The title track on Little Brother’s The Listening album is the best beat on the album

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That’s my second pick

I love how MC Eiht used the same sample years later for his song, “So Well” too


the original song "and I love her" is a Beatles song covered by a few artists. The Eiht and LB song was sampled from Bobby Womack's version. Bobby Womack is my favorite singer of all time and his version of "and I love her" appears on my favorite album from him, UNDERSTANDING. "Woman's gotta have it" (that 9th flipped for Ness) is also on that album. Bobby's version of "sweet caroline" is also on that lp. I got a about 4 or 5 copies of that album and I don't think it was ever repressed.
 
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the original song "and I love her" is a Beatles song covered by a few artists. The Eiht and LB song was sampled from Bobby Womack's version. Bobby Womack is my favorite singer of all time and his version of "and I love her" appears on my favorite album from him, UNDERSTANDING. "Woman's gotta have it" (that 9th flipped for Ness) is also on that album. Bobby's version of "sweet caroline" is also on that lp. I got a about 4 or 5 copies of that album and I don't think it was ever repressed.

I ain’t know you a huge Bobby Womack fan


I should’ve tagged you in my thread for Bobby Womack and Sly Stone, it’s some footage and audio of a 80’s concert of Bobby’s and Sly was a guest


Yessir. Oh I know. My pops was a fan of Bobby’s music too so I’m pretty well versed on his albums



Sly Stone is my all time favorite artist
 

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Little Brother doesn’t get the respect they deserve
Just like I mentioned in the a thread the other day, the innovators in hip hop don't get as much credit as those who come after them. You had The Listening released in 2002(yes 2002, It was released early on Hiphopsite and my vinyl is RARE with the 2002 pressing date), then we saw Kanye in early 2004 release College Dropout selling millions on an album that LB had basically done first with the re-emergence of what they would call "backpack hiphop" in the early 2000s. On top of that, you had Drake being on his singing and rapping shyt AFTER Phonte. It's never good to be the first one in Hip hop
 

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Need to run this back:wow:
Same here. This album had me in a fukking choke hold and still puts me back in that time whenever I throw it on. College apartments (graduated from the dorms), hoop shorts under the jeans and a gym bag in the trunk cause I never knew if I might end up crashing at one of the homies spots or some chick crib, and a basketball in the trunk cause a nikka always had to stay ready lol. This was one of the main soundtracks to my life back then. Good fukking times:wow:
 
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