Watching Me Watching You

Black Moon: Duress
From: War Zone (Priority, 1999)

Beatnuts: Niggaz Know
From: Stone Crazy (Relativity, 1997)

Odub over at Solesides has been spreading the circle of blog love recently by bouncing off other blog's posts so today I'm returning the love using his recent post on the Electric Prunes General Confessional as inspiration with two tracks that heavily sample the classic original.

The first track is from the ever reliable and way too often forgotten Black Moon. A great example of not messing with the perfect loop, Da Beatminerz use the organ chords of General Confessional to create a smooth roller of a backing track for the MCs to flow over. This a fine example of the school of thinking that when a loop is this nice why screw with it, a path also followed by the Beatnuts on their track Niggaz Know.

Not even going as far as sampling into the main track, the Beatnuts use the grandiose introduction of Grand Confessional to scintillating effect. Displaying their customary respect for the sampled original the Beatnuts allow the original loop to rotate untainted numerous times before eventually bringing in the beat and rhymes.

While both decent samples of the Axelrod original there's still undoubtedly much more to be made with the original stone cold classic.