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[MarcosIsAGreatGuy @bigbrainmarcos]

once you're corny, you're on the cob forever

[MarcosIsAGreatGuy @bigbrainmarcos]

@MarvelRivals 3 skins for my main WE UP

[A Random Gorillaz Song Daily @gorillaz_random]

Name: M1 A1
Year: 2001
Album: Gorillaz

[ash 🌙 @LoonieLunas]

frank langdon kinda me after i take an ibuprofen fr

[drea @antlervivi]

I JUST MADE SOME BULLSHIT!!!!!

[MarcosIsAGreatGuy @bigbrainmarcos]

@Layn_space doncamatic and let me out mentioned🗣 (honorables go to Hong Kong, Latin Simone, and People)

[Layn @Layn_space]

Gorillaz has me singing in languages I never would have expected to

[Zach Fuller @zachtothefuller]

I think @maximilian_ nailed generative AI right on the head

[Lei @Leisrevolution]

Probably one of the best things to make it out of the 2000’s

[The Art of Sampling @Art_of_Sampling]

Gang Starr - “Mass Appeal”

“Mass Appeal” was a turning point for DJ Premier. I remember the first time I heard “Mass Appeal.” It was on Gang Starr’s 1994 album, ‘Hard to Earn.’ I played this song over and over. Serious repeat!

What caught my attention the most was how Premier chopped the sample, and then arranged it in a way that the ends exploded every time the loop turned over.

What’s more, at the point where the loop turns, there isn’t a dominate kick, which was typical of most hip hop/rap songs of that period.

The absence of the kick on the loop turning point convinced me that Premier was in the midst of a sound change. Having heard his beatwork on ‘Illmatic’ just a couple of months before, I was wondering if his beats would be in the same vein or take a different direction.

Two songs into ‘Hard to Earn,’ I knew Premier was going for a new sound. And what tipped me off was his experimentation with his drums.

I was paying extra close attention to Premier’s use of the kick drum. Specifically, I was studying the ways in which he was starting to “relax” the punch of his kicks while still coming up with non-conventional drum frameworks.

On “Mass Appeal,” it was if Premier had challenged himself to devise a moderately syncopated kick pattern underneath a deceptively simple sample arrangement.

If you listen to “Mass Appeal,” pay careful attention to how the end of the sample seems to speed up. Truth is, it doesn’t. By chopping the end of the sample the way he did, and by easing up on the attack (the front-end) of the sample, an otherwise simple 1-bar measure is transformed into something akin to break in a record being “pushed” forward by the DJ.

And what makes this all more complex than most people realize is the fact that the tempo — which stays the same throughout — is managed thoroughly by the kick pattern and shuffling hat pattern.

[O.T.G @ParisEighty]

Can I Kick It? · A Tribe Called Quest · 1990

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

De La Soul’s Tiny Desk is now out 🔥

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

A Tribe Called Quest — “Scenario”

[Pizzazz @pizza227129]

gorillaz came back at such a harrowing time for humanity with some of the most soulful, potent pieces of art that is just dripping with passion and inspiration and love and it makes me feel a little hopeful that maybe humanity isnt entirely declining :)

[McRib @McR1B69]

We are Charlie/Pim
We work for the boss
We fight for the smiles
We honor the Squim

[Where We Going, We Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @RPHutch1975]

Good night Shxitter
Art by Logan Baldock
#fuckice

[via @atrophicbtrfly]

the only good nazi is a dead nazi

[MarcosIsAGreatGuy @bigbrainmarcos]

@manlikemk_