Old School: Sampled Memories

Random thought....

Practically every generation of hip hop listeners over 25 remembers a time when they thought the music they were listening to at the time was their 'golden age'. A time when all the music that they heard was amazing and perfect. Real or imagined it felt perfect to all of us. We often use that 'golden age' as the standard for which we compare all music we hear.

I like a lot of old school music from different genres and eras (Temptations, Sam Cooke, Dramatics, Manhattans, Coltrane, etc..) Because of it I often find myself staying up late at night listening to old songs that are sampled in hip hop today. There is an art to it that I find fascinating and I respect anyone that does it especially well.

While on whosampled.com, I ran into one of my favorite samples of the late Gil Scott Heron, Home Is Where The Hated Is sampled on Kanye West's classic Late Registration. That beat and Heron's voice haunt me into a trance while listening. Thank God Common did it justice. I felt a little robbed by the length. I knew his name. I knew his music without realizing it. The beautiful thing about music is that you don't have to dig to deep to find the connections. I say all this to say if you are passionate about something, keep learning about it.

 

                                                  

Good music is out there. R.I.P to a legend.

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