Microkhan by Brendan I. Koerner

Entries Tagged as 'Smif-n-Wessun'

“…With No One Else in Sight”

April 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments

The great downside of music’s move toward digitization is the end of liner notes, the record industry’s equivalent of YouTube’s “Related Videos” feature. Microkhan fondly recalls discovering Donny Hathaway via the notes from The Chronic; half the hooks on that album were copped from the great-and-troubled legend of Chicago soul. Nowadays, alas, you have to […]

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What a Shame

April 14th, 2009 · 3 Comments

The Jones Girls were by no means a great group. They too often veered into easy-listening terrain, and committed a cardinal music-biz sin by partnering with Lou Rawls (so famously slammed by The Pharcyde many moons ago). But the Girls also produced a song responsible for one of the greatest hip-hop samples of all time: […]

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