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2023 may be behind us, but #HIPHOP50 has some months still to run! In celebration of the genre's 50th year, we've teamed up with London based ‘Classic Material’ to present a chronologically themed series of mixtapes celebrating the history of recorded Rap music, mixed by Chris Read. Alongside the Hip Hop series, this companion Breaks series takes our re-cap of Rap History a level deeper, this time reconstructing the classics of the Hip Hop canon from their constituent sample material. Arranged chronologically of course, this eigth volume pieces together popular Hip Hop tunes from the year of 1993, utilising only the Funk, Soul, Rock, Jazz and Disco tracks from which they were originally constructed - over 125 breaks in the mix! Artwork pays homage to Paul Winley's iconic 'Super Disco Brakes' compilation series.

Tracklist:

1. Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Blacknuss [Extract] (Sampled by Digable Planets - Appointment at the Fat Clinic)
2. Chris Hinze - Easy Awakening (Sampled by The Beatnuts - Story)
3. The Beastie Boys - Paul Revere [Extract] (Sampled Sampled by The Beatnuts - Story)
4. Young Holt Unlimited - Please Sunrise, Please (Sampled by Fat Joe - Shorty Got a Fat Ass)
5. Cypress Hill - Stoned is the Way of the Walk [Extract] (Sampled by Cypress Hill - I Wanna Get High)
6. Junior Parker - Taxman (Sampled by Cypress Hill - I Wanna Get High)
7. Grasella Oliphant - Get Out of My Life, Woman (Sampled by Cypress Hill -What Go Around Come Around, Kid / Fat Joe - The Shit Is Real)
8. Cypress Hill - How I Could Just Kill A Man [Extract] (Sampled by Cypress Hill -What Go Around Come Around, Kid)
9. Cypress Hill - Hand On The Clock [Extract] (Sampled by Cypress Hill -What Go Around Come Around, Kid)
10. Black Rock & Ron - That's How I'm Livin' [Extract] (Sampled by Fat Joe - The Shit Is Real)
11. Main Source - Fakin The Funk [Extract] (Sampled by Fat Joe - The Shit Is Real)
12. The Mad Lads - Get Out of My Life Woman [Loop] (Sampled by Fat Joe - The Shit Is Real)
13. Busy Bee & Rodney Cee – MC Battle [Extract] (Sampled by A Tribe Called Quest - Sucka Nigga)
14. Jack Wilkins – Red Clay (Sampled by A Tribe Called Quest - Sucka Nigga)
15. Bob James – Nautlilus [Loop] (Sampled by A Tribe Called Quest - Clap Your Hands)
16. The Meters – Handclapping Song (Sampled by A Tribe Called Quest - Clap Your Hands)
17. Gladys Knight & The Pips - The Way We Were (Try to Remember) [Extract] (Sampled by Wu Tang Clan - Can It Be All So Simple)
18. The Charmels - As Long As I've Got You (Sampled by Wu Tang Clan - Cash Rules Everything Around Me)
19. Jimmy Spicer - Money (Dollar Bill Y'all) [Extract] (Sampled by Wu Tang Clan - Cash Rules Everything Around Me)
20. Barry White – Playing Your Game [Loop] (Sampled by Black Moon - I Got Cha Opin (Remix))
21. Grover Washington Jr. – Hydra (Sampled by Black Moon - How Many MCs)
22. Boogie Down Productions – My Philosophy [Extract] (Sampled by Black Moon - How Many MCs)
23. Johnnie Taylor – Love In The Streets (Ain’t Good As Love At Home) (Sampled by De La Soul -  3 Days Later)
24. Five Stairsteps – Don’t Change Your Love [Loop] (Sampled by De La Soul - 3 Days Later)
25. Ohio Players - Pride & Vanity (Sampled by Fat Joe - Da Fat Gangsta)
26. Diamond D & The Psychotic Neurotics - A View from the Underground (Sampled by Fat Joe - Da Fat Gangsta)
27.Gene Russell - Get Down (Sampled by House of Pain - Who's The Man)
28. The Coasters - Soul Pad [Extract] (Sampled by House of Pain - Who's The Man)
29. Melvin Bliss - Synthetic Substitution [Loop] (Sampled by Wu Tang Clan - Clan In Da Front)
30. The New Birth - Honeybee (Sampled by Wu Tang Clan - Clan In Da Front)
31. Extract from the movie Shaolin & Wu Tang (Sampled by Wu Tang Clan - Clan In Da Front)
32. The Peasant Brothers - New Orleans [Loop] (Sampled by The Beatnuts - On The 1 + 2)
33. Clyde McPhatter - Mixed Up Cup [Loop] (Sampled by A Tribe Called Quest - Lyrics To Go)
34. Don Covay - If There's A Will There's A Way (Sampled by Akinyele - I Luh Huh)

Continued...

#HIPHOP50: Classic Material The Breaks #8 (1993) mixed by Chris Read

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Mortality Is Lit!

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**NEW ALBUM: lnk.to/PUTS : This track was recorded in 2008-2009 in between Fun DMC and Carried Away. Because of potential sample issues and the heaviness of the topic it was filed away, only to see light again for this compilation after being relegated to a lost hard drive. Nevertheless, even at time of writing, this was a melancholy song that attempted to touch both ideas of social/geographical displacement and the tldr/cool story bro culture we live in.

It's worth noting that since this was written, downtown LA has kicked it's redevelopment into high gear and it is with no irony that there is now, actually a Whole Foods in downtown LA as per Thes One's first verse...  

This is track 4 of American Men Vol. 2 to be released one track at a time on Soundcloud. STAY TUNED!

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