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When I interviewed DJ Swindle a couple of years ago, I pitched an idea for his next mixtape: The Jim Jones Experience, a mashup album of Dipset and Jimi Hendrix. Swindle, perhaps feeling that Cam'ron beat him to it, took a pass on the suggestion, instead opting to mash Snoop Dogg with Curtis Mayfield on Snooperfly. That was probably for the best, as Snooperfly ended up being quite good, though I still maintain that Jimi Hendrix's catalog of work is one of the few largely untapped sources of mainstream material left for hip hop to sample. It seems like most producers can not hear Jimi!
The-breaks.com lists only a handful of Hendrix songs being used in hip hop. The Beastie Boys are perhaps the most prolific of Jimi samplers, using three of his songs for Jimmy James. However, Are You Experienced? is arguably the most famous of Hendrix's samples, having been used in both Cypress Hill's How I Could Just Kill A Man and Pharcyde's Passin' Me By.
All of this is a lead up to say that I was pleasantly surprised to hear the latest track from Black Sunn and 810, produced by Damu the Fudgemunk, which makes use of a Hendrix sample and audio of an interview with Jimi:
Black Sunn and 810 - Black Serenade
Black Serenade is off of Black Sunn's new EP, Sol Parables. Go cop that!
And here's one more track that 810 put together with Miami producer Mydus, for Ashley Outrageous' new mixtape The Playlist:
810 - Save Me Now (produced by Mydus)
2/28/2010 7:30:51 PM posted by Fresh