Jeedo gives the rundown on Dilla’s One from Welcome 2 Detroit for Bling 47 Breaks Dilla Edition. Take a look at Waajeed’s face. That’s a common expression you’ll find from the video once you watch. The track under the spotlight this time around is One from J Dilla’s debut (under that name), Welcome 2 Detroit. …
James Blake’s haunting Retrograde has equally eerie visuals. There seems to be a trend of music videos becoming their own little short films, what with Flying Lotus seemingly having the monopoly but James Blake isn’t far behind. Retrograde is a mysterious cinematic affair, starting with a meteor falling from the sky, a strange biker figure …
Karriem Riggins reminsces about Dilla and plays through one of his own tracks. In remembrance of Dilla’s birthday on 7th, Karriem Riggins sat down with Peanut Butter Wolf and J.Rocc at Iron Works Studios in Eagle Rock to discuss the legendary producer’s work and perform J Dilla the Greatest, a joint of his last album …
Check out this interview with King I Divine and Sampleface’s very own LD Henriquez in London. 2012 was a great year for King I Divine, dropping two brilliant collab projects with ScienZe and our very own LD Henriquez, with whom he shared an interview late last year. Divine speaks candidly on music, what it means …
Black Milk takes us on a brief tour of his studio set up and shows us his MPC skills in this week’s Saturday Matinée. Black Milk is one of my favourite MC/producers of the past decade, with albums like Popular Demand, The Tronic and Album Of The Year as well as his beats for Phat …
We take a look at the classic Dilla-produced track, Stakes Is High, by De La Soul on Day 5 of 28 Days Of Dilla. I decided to post this one just because it’s been stuck in my head since J Dilla Changed My Life on Sunday. Having worked with A Tribe Called Quest on Beats, …
You’re gonna wanna peep this J Dilla interview from 2003 for Day 3 of 28 Days Of Dilla. Interviews of normally quiet musicians are almost mesmerising because you get to hear what they’re thinking directly from the source as opposed to through their music – what they think of music today, what drives them, how …
Marvin Gaye’s amazing performance of Let’s Get It On in Montreux is our Throwback Thursday this week.
A random discovery while on YouTube produced something pretty cool, involving Flying Lotus and Gene Kelly on roller skates.
Happy birthday to The God Emcee, Rakim! Today is the 45th birthday of William Michael Griffin Jr., better known by his stage name Rakim. Arguably one of the greatest emcees to ever rock the mic, his years with Eric B. gave us classic albums such as their critically acclaimed debut Paid in Full and the follow up Follow The Leader. It would be another …
With Alicia Keys singing the National Anthem for at the Superbowl next month, we take a look at the top 10 worst national anthem performances. To sing your country’s national anthem in front of millions is nerve wracking. It really sets the tone, whether it’s for the Superbowl in the USA or a football (soccer) match …
Motel Eola provides a video for Before Rap (The Visual Experience). Clips from Hey Arnold! are the best but when they’re in a beat video, that’s when you know someone has good taste in cartoons. Motel Eola is that someone, having chosen the visuals for Before Rap (The Visual Experience), a track of his last album Kids Looking …
We watch Jamiroquai keeping it live and funky in 1995 on this week’s Throwback Thursday. It was Jamiroquai front man Jay Kay’s birthday a couple of weeks ago and at the age of 43, he’s still going strong with the band who are currently working on a new album. For this week’s Throwback Thursday, we …
New York trio Stray Phrases perform J Dilla’s Donuts live in its entirety on this week’s Saturday Matinée. Covers of hip hop tracks are commonplace in music and jazz covers of hip hop are getting more popular but this one may have a special place in the hearts of Dilla fans (maybe even alongside Suite …
Sampleface favourite RKZ’s starts the new year off with a superb video for his track Superstars featuring the delectable Sian Sanderson. Happy new year to you all! We couldn’t think of anything better to kick 2013 off than the new video from RKZ. While his mixtape Words of Adrenaline is picking up steam, he dropped …
Languid’s trip to Amsterdam produced a superb Dilla flip and an awesome video. Recently, UK-based producer Languid took a trip to Amsterdam for some much needed R&R (records and records) and as a souvenir, he brought back this beautiful Dilla flip and video to go with it. The best part is it features on the Pragmatic …
Here’s the video for The Throwaway starring the Yancey Boys, Frank Nitt and the city of LA. We finally have some visuals to go with The Yancey Boys’ (Illa J and J Dilla) posthumous track, The Throwaway. If you haven’t heard the track already or don’t know about the background, it was an unreleased track …
Cheesy TV album commercials are the best is but it’s our Throwback Thursday this week. If you have cable, you may have seen a really long commercial with some black couples talking about their favourite love songs and selling this love songs box set (if anyone remembers it and can find the video somewhere, I …
The Broken Orchestra recorded an acoustic version of their track In The Same Way. Since releasing Shibui, their debut album on Phonosaurus Records, The Broken Orchestra have been busy promoting. Fortunately, the Hull-based group found time to invite vocalist Lauren Jade and guitarist Jeff Parsons into the studio to record an acoustic version of In The Same …
Jason Rose on Man Bites Dog Records debuts his new video featuring Roc Marciano. Early this year, Man Bites Dog Records released a compilation called The Swashbuckler Vol. 1: The Viking Wars. With production predominately by Kount Fif and R.M.L., the feature list reads like the Who’s Who of underground hip hop talent: Copywrite, Roc …
