El-P: Rush Over Brooklyn
If you can’t get down with Rush, you ain’t shit! El-P, who has a record coming out of Fat Possum (R.L. Burnside,T Model Ford, Black Keys,etc.) shortly, has done a […]
Category Archives: Sampling
Larry Achiampong – Meh Mogya (Sample of Me)
I get an awful lot of submissions here at FMF. In fact, I get many submissions that totally miss the mark. Either people don’t read, have never read my reviews, […]
DJ Mehdi – Loukoums
By now you all have heard about the untimely death of French DJ/Producer and Ed Banger staple DJ Mehdi at 34 years young. Peanut Butter Wolf released this today via […]
Ronnie Laws & Pressure – Tell Me Something Good
I’ve been digging deep in my crates this week people, just looking for some stuff to sample as well as for a new mix. I have revisted some old gems, […]
Is It Because I Blew It? Shame on You Kanye.
Elvis did it. The Rolling Stones did it. Led Zeppelin did it. They all did it and got away with it. From the Mississippi Delta to the Deep South, decades […]
Anatomy of a Sample: Al Hirt
I love that I found this in some antique store with a grip of CTI releases. Let’s take it back to ’94, Gangsta Rap is still in full effect, W’s […]
Kid Capri All 45 Set at Crotona Park
Capri is a legend, and barreling through these 45’s at lightning speed, he kept the spirit and true meaning of “Doin’ it in the Park”. Just how exactly did I […]
Chuck D: NOTIS aka Know This
If you’re reading this now, you all have been privy to the phenomenon known as “Otis”. That’s Kanye and Jay Z’s Watch the Throne sampling possibly the best Soul singer […]
R.I.P. Gene McDaniels
If you ask many crate diggers or DJ’s, Eugene McDaniels Headless Heroes of the Apacolypse is the holy grail of grails as far as records go. Sampled by a plethora […]
Small Professor – Elderly Jawns
Dilla became the king of the short beat tape. No longer was it necessary to loop 5 minutes of “Impeach the President” or the Touissant version of “Get Out My […]
Flea Market Funk 