Faculty: DJ Green Lantern

-I saw this video of an interview with Pete Rock and DJ Green Lantern and it reminded me of how great Green is. The Evil Genius is the greatest remix DJ of all time. I think I first heard him on the Fort Minor We Major mixtape he did, which sounds pretty weak but he was throwing out crazy classic rock samples. A hip-hop DJ doing beats with The Doors, Led Zeppelin, and Queens of the Stone Age is pretty ridiculous. Always sporting a pro-left agenda, Green recently teamed up with Russel Simmons to work on the Obama "Yes We Can" mixtape. Green's sampling influenced my style more than any other DJ. Green Lantern is also responsible for the infectious, Austin Powers sampled beat for Ludacris' "Get Back."
-I threw a couple Green vids in the favorites section of our YouTube page so check them out.
-Another thing this video reminded me to tell everyone is that in the next year we're going to be launching a number of other blogs under the Class Act Media hood, including a music nerd DJ technology/equipment/news blog, so if that's your thing, be on the lookout.
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Music Theory: Lil' Wayne x Gremlins x Elvis Costello

-We've stayed away from all the Wayne hating and Wayne hyping that's been going on in the last couple months. There's just too much you could say and too much you could argue. I don't want to get into the debate, I just want to throw this ridiculous mix at you. This mix is just another punctuating point in my argument that producers are 80% of hip-hop, not MCs. Listen to how well the gremlin growl sample fits on the Wayne crazy jibberish.

I saw this the turntable lab blog more