Series: cypher — Theme: A one-hour argument between the record that stole and the record that got stolen. Duration: 1h00m · 10 tracks, fully programmed and narrated on wobuzz radio.
A one-hour argument between the record that stole and the record that got stolen. We open on the West Coast, Dr. Dre under Donny Hathaway's ache, and let the sources answer back across the decades: Curtis Mayfield's sermon between the two Hathaway-flipping rap records, the J.B.'s at full nine-minute length as the funk architecture hip-hop was built on, Guru closing the Jazzmatazz trilogy with soul, Q-Tip making a jazz record without a single sample, Millie Jackson's multitracks exhumed by Steve Levine, and Goldie letting the whole thing dissolve into strings at the edge of Wednesday.
Tracklist: Dr. Dre — Lil' Ghetto Boy · Curtis Mayfield — We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue · Wu‐Tang Clan — The City … (+7 more)
