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Topic subjectdamn.
Topic URLhttp://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=5&topic_id=2983827&mesg_id=2985487
2985487, damn.
Posted by Small Pro, Sat Mar-11-17 01:16 PM
>some post on okp got me re-listening to the Main Ingredient
>(I listen a few times every year, actually). on the track
>"It's on you" pete samples a few lines from EPMD and loops it
>through-out. Specifically a few of Erick's lines from
>Strictly Business.
>
>The 'Loop' as it appears on " It's On You" :
>
>They smile in my face, behind my back they talk trash
>Mad and stuff, because they don't have cash
>When I roll I stroll, cool always pack a tool
>Just in case, a brother acts a fool
>
>However. these lines are not all connected in the original
>EPMD song. Pete joined them to feel like they were always
>originally together.
>
>I know Premo does this often as well. But what I love is that
>after 20 years of listening to this album, a new nuanced
>discovery gets uncovered.
>
>http://www.whosampled.com/sample/51843/Pete-Rock-%26-C.L.-Smooth-It%27s-on-You-EPMD-Strictly-Business/
>
>werd.