Love From The Underground

Big K.R.I.T. “4EvaNaDay (Theme)”

This track has one of the best choruses I’ve heard in a hip-hop track in a little while – basically two chorus hooks running parallel, as K.R.I.T.’s rhyme moves counter to a chipmunk soul sample that rises up sharply like a tea kettle whistle. This track also has one of my favorite by-products of sped-up R&B samples: The groovy, slow bass line that gets pitched up so it gets this sort of loose, plunky quality, as if all the strings on the instrument have been replaced with thick rubber bands. You hear this all over Kanye and RZA productions, and I just love the sound of it. If I was making music, either sample-based or live, I’d probably end up obsessed with emulating that tone.

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