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Old 09.28.2014, 11:58 AM   #1
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I just heard this song from a passing car. Only about three measures of it. It instantly caught my attention because it sounded SO FUCKING FAMILIAR, but for the life of me I couldn't put my finger on it.

I know I know it... And I'm a little OCD/neurotic/ADD so naturally I put together this mock up of what the music might look like on paper. Forget the fact that an A note is depicted; it's just a place holder. I can't say what note the beat carried but it feels like it may have been SOME note, played on repeat by a piano or keyboard, hitting in time with the actual beat.

The flute sample sounded like an 8-note scale segment, and is indicated in the mock-up by the red. In that first measure it hits exactly on the note where the red line begins and carries over into the next measure, and so on and so on.

I've gotta know what this was. I will remember at some point, but if any of you can hell me I'll owe you a coke.

Oh and the rapping was pretty ferocious. Not gangsta, not hardcore... But the emcee was definitely spitting. It was an energetic and semi-aggressive flow. Sounded like it may have been political, but I don't fuckin know.

Ugh. Driving me nuts!!

Anyone?

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Old 09.28.2014, 01:48 PM   #2
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the image link is broken, but yr description made me think of "Off The Books" by The Beatnuts. Long shot...
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Old 09.29.2014, 09:04 AM   #3
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Old 09.29.2014, 10:45 AM   #4
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it's probably because the link has no .jpg extension at the end. You can still view it when you do a right-click on the icon and select View Image, or whatever it's called in your browser & language.

no clue what track it is, but I don't know hiphop and can't read notes ;-)
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Old 09.29.2014, 02:59 PM   #5
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Its not the beatnuts song i guessed right?
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Old 09.29.2014, 07:27 PM   #7
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^what a great fucking post. I was trying to think of that same Timbaland song. And damn, "Sally Got a One Track Mind" was awesome.

there's also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mZsC2JU2S4

and that Beatnuts song I mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA2O4ERoBiU which now that I hear it is more vibes than flute huh? Hahahaha.
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Old 09.29.2014, 07:30 PM   #9
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Old 10.05.2014, 07:05 AM   #10
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Did the OP get to the bottom of this yet?
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Old 10.05.2014, 12:46 PM   #11
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Unfortunately I can't remember what that fleeting moment of the song sounded like clearly enough to say whether any of the suggested tracks are correct.

Once I started going through the posted songs, they blended together and booted the original tune out of my head, and the pic I [failed to correctly] post is nowhere near exact enough to be of much help.

The thing is, I know I own this song. This has happened to me before, and I have learned to shut off my OCD so I don't go mad... all I can do is listen to my hip hop albums and wait for it to slap me in the face.
Fucking sucks, but what can Ya do?
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