WHERE WE COMIN' FROM | SALUTE THE SAMPLE | ROCK THE BELLS

[00:00:02]If you like the joints we play all day, you got to salute the sample.

[00:00:05]>> Salute the sample.

[00:00:06]>> It's time to salute the sample. Uncle L, how you feeling today?

[00:00:09]>> great. I feel phenomenal. DJ Z-Trip on the one and twos.

[00:00:13]>> [crying] >> I like that sound. [laughter] If y'all loving the way we doing the salute the sample, put it in the comments.

[00:00:18]>> Yeah.

[00:00:19]>> You don't know, it's all YouTube. Where is that on YouTube, L?

[00:00:22]>> [laughter] >> Just go to Rock the Bells, right there.

[00:00:24]Rock the Bells channel. We good.

[00:00:25]>> the Bells channel on YouTube. No doubt.

[00:00:27]All of y'all out there that I see on the streets everywhere around the country didn't know that it was on YouTube that you could see us live. Go there now.

[00:00:35]Subscribe. Go to the YouTube page, Rock the Bells Salute the Sample, and rock out. Now, turn your radios up. We on.

[00:00:42]>> Good question. And also, yo, all y'all people riding around right now, download that SiriusXM app, you know what I'm saying? Make sure you subscribe to the channel.

[00:00:50]You know what I'm saying? Rock the Bells radio.

[00:00:53]Let them know you rocking [laughter] with us. You probably riding in a car with somebody right now who got Sirius.

[00:00:56]They might not have it. You need to have it in your car. You need to have the [laughter] app on your phone.

[00:01:00]>> Can't they get it on their phone as well?

[00:01:02]>> They can get it on their phone.

[00:01:03]>> Get it on your phone.

[00:01:04]>> Get it on your phone, man. Get it on your phone. You feel me?

[00:01:06]>> So, so Z-Trip, what you got for me, BABY? LET'S GO.

[00:01:09]>> [screaming] [music] >> DAMN.

[00:01:13]FROM ONE NOTE, YOU KNOW IT'S ON.

[00:01:16]>> THIS one's very much about one note.

[00:01:19]>> James Brown is funny.

[00:01:21]Get up off of that thing. Get up off of that thing.

[00:01:25]Release the pressure.

[00:01:27]1976.

[00:01:30]Get off. Get up off of that thing.

[00:01:32]RELEASE THE PRESSURE.

[00:01:35]THIS GUY RELEASING PRESSURE OVER HERE.

[00:01:38]>> [music] >> JAMES BROWN IS A MONSTER.

[00:01:42]Another production by James Brown.

[00:01:44]Unbelievable. [music] Polydor, 1976.

[00:01:50]>> [music] >> Get up off of that thing. He was straight rapping.

[00:01:55]>> [music] >> Straight up.

[00:01:58]In the cut.

[00:02:01]>> [music] >> ALL RIGHT, SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ONE NOTE, RIGHT?

[00:02:05]>> THAT'S SO FUNKY.

[00:02:07]>> YEAH, that one note.

[00:02:08]>> Here it comes.

[00:02:10]>> [music] [screaming] [music] [music] >> That horn is crazy.

[00:02:30]>> It sounds so familiar.

[00:02:32]It sounds so familiar.

[00:02:34]>> it down >> It sounds so familiar.

[00:02:39]>> Sounds very familiar, don't it?

[00:02:41]>> I Here's where Here's >> horn and I saw people throwing chairs at the Spectrum in Philly.

[00:02:46]>> [laughter] >> Here's where Here's where this horn >> 20,000 people.

[00:02:48]>> You hear it in a million places. Here's one of them.

[00:02:54]That's crazy.

[00:02:57]Right? Just a couple hits James Brown Right? It's one place.

[00:03:04]>> The party ain't over.

[00:03:05]>> No, it ain't over. There's a million of them over, but I I really want to I want to dial up this one because This is one where they kind of flexed on it a little bit.

[00:03:15]>> Yeah.

[00:03:17]>> But I'm going to let you hear it one more time.

[00:03:26]>> Yo, what's up Blastmaster KRS-One?

[00:03:30]Word. Yo, what up D Nice?

[00:03:32]>> Yo, what's up Scott La Rock?

[00:03:34]>> This is the cheap achiever snare right here.

[00:03:36]>> Yeah.

[00:03:36]>> Say, bro.

[00:03:39]Got that good cheap achiever too.

[00:03:41]Right on. To to the fill.

[00:03:44]>> [music] >> Boogie Down Productions, South Bronx.

