This track is ground zero in all of hip hop and perhaps the most in your face rap single of all time! While Public Enemy are no doubt the most influential rap group of all time, they were also the most innovative with their sampling and dynamic backing tracks provided by brothers Hank and Keith Shocklee, also known as The Bomb Squad. The Shocklee brothers had their own mobile … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Fight The Power” by Public Enemy
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Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Block Rockin’ Beats” by The Chemical Brothers
Along with Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, Groove Armada, The Propellerheads and The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers introduced the world to an influential dance oriented "Big Beat" music driven by heavy breakbeats in the early 1990s. The duo of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons called themselves "The Dust Brothers" after the influential U.S. producers of early Beastie Boy records. … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Block Rockin’ Beats” by The Chemical Brothers
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “She’s Crafty” by Beastie Boys
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman - "She’s Crafty" by Beastie Boys From their not-so-humble beginnings as a truly awful Hard Core band who I had the privilege to see as an opening act at Big Audio Dynamite's first U.S. show at a club called “The World” in New York City in 1984...to the juvenile hardy partyers who opened for Madonna on her "Virgin" tour the following year riding … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “She’s Crafty” by Beastie Boys
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Eye Know” by De La Soul
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Eye Know” by De La Soul With samples from Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" and Steely Dan's "Peg," De La Soul unleashed this bouillabaisse of good times onto a hip-hop public in 1989 with today’s Song Of the Day by Eric Berman. The 3 Feet High And Rising album is one of two stone-cold sample-delic masterpieces that came out … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Eye Know” by De La Soul