Saturday, January 1, 2011

The Firm's Desperados Sample - Dune by Wasis Diop

Save for a couple of tracks, The Firm's "The Album" was a pretty solid album. I never could understand why people said 'the firm flopped' according to Dr. Dre.

Maybe it was the whole "mobster concept" of the album but I found it was pretty banging. Standout tracks included the singles Firm Biz and Phone Tap as well as Five Minutes to Flush, Untouchable and the Canibus featured Desperados.

The beats were banging and you can't go wrong with lyrical giants like Nas, AZ and Nature. Foxy Brown is much better than Nicki Minaj in my opinion but...

Anyway, today's sample of the day is Desperados which samples a song called Dune by Senegalese musician, Wasis Diop. Dune is a 1993 song from the soundtrack to a Senegalese movie called Hyenes.

Desperados



Dune

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When I first created this blog, I did it because I loved listening to songs and finding connections to other songs. I wanted to put them on a blog so that others could find these same connections and we could probably discuss them.

Then I found WhoSampled.com, which I think is the best website out of the many that have sample databases. WhoSampled links the connections in much the same way I wanted to have them, allowing for discussions and also allowing you to see other connections such as covers and remixes.

I've been on WhoSampled for over a year now and it's become kind of addicting. I'm one of the top 10 contributors over there and have submitted and discovered lots of great connections.

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