[00:03:52]B-Boy Records, 1987. Produced by Scott La Rock. KRS-One and Ced Gee.

[00:03:56]>> Many people tell me this style is terrific. [music] It is kind of different, but let's get specific.

[00:04:01]KRS-One specializes in music. I'll only use this type of style when I choose it.

[00:04:06]Party people in the place to be, KRS-One.

[00:04:09]>> Wait till you use that stab, man. It's just one note. Actually like I like the It's one of the one of the records where I really like getting like getting shouted out on.

[00:04:19]That was cold. That was a good one.

[00:04:21]Where you was at when you heard it?

[00:04:24]You mean like in a car or something?

[00:04:26]I WAS LIKE, "OH, YOU JEALOUS?"

[00:04:29]BUT NO.

[00:04:29]>> [screaming] >> AND I WAS LIKE, "MHM."

[00:04:32]YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS.

[00:04:33]I PROMISE YOU. YOU WAS LIKE, >> [screaming] >> I've been out for years already.

[00:04:38]I promise you.

[00:04:39]When you first heard it?

[00:04:42]You was a screaming >> [music] >> No.

[00:04:46]>> [laughter] >> I WANT TO SAY YEAH, BUT I WAS JUST LIKE, "MHM." BUT I'm telling you. Yo, the other guy the solid Hold on. The other guy was screaming.

[00:04:56]It's more powerful than the scream. The other guy was screaming and I was like, "Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy."

[00:05:03]>> [music] >> This dude here criminal Watch this. Watch this. Watch how it switches up though.

[00:05:17]I love this dramatic change right here.

[00:05:20]Right here.

[00:05:24]One note.

[00:05:25]I know. That's Ced Gee right there, B.

[00:05:27]Ultramagnetic. That's that. I didn't know he did this.

[00:05:32]I went to the studio with Ced.

[00:05:34]I did the whole him doing the whole Criminal Minded album.

[00:05:38]I just saw him and Keith. Keith was telling me about how you guys used to hang. Go get Chinese food and watch karate movies.

[00:05:44]This is why though.

[00:05:46]See I had HEARD THAT FIRST.

[00:05:48]YOU SEE? [music] >> Now you understand? So I'm like So I'm like Cuz he said the Queens thing, so I'm like And then HE'S LIKE AND I'm like Now you see my response?

[00:06:08]He was like, "Oh, this dude is witty.

[00:06:10]Oh, WHO IS THIS? WHO IS THIS GUY?"

[00:06:13]>> HOLD ON, hold on. What about What about this Phil?

[00:06:15]>> What about >> [laughter] >> Yeah, that's what I was doing.

[00:06:17]>> What about this Phil?

[00:06:18]>> Even further.

[00:06:19]>> [music] >> God damn.

[00:06:22]And that's incredible, Set Gee.

[00:06:24]>> Play that again. Go back TO THAT AGAIN.

[00:06:29]>> DAMN, THAT'S INCREDIBLE.

[00:06:33]>> SB 12, probably, right?

[00:06:34]>> Yep.

[00:06:35]>> Definitely.

[00:06:37]>> Yo.

[00:06:39]>> Definitely.

[00:06:40]>> Yeah, yo, we got TO YOU KNOW WHAT?

[00:06:42]WE GOT to give some love to Set Gee, man.

[00:06:45]>> 1,000.

[00:06:45]>> Yes.

[00:06:47]Yo.

[00:06:48]Ultramagnetic.

[00:06:50]>> Yeah.

[00:06:50]>> Them beats.

[00:06:51]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:06:52]>> That production.

[00:06:55]Yo, Set Gee deserves [music and singing] his flowers.

[00:06:57]>> Man.

[00:06:59]Me, Keith, we all went to high school together.

[00:07:01]>> Oh, really?

[00:07:02]>> Set is my neighbor and Keith is my neighbor. Tim Dog is my neighbor.

[00:07:06]Yo.

[00:07:07]Yo, I love Tim Dog. Yo, that >> [laughter] >> I was listening to that joint about Compton, F Compton in the gym one day. I was like laughing about Yo, I said, "Yo, Tim Dog is a wild out." Tim Dog is a wild out.

[00:07:19]>> wild, man.

[00:07:20]>> He's a wild out, B.

[00:07:21]>> It was wild, man.

[00:07:22]>> He's a crazy thing.

[00:07:23]>> While that was on fire he was living out here.

[00:07:27]>> Oh, God.

[00:07:28]>> He was living right here.

[00:07:30]>> Well, I Well >> And nobody even know it was him.

[00:07:33]>> [laughter] >> Well, all I'mma tell him is congratulations on making it through, homie. Cuz I don't know if that's the smartest thing.

