Lady Don’t Tek No Beat
Star Quality & Class – “Betcha Got A Dude On The Side“
from Betcha Got A Dude On The Side 12″ (R&R, 1982)
Latyrx – “Lady Don’t Tek No“
from Muzzappers Mixes EP (Solesides, 1999)
This is my first step to making a conscious effort to ocassionally post some legitimate old school hip hop on this shit. I always get frusturated when I see a link to this site on some hipster’s blog with a tagline like “taking it back to the old school”, when I very rarely post anything recorded before 1989. I mean, I guess a lot of what I post here is old, but that don’t make it old school, yaoming? Like how you gonna call Leaders of the New School old school? That just doesn’t work. Anyway, I can’t figure out if “Betcha Got A Dude On The Side” is a knock off of the Furious Five’s “Message” or if it just coincidentally replays the same/similar sample (and apparantly neither can scion hop* icon peanut butter wolf) Either way, it’s pretty hot and I’m sure I won’t ever be able to afford to buy the 12″ now that I’ve posted this. Not that I would have initially anyway.
17 years later DJ Shadow made gratuitious use of the Star Quality instrumental to create Lateef & Lyric Born’s “Lady Don’t Tek No”, a throwback ode to *that chick*, the one that likes Nikki Giovanni and Alice Walker.
Elsewhere:
I love this reasoning. “Not only am I not broke, I’m SOOO not broke that I’m spending $3 Million on my NEXT house”. Don’t worry baby, I’ll bump “B R Right” no matter how much money you have.
Houston So Real continues to be the most interesting blog I’ve ever read, adding an interview with original geto boys’ dj (and trenton transplant!) DJ Ready Red to the already impressive triumvirate of scarface/willie d/bushwick that matt’s posted.
* Before I have to field another string of “what the hell is scion hop?” questions, allow me to point you in the direction of the homie sergdun, who breaks it down quite nicely.
January 10th, 2005 at 11:53 pm
congratulations: i officially have no more mind left to blow. you have totally ruined my brain for all time. “dude on the side” AND lyrics born on the same day. life is so very good. thanks.
January 11th, 2005 at 1:40 am
So, is it safe to assume that Salt N Pepa’s “Chick On The Side” from Hot, Cool, & Vicious is a response to the Star Quality track?
January 11th, 2005 at 4:53 am
I’ve been looking for something to call those kids for years ever since I went to college in Cali. Now you gave me Scionists. Everyone I met would rave about the fucking Living Legends and Heiroglyphics while saying that Biggie “just isn’t their thing.”
January 11th, 2005 at 6:40 am
Man i was a scionist when i got introduced to the SF underground in 97. My finds started out with LL, Hobo Junction, etc. and they have branched out farther than i thought. Everyone has to start out a scionist at one time but it’s the heads that stay a scionist that are wack.
This website keeps it flowin’.
January 11th, 2005 at 9:50 am
Shit, I had always thought that they just played about with the message sample rather than it being a whole nother track.
January 11th, 2005 at 5:13 pm
Brilliant as always. That’s all I can say.
Cheers
January 11th, 2005 at 6:54 pm
yo when is your next playlist coming?
January 11th, 2005 at 10:01 pm
next playlists when the next radio show is… uh… i think one or two weeks from friday
January 12th, 2005 at 3:20 am
Dude, serious, serious props for dropping the Star Quality and Class. There’s supposedly a Panache single which is basically just the instrumental – have you heard anything about this?
January 12th, 2005 at 5:55 pm
These tracks are very cool. Well done. I never considered “The Message” to even have used a sample and even said so coincidentally yesterday to one of my students at the high school who was listening to “Check Yo Self”.
January 12th, 2005 at 6:32 pm
hua – never heard the panache track in question but it would make sense due to the r&r connection.
January 14th, 2005 at 11:42 pm
According to RIME magazine’s (not sure what month, I think October, possibly November; MOBB DEEP on the the cover)article “To Sample Or Not To Sample?”: “‘The Message’ was an original music composition produced and played live by the great Sugarhill session musician Duke Bootee.”(pg. 85)
And, in case you don’t know, cocaineblunts.com is also featured in “The Web Review” of the this edition on pg. 20. “Hip-Hop purists rejoice, for I have found your sancuary…”
Now you know.