Links

• Main links page from musc108
• Hip Hop links page from musc108

Club Cultures

• Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music (Techno.org)
• Documentary: “High Tech Soul: The Creation of Techno Music“
• Phuture: “Acid Trax“
• Farley “Jackmaster” Funk, Daryl Pandy (vocals): “Love Can’t Turn Around” (1986)
• Steve “Silk” Hurley: “Jack Your Body“
• “Locals Mostly, For Now,” New York Times (1/31/10)

Tupac Shakur

• Discography at allmusic.com
• Lyrics: metrolyrics, azlyrics
• Gold and Platinum sales (enter 2 pac in search)
• Wikipedia entry
• Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation
• Author Michael Eric Dyson: response to Bill Cosby, on democracy now
  
• Interviews (comprehensive listing)
  • At age 17: part 1,
  • First MTV interview (1992)
  • On the Arsenio Hall show (1993)
  • With Fab 5 Freddy on MTV, summary bio (1993)
  • Deposition while in prison (1995)
  • with Tabitha Soren (1995, after prison)
  • On thug life
  • in Death Row Records office
  • MTV Awards interview (3 days before his death)
• Digital Underground
  • “Humpty Dance” live on Arsenio Hall Show
• 2pacalypse Now (1992)
  • “Brenda’s Got a Baby“
  • “If My Homie Calls“
• Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.(1993)
  • “Keep Ya Head Up” (live on MTV, 1993)
  • “I Get Around“
• Me Against the World (1995)
  • “Me Against the World“
  • “Dear Mama“
• “Hit ’em Up” (1996 single, on Greatest Hits, 1998)
• All Eyez on Me (1996)
  • Tupac and Snoop Dogg: “2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted,”  (Live at the House of Blues)
  • “All Eyez on Me“
  • “I Ain’t Mad at Cha“
  • “Life Goes On“

Sample-Based Hip Hop

1980s

• Grandmaster Flash: “The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel,” and breakdown of samples used (on whosampled.com)
  • Grandmaster Flash live (1987?)
  • Grandmaster Flash performing (from Wildstyle, 1982)
  • Grandmaster Flash and Jam Master Jay live on MTV
  • Grandmaster Flash live 2009
• G.L.O.B.E. and Whiz Kid: “Play That Beat” (1983)
  • Steinski and Double Dee: “Lesson 1: The Payoff Mix,” 1983 winner of Tommy Boy’s Hey Mr DJ Play That Beat Down by Law Switch the Licks Mastermix contest, and breakdown of the samples used (on whosampled.com)

1990s

• Biz Markie’s “Alone”  and its sample souce, Gilbert O’Sullivan’s “Alone Again (Naturally)”
  • Sampling lawsuit details
  • Robert Christgau’s Village Voice article on the case
• Pete Rock and CL Smooth: “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)” (1992) (Wiki page)
• The Roots: “Concerto of the Desperado” (1996)
  • Ultramagnetic MCs: “Ego Trippin‘” (1988)

2000s

• Slum Village: “I Don’t Know“

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