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”
8 comments
Zilla Rocca says:
September 19, 2008 at 7:36 am (UTC -7)
Very cool, my friend! I just smashed a chick last weekend with “Love & Happiness” album playing heavy in the background! THANK YOU AL GREEN!
Thomas says:
September 19, 2008 at 10:12 am (UTC -7)
Fresh cream indeed. Definitely one of the year’s best.
Jordan says:
September 19, 2008 at 11:11 am (UTC -7)
So Rakim sampling I’m Glad You’re Mine on Mahogany didn’t make the cut? How? Why?
Dart_Adams says:
September 19, 2008 at 2:53 pm (UTC -7)
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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Tray says:
September 19, 2008 at 3:44 pm (UTC -7)
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?
Ray Jackson says:
September 21, 2008 at 12:42 pm (UTC -7)
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.
antipop says:
September 22, 2008 at 12:16 pm (UTC -7)
Isn’t “good to you” a Talib Kweli joint?
Passion of the Weiss says:
September 23, 2008 at 12:26 pm (UTC -7)
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.