Comments on: Deconstructing “Johnny Ryall”

By: Lance Davis

Lance Davis — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 13:35:04 +0000

Haha. Nowadays, 50 cents gets you a big bowl of talk soup.

By: Tom Foolery

Tom Foolery — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 13:30:45 +0000

In reply to Tom Foolery. By the way, there are at least 2 answers to this question.

By: Tom Foolery

Tom Foolery — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 13:28:14 +0000

Nice one, Lance. But what KIND of soup does 50 cents buy?

By: The HippieRipper

The HippieRipper — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:31:03 +0000

In reply to Patrick Joseph.

Pat,

I believe you are correct.

I’ve been working on reconstructing the entire backing track and I think “Patty Duke” is definitely sampled. I found a section where the sample doesn’t come from any of the songs listed. On the line “Go upstate to get your head together”, you can hear a bass line. I think its from Patty Duke. The sample is heard at the beginning of JR too. During the wind effect, the buh-buh-buh-buh, does not appear to be from Sharon. I think it may be from Patty Duke as well.

I’ll play with it when I get home tonight. Anyone else have thoughts to where the sample at the beginning of JR comes from?

By: Drinks with Diablo

Drinks with Diablo — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:04:58 +0000

Pauls Boutique was way ahead of its time, and really ushered in the next amalgamation of hip-hop and all other types of music. This was the album where the Beasties really branched out their sound, leaving the frat boy rhymes behind in search of something more eclectic. When Check your Head dropped a few years later, you can pinpoint this album as the place where the seeds were sown. One of the greatest albums of the 1980s, although I don't think of it as an 80s album, and one of the greatest albums ever. It took time for people to get what was going on in this record, but it went on to influence many as time went on.

By: Affiliate Network

Affiliate Network — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:34:36 +0000

Awesome post!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:47:28 +0000

Really good read. I have to agree about Paul's Boutique. It's not often an album comes along that "changes" how you think about music, but Paul's Boutique does that every time I hear it. It's deep, shallow, old school, new school, trippy, sexual & violent with a heavy touch of NYC & weed. It's amazing that every time I listen to PB, I feel like I heard something I hadn't heard on previous occasions. PB was, IMO, ahead of it's time by 15+ years. Even when I heard it brand new (from Record Bar btw ;) I couldn't appreciate the brilliance of it. I have a few Beastie favorites that aren't on PB, but it remains the only BB album that I enjoy listening to from track 1, over and over again.

Peace,
:3v0Lv3D:

By: LD

LD — Sat, 29 May 2010 14:33:14 +0000

Interesting. And so begins another hunt. Thanks Patrick Joseph.

By: Patrick Joseph

Patrick Joseph — Sat, 29 May 2010 14:22:21 +0000

Fascinating article. However, I believe the “chimes/triangle” sound can be originally attributed to Cloud One's “Patty Duke” single which was heavily sampled/used as a backing track in a lot of rap singles from 1979/80. Both Spoonie G and Scoopy use it as the music bed for their respective songs, “Spoonin' Rap” and “Scoopy Rap”.

By: Rockstar Aimz

Rockstar Aimz — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:26:01 +0000

Brilliant post!