‘Worst Comes To Worst’ (original and remix) Use your keyboard’s arrow keys or hit the prev / next arrows on your screen to turn pages (page 2/12) We all loved them and wanted to rap them.Ĭhosen YouTube comment: “This sounds like a similar sample DJ Babu used in a beat battle vs Swiff D” ![]() It was the era when we could incorporate those beats into our shows, we could go to the radio and have Babu throw on one to rap to. Things like that are common right now, but when they dropped it was like, “Oh shit.” I always wanted to rap on those beats. To me, they were necessary records to have at the time. I liked the first one cos I flipped the KPM cover on it.Įvidence: I heard all of those. Sometimes, there were unreleased beats too, but mainly beats I had already put on people’s projects. The idea for the series was to put out a bunch of beats that were on album cuts that didn’t come with instrumentals, because back then instrumentals only came out if the song was a single. Action/Drama, 2000)Īlchemist: I think it was a beat that I ended up using with Everlast and B Real, which is probably why I called it ‘Soul Assassin’. (taken from The Chemistry Files: An Instrumental Series. Use your keyboard’s arrow keys or hit the prev / next arrows on your screen to turn pages (page 1/12) ![]() Read on for details of why you can’t do psychedelics past a certain age, what Alchemist thinks of mushrooms and techno, and recording in legendary studios on the sly. “You could just curse someone out and it’d still sound fly.”) Guests include Oh No, Roc Marciano and Rakaa from Dilated Peoples, as well as some new blood like Domo Genesis, Action Bronson and Fashawn.Ĭatching up with the pair in Amsterdam, I asked them each to speak on the stories behind the beats, and also comment on each other’s work. What follows are ten (well, eleven) Alchemist and Evidence productions from the past 15 years, revisited on the fly with no preparation and some choice YouTube comments as prompters. It’s an extremely quirky set, built around a loose theme of British aristocracy (“With a British accent you can say wild shit and it still sounds very proper,” Alchemist explains. They’re now trading as a two-piece under the Will Ferrell-inspired Step Brothers moniker, responsible for the forthcoming Lord Steppington LP. The pair grew up in California and were childhood friends before joining forces during Dilated’s early years when Alchemist became the group’s go to producer. The former is perhaps best known as one of hip hop’s nicest producers, with a long list of credits that includes Mobb Deep, Nas and Snoop Dogg, while the latter made his name as one of the two MCs in legendary indie hip hop group Dilated Peoples. Artistic longevity isn’t easy to achieve – but, with over two decades of rapping and producing behind them, Alchemist and Evidence both have it.
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