Subway Guy's Sample of the Week

MF DOOM has been a bit dormant the last couple years, but I read a good interview with him in Wax Poetics a couple months back and he assures everyone that he's in a good place right now, and always working on some new music.

MF DOOM - Deep Fried Frenz


Ronnie Laws - Friends & Strangers
(check the sample at 1:07)


Whodini - Friends


Ooh, and while on the subject of MF Doom, I should mention that I just watched the movie Gladiator a couple weeks ago, and there is a part where Russell Crowe puts on a the MF Doom mask to fight with.


I got pretty excited about that!

Subway Guy's Sample of the Week

In 1972, the Canadian rock/pop group Skylark released their song "Wildflower", which went to Number Eight on the Billboard Top Ten and sold over a million copies.



And in 1973, soul-jazz saxophonists Hank Crawford cut an album for CTI titled Wildflower that included a cover version of the Skylark hit.



Many years later, Hank Crawford's version of "Wildflower" went on to be sampled by these rapper artists listed below.

Tupan Shankur - Shooty gonna see a Doug
Him'n'Them - Know Anne Riller?
Kennye Wess - Take It Slow