Wednesday 18 July 2012

Ribbit on that other level

Rap blog rule # 19865 - on an otherwise slow wednesday when you can't think of anything else to post, flex your Rap-nerd muscles with an obscure sample source from a song by the Rap Game Clarence "Frogman" Henry :

$tarlito - Rather Be With You
(From #UW: Separation Anxiety EP; 2012)


Alright, so I can't be the only person who heard $tarlito's Rather Be With You last year and then went scrambling to Google to look up that opening sample because it sounded like it might be from some secrete old TRU song, right? Whaddaya know it actually derives from a track by O.G Three 6 Mafia member Lil' Fly/Playa Fly which, I presume, is a Memphis classic :

Playa Fly ft. Gangsta Blac & Bill Chill - Nobody
(From Movin' On album; 1998)


Solving a sample mystery and noting the uncanny similarity between $tarlito's croak-flow and Clarence Henry's frog voice - that's all I got today, lads.
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9 comments:

  1. done18 July 2012 at 18:28

    Ha Ive never heard that Clarence Henry song before, your comparison is spot on. Froggystyle is slept on:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c0l04yh1Os

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPsIuzobCDs

    Was Fly a member-member? I assumed he was an affiliate like Gangsta Blac or Skinny Pimp.

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  2. Kelvin Mack10zie18 July 2012 at 19:33

    I'm sure you have heard it before, just not the part when he breaks into the frog voice.

    I guess he was a, uh, member/affiliate hybrid type person like most of the guys in the early years?

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  3. noz18 July 2012 at 20:51

    bill chill was fly's father and a soul singer of some acclaim in his own right as a member of the ovations.

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  4. Kelvin Mack10zie18 July 2012 at 21:30

    No way. I remember seeing some pix of him on the Youtube upload of Nobody and thinking "that guy looks a little bit too old to be singing on this."

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  5. done18 July 2012 at 23:59

    Ah here, I need to get that Lost Boys soundtrack.I hope it has sweaty sax duke on it.

    Above The Law shouldve got Willie Hutch on a few songs. A duet with him & Kokane about prostitutes.

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  6. Kelvin Mack10zie19 July 2012 at 08:47

    The sax joint is on the soundtrack (I Still Believe by Tim Capello) but the Clarence joint here isn't on there. Go figure

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  7. sisilafami19 July 2012 at 13:43

    it also inspired this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uxu8ps8C0U

    and this http://youtu.be/V8M1I1lJOJU?t=30s

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  8. brad19 July 2012 at 15:28

    lol that frogman fella really does sound like starlito.

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