[00:07:39]>> [laughter] >> HE WAS YEAH. HE >> HE WAS RIGHT THERE, RIGHT THERE IN my Ventura.

[00:07:45]And yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:07:47]And he in the apartment complex and had a vending machine in the hallway. So he go to the vending machine back and forth and he see this other black guy that lived there, too. So they just start talking.

[00:07:58]They start talking about different things. He's like, "What do you do? What do you do?" He's like, "Yeah, I'm in the hip-hop." He's like, "Oh, yeah?" He's like, "You sound like you from the East Coast." He's like, "Yeah, I'm from the East Coast." He's like, "My homeboy is from the East Coast." He's like, "Do they name Ice-T Snoop? You ever heard of them?" He was like, "That's my boy. WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?"

[00:08:13]HE'S LIKE, "YO, MAN, COME INSIDE MY CRIB."

[00:08:15]HE GO inside the crib, they chilling.

[00:08:17]He's like, "What's your name, man?" He's like, "My name Tim Dog." He's like, "Tim Dog?"

[00:08:22]He's like, "Fuck He's like, "FUCK COMPTON?"

[00:08:27]>> AND HE MADE IT OUT ALIVE.

[00:08:28]>> HE'S LIKE, "YEAH."

[00:08:29]HE WAS LIKE, "YO, CUZ, YOU CRAZY, CUZ."

[00:08:32]HE'S LIKE, "YO, CUZ, YOU CRAZY. YOU LIVE OUT HERE?"

[00:08:34]>> YO, THAT IS That's changes everything. Oh my god.

[00:08:39]>> Who Who was he with?

[00:08:40]>> Who was he in the apartment with, though?

[00:08:41]>> With my homeboy Shaw. Peace to brother Shaw.

[00:08:44]>> Yo. Yo.

[00:08:46]>> Yeah.

[00:08:47]>> Yeah, you Yo, let me tell you something, man. One thing I learned about the hood, >> [music] >> you can't play around nowhere.

[00:08:52]>> He was living right >> sure don't be played around [music] in Cali, B. Out here messing with >> Was he crazy?

[00:09:00]>> He was out of his mind.

[00:09:02]He was out of his mind. He was Yeah, he was out of his mind.

[00:09:05]>> sing. Sound like a kid playing on the swings.

[00:09:08]>> [laughter] >> I'll tell YOU WHAT. YEAH.

[00:09:09]>> YEAH.

[00:09:10]>> I'LL TELL YOU WHAT. I'LL TELL YOU HOLD ON. [laughter] I'LL TELL YOU I'LL TELL YOU I NEED TO HEAR A LITTLE BIT OF I NEED TO hear that.

[00:09:17]>> We got TO DO A SALUTE WITH THAT JAMES BROWN.

[00:09:19]>> HERE'S THE THING THAT'S CRAZY about that. You know how he survived? There was no internet back then.

[00:09:24]>> There's no question.

[00:09:25]>> So he That's That's how he could maneuver.

[00:09:27]>> no, no. He survived because nobody knew what he looked like.

[00:09:30]>> That, too. That, too. But if people knew he lived out here THAT'S CRAZY. HE WAS OUT HERE AT that time.

[00:09:38]>> Yeah.

[00:09:38]>> That's crazy.

[00:09:40]That's crazy.

[00:09:41]>> Yeah, man. Look, I'm at Ced Gee's house.

[00:09:45]I'm at Ced Gee's house. Ced got to go to the studio.

[00:09:48]So, he said, "Yo, come on, Greg. Got to go to the studio."

[00:09:51]We get on the We get on the city bus, the 55 bus in [singing] the Bronx on Third Avenue. We take it down to 149th Street.

[00:09:59]>> Mhm.

[00:09:59]>> Ced got the SP-12 in his arm.

[00:10:02]>> Mhm.

[00:10:02]>> There's no cover. There's no box. No bag. Nothing.

[00:10:06]>> [laughter] >> Just the SP-12 in >> an expensive piece of equipment.

[00:10:09]>> Yeah. We got on the bus. We got a transfer from the bus to the train.

[00:10:13]Do it in a little box. Got on a 2 train.

[00:10:16]Went down to Grand Central.

[00:10:17]Took the shuttle. Went across.

[00:10:20]Got off in Times Square. We walked up about five blocks to 47th Street between 8th and 8th and 7th.

[00:10:28]Go to the studio. Back then, the studios didn't have digital machines there.

[00:10:32]Everything was live. The drumming, the bass, and all of that stuff was there.

