BRAINSTORM FREESTYLE!
Wow. A great freestyle from Mr Excel @ Everything over “Shake It Down”, one of the BEST cuts off of Welcome To Detroit, one of my TOP 5 desert island albums of ALL TIME- EASY!
(NOT just because he covered one of my pops’ songs either..."Think Twice” for the don’tknows)
I can’t help but think of Dilla’s notes from the liners of that brilliant disc:
Shake It Down was done by mistake. Check It. I had a beat block for a minute, I told myself “ Get to ass in the basement and make some shit, if you don’t, somebody else will. No lie, i looped the first thing th needle touched some HAPPY ASS FOLK SONG SHIT (just my luck) Trying to be funny, i filtered the loop. After passing a few blunts i thought of some rhymes to it so i finished it. Enjoy. Oh yeh, beat heads, the loop unfilters at the end. What is it?”
Perfect ‘producerial essence’, and perfect timing, as Dilla passed 3 years ago 2/10. RIP to the god.

2 Comments
sidewayys 1 year, 5 months ago
great track, my favorite from the album. brain kills it!
DrewDown 1 year, 5 months ago
Good to see Brain got his setup workin. Good track.
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