My mother always had a few catchphrases growing up…you know, “God don’t like ugly!”, “if it was a snake, it would have bit you!”, “I brought you into this world and I can take you out!” (but everybody’s mother says that, tho). One that stuck with me to this day, however was “Practice makes perfect.” As a sample based artist, I’ve learned a lot by simply listening to the greats…Pete Rock, DJ Premier and J. Dilla (just to name a few) have all logged probably thousands of listens in my iPod. But practicing the things that they’ve shown me, over and over has been the real key.
“Mistress Jawns” is simply a display of that practice. Some of the samples I used for the project are famous, well known staples in hip-hop, but the personal challenge was to do something NEW with them, so that you automatically don’t go “aw, man, that’s the sample from ____!” (that is, if you know your samples/actually care about that sort of thing). The other source material was acquired from being bored on twitter and asking friends, “quick, give me a song to sample!” so I could sharpen my fangs during periods of down time. For months, these beats have soley served as house cleaning music, but I’ve decided to free them from their hard drive purgatory for the world to hear.
If you haven’t already, feel free to stream (or purchase!!!) “Mistress Jawns” here @ http://smallprofessor.bandcamp.com/album/mistress-jawnsx
Annnd in case you haven’t heard the other installments, they can be located @:
http://smallprofessor.bandcamp.com/album/beats-rhymes-jawns (Beats & Rhymes Jawns)
http://smallprofessor.bandcamp.com/album/elderly-jawns (Elderly Jawns)
Thank you – yes, YOU – for your support and listens, it’s very much
appreciated. ^_^
Peace!
- Small Professor (@smallpro)
