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– Owe My Life to You –

Reggie: This was off a Jackie Jackson solo record. You heard it and wanted to chipmunk it.

Nino: Larry [Hobson] was in the studio. He wanted a Dipset kind of beat.

Reggie: You took that one and ran with it. Very Heatmakersish.

– Henchmen –

Nino: For some reason the horns reminded me of like those butterfly henchmen from the venture bros.It makes me think of henchmen on their down time

Reggie: This was off an Antonio Carlos Jobim record i’d been searching garage sales for, for years. I heard one cut off it on Jazz 88 and lucky for me the DJ mentioned the label and year so from there I kept my eyes open. I never thought I’d find that record. I was used to not finding it at record conventions and shops, that one day I convinced my parents to stop at a record shop on South Orange Ave. I was looking for some Donald Byrd records that day and found this one instead. Jackpot.

– Pleasantly Insane –

Nino: I wanted to make somethin real sinister. i mean it was the first beat we made. The laughs added some insanity to the track.

Reggie: I liked this record a great deal. This is straight up Adult Swim music. We took opening bars off a Ray Charles record and chopped it up.

– Haitian Haze Acres/Toys featuring Shape –

Nino: What were we thinking with that one? You gave it to Ian (Shape) and he threw the hook in. He turned it into a dope song. He didn’t find out I had anything to do with that beat till he played it for me and I said “Thats my beat.”

Reggie: That’s straight up comedy. This was a record by Haitian star Ansy Derose. As soon as we looped it I played the bass and it came together perfectly. Ian mercked that beat. His flow is dope and the concept is too. He’s saying something. Toys is a good song all around.

– Smoke and Ozium –

Nino: You remember anything from that session? Didn’t you want to use the acapella before we made the beat?

Reggie: Yea. I think it was Hair. Something off the Hair soundtrack, cause I made a mental note that ATCQ sampled the next song on that record. That morning I’d been playing records and I had “Santana’s Town” in the stack. That’s one of my favorite songs. The particular portion you hear in this song always looped in my head. That morning I told my self I had to use it.

I wanted to use a differentloop but it didn’t work so you chose another one and it worked

Nino: I liked that guitar and I chopped up her voice and threw it over those guitars.

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