Glenn Swagmire
12-20-2007, 12:03 AM
achieved what he set out to do ?
Eastern Philosophy" is basically two things. It's an album that really dictates my life and how I felt growing up, being in the East Coast and coming up with hip-hop, and it reflects that type of sound I grew up loving. The second thing it is, it's kind of connected with the first one, it gets kids acquainted with that era of hip-hop. A lot of kids nowadays aren't really familiar with that early 90s shit. A lot of people try to replicate that shit, but it ends up falling short, so I wanted to really submerse myself in that time period as far as listening to albums, and I really wanted to make something that had that feeling go into it.
Which albums were you listening to ?
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Illmatic, Organized Konfusion, Stress, Reasonable Doubt, Gangstarr's Hard To Earn, the first Wu-Tang album, Liquid Swords. That's all I would allow myself to listen to. I didn't listen to any new shit, I wasn't really checking for any new albums, no newer songs. I was just really in that zone, and stayed in that zone.
How long was that time period you were listening to those albums?
Probably a good three or four months that went by while I was in that zone, and I just stayed in that zone. I really wanted to feel like that time was still around.
How did those albums affect your album?
When we started recording the album, I wanted a certain feel for it, so the intro track that starts off, I wanted it to be real heavy breakbeat-sounding, with those old horns type feel joints. Then as the album progressed, I really picked beats, and I selected and worked on shit that kind of came from an amalgamation of all those albums. I said, "I want to get a Black Moon ‘Enta Da Stage' type song," so we recorded "I Remember," and that's what's reflected to me. I even sampled Buckshot in that, for the hook. That's the type of feel that I wanted to go for on that.
Eastern Philosophy" is basically two things. It's an album that really dictates my life and how I felt growing up, being in the East Coast and coming up with hip-hop, and it reflects that type of sound I grew up loving. The second thing it is, it's kind of connected with the first one, it gets kids acquainted with that era of hip-hop. A lot of kids nowadays aren't really familiar with that early 90s shit. A lot of people try to replicate that shit, but it ends up falling short, so I wanted to really submerse myself in that time period as far as listening to albums, and I really wanted to make something that had that feeling go into it.
Which albums were you listening to ?
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Illmatic, Organized Konfusion, Stress, Reasonable Doubt, Gangstarr's Hard To Earn, the first Wu-Tang album, Liquid Swords. That's all I would allow myself to listen to. I didn't listen to any new shit, I wasn't really checking for any new albums, no newer songs. I was just really in that zone, and stayed in that zone.
How long was that time period you were listening to those albums?
Probably a good three or four months that went by while I was in that zone, and I just stayed in that zone. I really wanted to feel like that time was still around.
How did those albums affect your album?
When we started recording the album, I wanted a certain feel for it, so the intro track that starts off, I wanted it to be real heavy breakbeat-sounding, with those old horns type feel joints. Then as the album progressed, I really picked beats, and I selected and worked on shit that kind of came from an amalgamation of all those albums. I said, "I want to get a Black Moon ‘Enta Da Stage' type song," so we recorded "I Remember," and that's what's reflected to me. I even sampled Buckshot in that, for the hook. That's the type of feel that I wanted to go for on that.