Beat Breakdown - Runnin by The Pharcyde (prod. J Dilla) 

You think this is crazy listen to Don't Cry. He chopped up that beat by ear he legit was not from this planet lol

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Shawn Wavy man i agree! !!!

Shawn Wavy The Greatest Ever!!!

That's probably the best sample flip of all time

+Kompayaa It's been sample or covered over 25 times and IMO exposed the masses to J Dilla. J Dilla, arguably one of hip hop's most influential music makers paved the way for conscious rap and r&b. There's not a modern hip hop producer whose work wasn't influenced by Dilla (he's like the James Brown of hip hop) and this song helped solidify the foundation of deep crate digging for samples. IMHO

Runnin' introduced me to J DIlla. The lyrics and the beat fit so well with each other. This kind of showed me how far some producers search to sample things, which is really great, because it allows for these sick beats to be made.

This song was actually played a lot on the radio in chicago (1995), so for that reason alone I feel like lots of people heard this song who were alive back then. But nobody really realized the importance of producers back then (IMO) I feel like pharcyde took all the credit for the beat (not intentionally, just by default because most hiphop fans didnt recognize the importance of producers). Later on, with slum village, there was internet articles describing Jay Dee as "the producer everyone's heard but that nobody actually knows about." So, many people went on living without really knowing about Jay Dee, until the 2000s with Slum Village (and even this, Jay Dee started to become a little famous only until the second album). And in between all this, Dilla didn't get the recognition for most of his stuff like tribe called quest beats he did, etc. I agree though, I was 10 years old when Runnin came out, and I fell in love w this beat, man (especially the saxaphone part).

@@ShonTolliverMusic By conscious you mean "Neo-Soul"

I’d say tribe called quest (or q-tip) changed hip hop

agreed

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@@LOUCABRASI 48 today

There is no time stretching on the MPC3000 though

@@typtyp4486 3000 came out in 1994 so it could be mpc60 or sp1200

I wonder what was the bass line sample when a rapper says "It's 1995..." in a middle of the song.

I helped him find it!

@@typtyp4486 probably on the 2000 XL?

+MrBasketballMD you're welcome dr basketballs

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JoeMckeown there's SO MANY factors it would be nearly impossible to get it exactly the same

John The Third Nope. It’s the guitar riff time stretched and low passed.

JPEG prod. No, it’s from the guitar part with a low pass filter

@@drakefeet2_ ian't this snake dead?

outkast doesn't use very much sampling. A few tracks off atliens are sample based but a lot of their stuff is all instrumentation over programmed drums

YESSSS! ELEVATORS!!! The People have spoken!

Shit, Ha!

Matt Morris L for even attempting to give me an L.

Matt Morris..... I have work in the morning

Matt Morris nah keep the L tonight and try to give it to me tomorrow

Matt Morris nah I don't have any space for it at my house, just toss it in your personal pile of L's

Matt Morris nah I rented a studio apartment last month.... Just keep the L bruh early Christmas gift

agreed

+NEVU much appreciated

+FittedHeat thanks ted

Brian Yoshida Nope. It’s the guitar riff time stretched and low passed.

Rustled Jimmies Y E S !

Kanye produced that? I didn't even know

+Soloryo PLEASE!!!

+Soloryo but that's so easy. just the sample by itself

@@Patritz I didn't even know that was a sample. I thought that was Kanye playing keys IRL.

I actually did that one. The sample comes from On Your Own by Lalah Hathaway.

jdilla died in 06

+raniely candelario that's dope I never know what it was called

+Areeb Hassan sorry do you mean the song 'biscuits and gravy'

+Sandurz hahaha

+Areeb Hassan Unfortunately they brought in a guitarist live to play that beat its not sampled according to mike Dean.

+Jason Fevrier You know the truth bro, straight up resampled for rights. And his drums had crazy samples......never just 1 kick, snare and hi hat.

If u look up what happened to him there’s a reddit thread where he replies saying that he feels burnt out and wants to work on his own stuff

+Damien Rogers oh definitely! his Moog basses were always the sickest! this was back when he sampled all his basslines before he busted out the synths. Preciate it!