"flava in ya ear" type easy mo bee stuff

[azwun25]

i remember waiting on a saturday and watching videos all day with the VCR in record mode to to tape that video. Great stuff.

Sorry...that was off topic...

[Dor]

Here's an old interview: easymobee

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[frank lyon]

OT: easy mo bee has some great interview minutes on that "Bigger Than Life" (Notorious B.I.G.) DVD that just came out

[Methlab]

Thats one of my all time favorites.

Master your sampler...resample..bounce..adjust loop points..etc.

Of course, find the right samples first.

[paultools]

I mixed a few songs he produced.
Sounded like a lot of SP-1200 to me.
Nothing unusual or extraordinary about the way it was recorded...
just some really funky grooves!

[illynoise]

There's a song by Heavy D, I think is was "Black Chocolate", that he did. I think Pete Rock had a credit on that one too! Two of my favorite back then.

[Oscar]

Sorry for going OT (at least it's still Easy Mo Bee related), but I wanted to say that Pac's "Temptations" is my favorite rap/hip-hop song of all time. I know that probably doesn't make much sense since it's obviously not Pac's best lyrics or flow & certainly not the "best" rap song of all time on a lot of levels, but it's mos def my all-time favorite anyway. If I was trying to expose rap & hip-hop to someone who'd never heard it or heard of it before "Temptations" would be the song I'd play. Easy Mo Bee is my hero for that one. I could go on for paragraphs on why I like it so much, but I'll spare y'all.

[paultools]

I did a mix of "Temptations", but Bassy Bob Brockman's was better and they went with that.

Just normal tracking... some cool chopped and filtered samples supplemented with extra drums and a bass line.

[beat you down]

thanks guys!

[Oscar]

Originally Posted by paultools

I did a mix of "Temptations", but Bassy Bob Brockman's was better and they went with that.

Just normal tracking... some cool chopped and filtered samples supplemented with extra drums and a bass line.

Hell yeah man. Much respect for being there. The mix is one of the reasons I like it so much. Bob killed it. The bass hits so loose. It's a deceptively thick & layered mix. I love it. I'm listening to it right now.

[Beat God]

I was actually chillin with Mo Bee 2 weeks ago at the studio. His new shit is bananas while still maintaining his signature sound. He really is a great producer. Next time I see him i'll ask him about that track.

-BG

[Hedorah]

I remember reading an interview with Mo Bee way back in the day and he said he sampled his girls hair dryer for one of the signature sounds on the Flavor in ya Ear song. He's dope!
I wanna peep his new stuff.

[PhonoquO]

yeah. that temptations beat is one of my favs of all time. Pac really gave that track flavor too no doubt.

[Beat God]

He has a new label called platinum ice records. He played this new track with Mele Mel and dat sh!t was crazy. I actually met Melle Mel outside the studio in times suare that night. He's a real cool and humble.

-BG

[beat you down]

sorry to bump this ancient thread but again i was listening to his old stuff...

maybe any of you guys who joined later got info on how he processed his samples in order to get them so abstract and beyond recognition?

[JaeOne3345]

Have you used an sp-1200 before for long periods of time? I own one and in terms of the sample sound, if you pitch any sp-1200 sound down enough after sampling it at fast speeds you are gonna get tons of strange artifacts and qualities in the sample. You won't notice it on drums as much as you would on longer samples like guitar riffs/chops, piano chords, etc. Something like a rhodes riff pitched back down in an sp will give u that ring and specific sound.

On something like flava in ya ear, that is all I am hearing, besides his dope programming/chopping skills.

Here, I have added an mp3. I did this beat 5-6 years ago only on the sp..then had my boy Chris rock over it.

[beat you down]

Originally Posted by JaeOne3345

Have you used an sp-1200 before for long periods of time? I own one and in terms of the sample sound, if you pitch any sp-1200 sound down enough after sampling it at fast speeds you are gonna get tons of strange artifacts and qualities in the sample. You won't notice it on drums as much as you would on longer samples like guitar riffs/chops, piano chords, etc. Something like a rhodes riff pitched back down in an sp will give u that ring and specific sound.

On something like flava in ya ear, that is all I am hearing, besides his dope programming/chopping skills.

Here, I have added an mp3. I did this beat 5-6 years ago only on the sp..then had my boy Chris rock over it.

thanks, yeah it's probably just stretched, pitched down and / or that sp ring. i guess i'm overthinking this one too much.

nice beat btw!

[SBX-80]

There's no secret formula really. A real nice vinyl collection, an SP1200 & S950, a decent studio (SSL) and a decent engineer.

And the most important part of course, a really talented producer. Easy Mo Bee would play the SP1200 like an instrument, he could use that shit with his eyes closed if he had to. He knew what he was after and he would just chop shit and flip shit until he was satisfied. And then you just dump the shit to 2".