Butter Team Weekend Beats Vol. 38 (right-click to DL mp3)
Jay-Z - 99 Problems (Dap Kings Remix)
Gang Starr feat. Nice & Smooth - DWYCK
P.M. Dawn - Set Adrift On Memory Bliss
Blondes - Paradise City
Radiohead - Nudez (AmpLive Remix feat. Too Short)
Hieroglyphics - You Never Knew (Domino Remix)
Notorious B.I.G. - If You See Me (feat. Lil Wayne)
Jorts outro
NYC writer/DJ Jon Oliver recently featured Hieroglyphic's "You Never Knew" from their 1998 debut Third Eye Vision, and although the original is indeed a summer stoop classic, Hiero member/manager/beatmaker Domino's 2007 remix is way better. Make sure you grab that along with the original sample from Dom-produced "At the Helm" below, because as Pep Love says, "Those that know not doze, and it shows."
Hieroglyphics - You Never Knew (Domino Remix) (from Over Time, 2007)
Domino produced many of the songs on Third Eye Vision except "You Never Knew," but he kicked off b-side/rarities comp Over Time with this upgraded backpack banger almost ten years later. Crew leader Del tha Funkee Homosapien jumps in over a scratch break at the two minute mark: "Del - been rhyming for more than a decade - onto the next stage while MCs need aid - stay paid, I'm still grade A - none of that tomfoolery as you you can see this shit ain't nothing new to me." Since the original verse was already more than ten years old, we know Cube's cousin started flowing well before most kids started driving (his solo debut dropped when he was 18).
Southside Movement - I've Been Watching You (from Moving South, 1975)
Hieroglyphics - At the Helm (from Third Eye Vision, 1998)
RJD2 - Raised in the Ghetto (from Your Face or Your Kneecaps, 2001)
Unlike Pure Essence, Southside Movement's powerhouse funk was well known throughout Chicago (and the nation) in the mid 70s. The first minute of "I've Been Watching You," with an icy electric piano bit dripping over fuzzy guitars, stomping basslines, horn blasts, etc. was a perfect grab for "At the Helm." RJD2's instrumental redux (around 3:15) also includes a Jethro Tull mashup of "Pistol Grip Pump," The Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band, Double Trouble, and three different versions of Sly & the Family Stone's "Sing a Simple Song."
Got at least 8 Courics worth of beats here - so put some Dulcolax on toast, take a sip of potion and hit that three wheel motion on yer Rascal mobility scooter.
Whitest Boy Alive - Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix)
Dgenerate Nation - Skate With Me
Hieroglyphics - You Never Knew (Domino Remix)
Spank Rock - Rick Rubin (President Eutl remix)
Cut Copy - Kidz at the Disco
Next week we start a contest for superfierce limited edition Cut Copy goodies (including a Corey Delaney-autographed copy of In Ghost Colours and cutters 3-D glasses), but you can enter now just by signing up for weekly updates on the right.
Previously on Weekend Beats
You want to see that real ass shaking for a couple hours straight? Afrobeat's favorite Nigerian son Femi Kuti goes beng beng beng all over the 9:30 Club tonight (tickets are still on sale). And the 12 year old cat on the alto sax is Kuti Jr, so. Enjoy a few classics from Femi, his pop Fela and Nigeria's third most popular band (not to be confused with New Zealand's fourth most popular folk parody duo) below. Make some banana pancakes on this and try to be in a bad mood (from the window you might look a bit Beetlejuice but no worries).
Femi Kuti - Beng Beng Beng
Femi Kuti - Blackman Know Yourself
Fela Kuti - Shenshema
King Sunny Ade - Ma Jaiye Oni
A few Hieroglyphics classics :
Handsome Boy Modeling School feat. Del and De La Soul - The Projects
Souls of Mischief - 93 Til Infinity
Hieroglyphics -You Never Know (Domino remix)
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