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In here with Episode #4 of #UNPaws. This week, we try The Paws Tape Method on ‘Eye Know’ by De La Soul. Three Feet High and Rising is a gold mine for sample lovers, and this Hip Hop classic is THICK rich in Funk and Soul samples. RIP to Plug 2 and Big Ups to De La and the whole Native Tongues collective. “May it be filled with the pleasure principle in circumference to my voice” -Plug 2 Liner Notes: Track – Eye Know Album – Three Feet High and Rising Main Artist – De La Soul Producer – Prince Paul and De La Soul Sampled Artists – Lee Dorsey [drums]; Steely Dan [rhythm section; saxophone; vocals]; The Mad Lads [guitar; horns]; Otis Redding [whistle] @WeAreDeLaSoul @PlugWonDeLaSoul @DJMaseo @DJPrincePaul #EyeKnow #ThreeFeetHighAndRising #DeLaSoul #PlugOne #Posdnous #PlugWonderWhy #WonderBread #PlugTwo #Truguy #TruguyTheDove #Dave #PlugThree #DJMaseo #PAPaseMasterMase #PrincePaul #DrStrange #NativeTongues #OtisRedding #SteelyDan #LeeDorsey #TheMadLads #UNPaws #Backspin #Turntablism #Scratching #Beatjuggling #Sampling #HipHop #HipmeansToKnow

Introducin' 'West Philly 187'. Rock with this and more raw heat from the new album, 'Rise of Corleone' by @king_shampz. Available now on all major streamin' platforms. #WestPhilly187 #KingShampz #WestPhilly #RiseOfCorleone #HipmeansToKnow

BUM! -@kendricklamar #HubCity #JoeCooley #RodneyO #Michel'le #E40 #BLegit #TheClick #EazyE #DrDre #NWA #Future #MetroBoomin #HipmeansToKnow

Back at it with Episode #3 of #UNPaws. This week, we hit one last single off of the Hard to Earn album: ‘Code of the Streets’. For this gem of a beat, DJ Premier isolates and flips a bar from the Bernard Purdie drum break on Melvin Bliss’ ‘Synthetic Substitution’, a #Funk classic that boasts hundreds of sample cameos throughout the halls of Hip Hop. Layered on top of the #BoomBap is a choice two-bar loop sampled from Monk Higgins’ ‘Little Green Apples’, plus a slice of the intro from Boogie Down Productions’ ‘Word from our Sponsor’. Along with the slick scratches, the drum pattern was definitely a fun challenge for a turntablist to figure out on the one’s and two’s. “It’s the #Code of the Streets..” -Guru Liner Notes: Track – Code of the Streets Album – Hard to Earn Main Artist – Gang Starr Producer – DJ Premier DJ – DJ Premier MC – Guru Samples – Word from our Sponsor, by Boogie Down Productions [sound EFX sample]; Little Green Apples, by Monk Higgins [mid-section and bass sample]; Synthetic Substitution, by Melvin Bliss [drums] BDay Shout Out to the one and only – P- P- P- P-Premier! Premier! Premierrr.. @GangStarr @DJPremier @Guru.Jazzmatazz @BigShugGangStarr @Teacha_KRSONE @OfficialBDPONE @DNice @DJKennyParker #CodeOfTheStreets #HardToEarn #GangStarr #DJPremier #Guru #BigShug #BoogieDownProductions #BDP #KRSONE #KRS1 #BlastMastaKRS #DJScottLaRock #DNice #MsMelodie #KennyParker #MonkHiggins #BobWest #RonBrown #JohnGuerin #AlbertVescovo #ArthurAdams #FreddieRobinson #MilesGrayson #WilliamPeterson #DavidDuke #TomScott #JimHorn #AlanEstes #MelvinBliss #BernardPurdie #PrettyPurdie #UNPaws #Backspin #Turntablism #Scratching #Beatjuggling #Sampling #HipHop #HipmeansToKnow

Welcome to Episode #2 of #UNPaws. This is the second installment of a series that aims to break down and remake sample-based Hip Hop classics. In doin’ so, an even deeper goal is pursued, which is to highlight turntables as both instruments of musicianship as well as tools of composition. Continuin’ with the singles of Hard to Earn as tribute to its thirty-year reign as a classic Hip Hop album, this episode breaks down and remakes ‘Mass Appeal’, one of Gang Starr’s most signature tracks. DJ Premier samples a single bar of Barry Miles playin’ the keys on Vic Juris’ ‘Horizon Drive’, and it’s perhaps the simplicity of the sample and the straightforward chop that’s set it so deep in stone for so many Hip Hop Heads. The samplin’ of the drums, however, gets a bit more complex. Sampled from EPMD’s ‘You’re a Customer’, the kicks seem to loop with an Offset Backspin, plus a few Fills for a further flip. While it’s well known that Premier is an avid MPC wizard, I’d still bet his experience as a Turntablist informed the way he flipped them drums and initially came up with the pattern for the beat. To say the least, the production on this track fits the #Paws of a DJ like a hand to a glove. “But I’m so real to them it’s scary..” -Guru Liner Notes: Track – Mass Appeal Album – Hard to Earn Main Artist – Gang Starr Producer – DJ Premier DJ – DJ Premier MC – Guru Samples – Raw, by Big Daddy Kane [vocal sample]; Pass da Mic [Remix], by Da Youngstas [vocal sample]; Horizon Drive, by Vic Juris [keyboard and mid-section sample]; You’re a Customer, by EPMD [drums] Shout out to McCrae Wear [@McCraeWear] for the T-Shirt! @GangStarr @DJPremier @Guru.Jazzmatazz @BigShugGangStarr @DJMarleyMarl @DJMisterCee @OfficialBigDaddyKane @RealPeteRock @DaYoungstas_ @TajMahal60 @QuranGoodman @VicJurisJazz @BarryMiles43 @Erick_Sermon @PMD_Mic_Doc #MassAppeal #HardToEarn #GangStarr #DJPremier #Guru #BigShug #DJMarleyMarl #DJMisterCee #BigDa

Introducin’ #UNPaws, a series where turntables serve as the instruments they were never meant to be. Call it a nod to the Pause Tape Method, as well as an homage to choice tracks from way back when. In lieu of the Thirty Year Anniversary of Hard to Earn, this drop is a remake of the Gang Starr classic, ‘DWYCK’, featurin’ Nice & Smooth. Top tier production from DJ Premier, paired with the raw emceein’ of Greg Nice, Guru, and Smooth B. It’s no surprise that this track has stood the test of time given how everybody on it came with their A Game. Big Ups to all these legends, and RIP to Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal. “Lemonade was a popular drink, and it still is.” -Guru Liner Notes: Track – DWYCK Album – Hard to Earn Main Artist – Gang Starr Featured Artists – Nice & Smooth Producer – DJ Premier DJ – DJ Premier MC’s – Guru, Greg Nice, and Smooth B Samples – Synthetic Substitution, by Melvin Bliss [drums]; Hey Jude, by Clarence Wheeler and the Enforcers [bass] #HardToEarn #UNPaws #HipmeansToKnow

A Funky President Flip Big Ups to Serato and DJ Jazzy Jeff on this initiative! #ThankYouDJs #50YearsofHipHop #HipmeansToKnow