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Old 02-24-2017, 05:59 AM
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Arrow Re: Hip-Hop Sampler background?

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Originally Posted by tuc70021 View Post
I recently acquired the Hip-Hop Sampler album (the one with the guy doing karate on the front) and have listened to it a couple of times now. Does anyone know anything about it, or why it was produced? Obviously it's a promo, but its track list strikes me as odd. A few hits, a couple B-sides, some less popular tracks, and 4 versions of Sure Shot.

Beastiemania also says that it's limited to 1250 copies, although I've never been able to verify that number. Why such an odd number made?

Anyway, just hoping somebody knows a little more than me about it!
I think that a lot of people, especially at the time that sample came out, saw the live instrumentation tracks as a distraction from the "hip hop" (more sample based) music. I know that when I got Check Your Head and Ill Com it was common for me to play only the sample based tracks. Just speculation, but I think this was an attempt to cater to that.

Also, keep in mind there are lots of bootlegs of this one.
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