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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: Sikotic™ on June 08, 2001, 06:26:59 PM

Title: Which Oldie R&B singer would you collab with???
Post by: Sikotic™ on June 08, 2001, 06:26:59 PM: We got Marvin Gaye with Eric Sermon. I would like to see these guys collab with or get sampled by rappers:

Al Green
The Isley Brothers (I know they have but I would love to hear more)
Curtis Mayfield
Willie Hutch

There are more but my brain is too racked to think of anymore.
Title: Re: Which Oldie R&B singer would you collab with??
Post by: Mr_Loc on June 08, 2001, 06:29:27 PM: Curtis Mayfield
Ronald Isley
Smokey Robinson
Stevie Wonder
Title: Re: Which Oldie R&B singer would you collab with??
Post by: Sikotic™ on June 08, 2001, 06:35:12 PM: Forgot about good ol' Smokey.

Jr. Walker
David Ruffin
Harold Melvin
Title: Re: Which Oldie R&B singer would you collab with??
Post by: Mr_Loc on June 08, 2001, 06:41:17 PM: James DeBarge (LOVE his shit with Quik)
Four Tops
O-Jays

im still soaking game on oldies so everyone let me know who i should check out.
Title: Re: Which Oldie R&B singer would you collab with??
Post by: Sikotic™ on June 08, 2001, 06:51:49 PM: Jeffrey Osborne
Issac Hayes (love to see him more)
Barry White
Title: Re: Which Oldie R&B singer would you collab with??
Post by: Don Seer on June 08, 2001, 06:57:28 PM: I'm glad people threw in Curtis (RIP)

heres a few random ones that i can recall

Isaac Hayes
The Ohio Players
Kool & The Gang did some good shit before they turned super pop

i think mr.loc's 'soaking up game' is getting harder for us younguns without the stuff being easy to get hold of and played a lot - i hear shit sometimes years after i realised its come from an advert - its buggin coz i feel there should be recognition
Title: Re: Which Oldie R&B singer would you collab with??
Post by: Mr_Loc on June 08, 2001, 07:01:07 PM: overseer i like to hit up the big HMV megastores, they always got a ton of greatest hits albums for like a fiver each.

youre right the original albums are really rare now but greatest hits cds are dope for an introduction for folks like me
Title: Re: Which Oldie R&B singer would you collab with??
Post by: Sikotic™ on June 08, 2001, 07:01:26 PM: Oh and I can't forget the Brothers Johnson. They had some of the tightest songs I've ever heard.

Everyone chack out Strawberry Letter #22 or Stomp. Those songs are straight classics.
Title: Re: Which Oldie R&B singer would you collab with??
Post by: Don Seer on June 08, 2001, 07:04:48 PM: loc - exactly.. i got a stack of greatest hits and old compilations - even covers of old stuff

theres a group called breakestra (http://www.breakestra.com) that does live covers of stuff thats heavily sampled - they've got a cd out using in a format they called a livemix where they run through a stack of covers seamlessly - dope stuff.
Title: Re: Which Oldie R&B singer would you collab with??
Post by: Trauma-san on June 09, 2001, 01:10:17 AM: Oldies, I'd Want To Sample

Sam Cooke (One Of The Greatest, Hardly Ever Mentioned)
Marvin Gaye (Of Course)
The Temptations
The Drifters (It's Usually Slow, But It Could Be Done By A Good DJ)
Michael Jackson
Dusty Springfield

Pretty Much Anybody Would Work For Me LOL... They Could Pull Anything Off , If They Were Skilled Enough...

BTW, I Think Dre's Sample Of Rare Earth's "I Just Want To Celebrate" Is The Best Sample Ever Done... He Did That PERFECT.
Title: Re: Which Oldie R&B singer would you collab with??
Post by: Now_Im_Not_Banned on June 09, 2001, 04:37:27 PM: Stevie Wonder (AKA Wonders)
Isley Bros
Issac Hayes
Marvine Gaye...Thers a lot
Title: Re: Which Oldie R&B singer would you collab with??
Post by: TL on June 09, 2001, 04:43:23 PM: MORE Marvin Gaye
Barry White
Al Green
Smokey Robinson
Jackie Wilson

and
Sam & Dave!!