yea, al green is pretty well-known. nothin too obscure.
um, idk, like i said, first beat i ever did but i think at that time i sampled all the drums i used from the instrumentals of dr. dre's 2001 album. if not that then it was prolly a preset drum on the mpc500. i'll be lookin forward to july 09 beats. what do you use for your beats, just wonderin (mpc, frooty loops, etc.)? I use an mpc 500 (never use the presets anymore, almost all samples) and edit stuff in this program called Acoustica Mixcraft 4.