[00:10:35]So, we go in. He going to go do another song with Scott.

[00:10:39]So, you go in there. Ced put the machine up.

[00:10:42]Put the sounds in. Getting it all together. It's myself, KRS, Scott, Ced, and somebody else is in the room tapping on the drum.

[00:11:02]Homeboy on the keyboard. It was a Roland trying to do do do do I'm like, "Yo, won't you try that piano, the one with the missing keys right there?"

[00:11:11]>> Don't tell me that that that ended up being that.

[00:11:13]>> KRS goes, "Hold on. Let me see."

[00:11:30]Grab the yellow pad.

[00:11:38]About 15 minutes.

[00:11:42]Next day they go to Dick Charles.

[00:11:44]Acetate.

[00:11:46]Take the acetate to Red Alert.

[00:11:48]RED ALERT GO BERSERK.

[00:11:58]YEAH. THEN CHANGED IT BECAUSE IT became a record.

[00:12:02]Oh yeah. Steady pumping.

[00:12:05]It's like yo, bananas.

[00:12:07]And that's how it went down.

[00:12:09]>> Sometimes it's that it's that fast, right? It happens that fast.

[00:12:12]>> 100%. It can happen in many ways.

[00:12:14]It can It can be iterative over a few weeks or you could come up with something in 15 minutes. Anyway, Rock the Bells Radio salute the sample. That was crazy.

[00:12:24]>> All right. So this this this right here.

[00:12:26]You got the the James Brown in the background. This pattern.

[00:12:33]>> Are we going to go all the way there, Z?

[00:12:36]Oh my god. This guy right here. [music] The Fusion. Flip Wilson.

[00:12:43]>> This right here.

[00:12:45]When I heard this, I was like, oh, okay.

[00:12:48]This joint right here.

[00:12:51]I've rocked this on stage with them.

[00:12:53]I'll do a little thing that I do with it, but it's >> That's that Run the Jewels.

[00:12:56]>> Run the Jewels joint, man. LP Killer Mike tracks on it.

[00:12:59]>> 2013.

[00:13:00]>> What is the first joint they First thing they came out with was this.

[00:13:04]And when I heard this, this is the instrumental. When I heard this thing, [music] I lost my mind.

[00:13:08]The uh >> [music] >> I was like You guys did it, man.

[00:13:17]And this is my Then I'd go >> This is live, y'all. If y'all not watching [laughter] it, it's live. Z trip.

[00:13:40]>> [laughter] [laughter] >> ROCK THE BELLS.

[00:13:57]>> [laughter] >> SO, YEAH, MAN. WE USED TO ROCK THAT on stage.

[00:14:03]>> That's crazy.

[00:14:04]>> Anytime they were in town, man. But, that that tune right there, man. That >> [music] >> Right here. I got to run the vocals on this.

[00:14:11]These guys I was like, this is the epitome of what I want.

[00:14:14]New flavor, old flavor, [music] but like with the the ethics of the things that I grew up listening to, man. Listen to these vocals.

[00:14:22]>> And then the name. [music] >> Oh, yeah.

[00:14:29]>> That [ __ ] is rocking right there.

[00:14:32]That beat is rocking, B. Come on.

[00:14:35]>> [music] >> LP, huh?

[00:14:40]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Run the Jewels.

[00:15:03]>> Run the Jewels. Run the Jewels.

[00:15:05]>> [music] >> He said, "All I got is this rap [ __ ] All I want is a castle."

[00:15:15]All I want is a castle.

[00:15:18]>> [music] >> Spit my colossal to come and clap it.

[00:15:22]Stupid goofy still eating Gucci Gucci and snapping. [music] When that go for them [ __ ] kissing cats that's in the back and they all sweet as little Richie Rich. Good God almighty. It make [music] a [ __ ] like me go woo and rob the park.

[00:15:33]I actually stepping with my weapon with the Jefferson walk. [music] If you stressing in it objections you could get left in chalk. So my suggestion let a G be forgive [music] my transgression. For all my being capital fashious for fashious >> Mike killing it chopping on this joint.

[00:15:47]>> [music] [laughter] >> Rock the Bells radio channel 43. Salute the sample.

[00:16:01]>> CRAIG NICE IS live now.

[00:16:03]>> Z trip THE C TRIP.

[00:16:12]>> CUT SO FRESH.

[00:16:27]>> [laughter] [laughter] >> OH.

[00:16:37]YEAH.

[00:16:40]YEAH.

[00:16:42]>> [laughter] >> GET IT.

[00:16:45]>> THAT'S CRAZY.

[00:16:46]>> YEAH MAN.