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Recommended Listening: Linda Lewis

May 04th, 2009

A few years ago when I was on tour with Kanye, his manager asked me to make a mix CD out of various songs sampled by Kanye. It was only released in Japan so lots of people never heard it, it was called Kanye’s Soul Mixshow. Far and away the best song on the CD was the original for Common “Go”: “Old Smokey” by Linda Lewis. I listened to it again this week and just had to share. The “Go” sample creeps in at the end, right around when you forget that you were actually listening for a Common loop. 

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September 03rd, 2006

I have two announcements to make.

First, I did a mixtape called “Kanye’s Soul Mixshow” (I didn’t pick the title) for this Japanese label and it just came out. I think it’s a Japan-only situation, but I wouldn’t be surprised if some CDs eventually showed up on our shores. The concept is pretty simple: it’s all soul records that Kanye has sampled. So the challenge was to take all these records that happen to be linked to Kanye’s catalogue and make a good, coherent mix out of it. I’m pretty happy with how it came out. Kanye hosted the whole thing. And it’s not some generic drops; he actually tells funny stories while the samples are playing. My favorite is during the Cam’Ron “Down & Out” sample, he goes into this whole thing about “this is my favorite beat that I didn’t really do”… You gotta track down the CD to get the scoop!

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