LA Weekly: Like Fresh Cream-Al Green Teams With The Roots and Hip-Hop’s Greatest Al Green Samples
In advance of his show Saturday night at the Greek Theater, I interviewed Al Green for LA Weekly. Needless to say, I’ve experienced few things more surreal than talking to Al Green on the phone and hearing him spontaneously break into song. It was rather awesome. In addition, I wrote a shorter Wu-centric piece on Hip-Hop’s Greatest Al Green samples.
Minor programming note: I’ll be in New York all next week, so expect posting to be lighter than the content on a Mims record.
LA Weekly: Like Fresh Cream-Al Green Teams Up With The Roots
LA Weekly: Hip-Hop’s Greatest Al Green Samples
Download:
MP3: Al Green-”Simply Beautiful”
MP3: Talib Kweli-”Good to You”
MP3: Al Green-”The Letter”
MP3: Capone-N-Noreaga-”LA LA”
MP3: The Notorious BIG-”Long Kiss Goodnight”
MP3: Al Green-”Gotta Find a Whole New World”
MP3: Ghostface Killah-”Iron Maiden”
Stumble It!
September 19th, 2008 at 7:36 am
Very cool, my friend! I just smashed a chick last weekend with “Love & Happiness” album playing heavy in the background! THANK YOU AL GREEN!
September 19th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Fresh cream indeed. Definitely one of the year’s best.
September 19th, 2008 at 11:11 am
So Rakim sampling I’m Glad You’re Mine on Mahogany didn’t make the cut? How? Why?
September 19th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Hey Weiss! Did you catch my last blog where I did a number of bloggers and their blogs and gave them Marvel Comics counterparts? Wait until you see who you were! Check it out here:
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/09/dart-adams-presents-livications.html
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September 19th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
LA LA, I feel, is one of the few classic soul samples that improves on the original source material. Is that basically the only thing Marley Marl did in the mid-90s?
September 21st, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Nice interview.
Al Green is a legend…nice to see him getting his props at this stage of his career.
Only thing is i wish he would’ve been more specific in his answer about listening to hip hop. I’d a been real curious to know which groups/rappers he digs the most.
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Isn’t “good to you” a Talib Kweli joint?
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Yeah, it has it correctly in the actual article. It was late when I was writing this entry, Kanye made the beat. Past 2:00 a.m things get jumbled. Thanks for catching the mix-up.