Breaking Down Nas’ “It Ain’t Hard To Tell” | Large Professor
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Today is the 30th anniversary of Nas’ Illmatic. So today, we’re gonna talk about yet ANOTHER incredible producer who worked on this album: Large Professor. He produced multiple songs on this album, but today we’re looking specifically at the last song on the album “It Ain’t Hard To Tell”. This song has it’s own journey as there are multiple version of this song, but… well the easiest way to navigate this is to… use a metaphor.
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Nas
Illmatic
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30th Anniversary
It Ain't Hard To Tell
Nas Will Prevail
Remix
Chopped
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Have you listened to The Brand New Heavies album Heavy Rhyme Experience Vol 1? It's got Main Source, Gang Starr, Black Sheep, Pharcyde, and others.
I swear CHOPPED must be sponsored by jordan almonds, which is a shame because I thought reality TV was the most ethical genre
That Michael Jackson flip is one of my favorite sample flips of all time. Can’t believe this album is 30 and still sounds so fresh
The first time I heard "It Ain't Hard to Tell" was like the first time I heard "Sucker MCs" or "My Melody." It was one of those moments.
@@KtotheGListening to this album for the first time in 94 gave me goosebumps.
Human nature is written by Steve Porcaro, dug up by Quincy Jones and retexted by John Bettis and sung by Michael Jackson. Toto was the backing group. But that is just a detail.
"It Ain't Hard to Tell" was my first lesson in timing. I considered "Human Nature" a slow song because the kick and snare happen on the 1 and 3 respectively. Then Large Pro flips it and I'm like, "Oh, it's actually mid-tempo."
East Coast hip hop hits different on cloudy days for some reason… ☁️🔥🔥🔥
You in a New York State of Mind.
😂😂@@paperbagbrown1326
Frrr. Like as ur listening to a beat coming from the East Coast, its like ur in whole different zone. The Vibe and everything.
Facts...I always play the purple tape on rainy dayz
Dam I thought only I thought like that. Crazy.
Happy 30 to Illmatic. The Hip-Hop Bible.
The perfect outro to the perfect album. I love the progression of this record: it goes from dark, dour, gritty (NY State of Mind) to light, playful, maybe even a little optimistic (It Ain’t Hard to Tell). I genuinely think it’s the best hip-hop album ever recorded and it actually gets *better* with time. 10/10
This is the song that made me fall in love with this album and ultimately call it the Greatest Album of All Times.
The remix has the greatest vocal sample of ALL TIME! Extra P made Biz Markie saying "recognized" sound like he's saying "Nas"!
That was DJ Premier scratching that into Nas is Like, right
@IAuMatu there is 4 versions, demo, rough, lp, remix
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G'morning my friend 🔥
@@diggingthegreats salutations
Large Professor was definitely inspired by Grandmaster Vic (veteran and creator of the blend tape) when he made this beat.
Gotta give a shout out to the Large Professor. Thought I lost his number but I left it on my dresser.
Dj premier, Pete Rock, Q-Tip, Large professor, and LES one hell of a production team for a debut album
@aaronconner6562: Some would say his album was the first that prioritized "super producers".
Been in my Nas bag all day, you're right on time! 30 year anniversary + a new Nas and Preemo track today + a digging the greats Nas drop?! LFG!
The way Large Pro flipped that MJ beat… maaaannnnnn!! He was definitely on another level when he made that beat 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Large Pro is so underrated. Breaking Atoms is one of the best hip hop albums of all time. It’s aged so well over the years
When it came out, I couldn’t get any of my friends into that album. I don’t know what it was. But several years after it came out, I started to notice people listening to it. Maybe it was just ahead of its time or it took a bit to settle in with people or something.
@@Mr.Dobalina113it was Mature Grown Up East Coast Rap Music when it dropped. So Proud to Say I Loved and Respected. There Sound when Breaking Atoms Dropped.
Looking At The Front 🚪 ✨…..is Crazy, and One of the Best Rap Songs ever Made✅
Large Professor is the foundation of the New York Boom Bap sound, you can hear it in his earlier production for Rakim, which sadly he was never officially credited for.
When I first heard this I was 16 painting fences outside. It was middle of the whole pandemic and I make it sound like a long time ago but to me listening to this with sweat off my back in a really bad neighborhood it felt like the music was speaking to me. Forever grateful for Illmatic and ofc Digging The Greats 🙏🏼
Man, I just finished listening to the album, and I can’t believe it’s 30 years old today.
This style of sampling was so much better. Nowadays every song is just using the exact same beat as an old classic, but adding a bunch of awful autotune and actually making the song worse.
there's lots of amazing music that keeps the spirit, try The Alchemist 👍
Kool G Rap also has that horn break sample in his song "Truly Yours".
Just got my Illmatic Cd in the mail. Gonna watch this and bump it. Happy 30th🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
*"When I was 12, I went to hell for snuffing Jesus"* was one of the most epic lyrics in Hip-Hop history. It had everyone in NYC, hearing it for the first time, slapping, then holding thier cheeks like Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. 😂😂😂😂
I said the same thing for years on end. Nas delivering lines like that and “my thoughts react like Stephen Spielberg” in 1990-91 was a staple in Hip Hop. The God was always Bold and confident.
I was always partial to “…slamming MCs on cement… ‘cause verbally, I'm iller than a AIDS patient”. It was like, ‘daaaaaamn! No he didn’t!’. Nas’s whole part in Live at the Barbecue is just untouchable. Listening to it back in the day with my boy’s was like receiving sacrament to us… it was a religious experience!
Best rap album ever. Period
10/10 video! Q-tip also used N.T. on his remix of the world is yours
Another chef cooking 🔥
@@diggingthegreats And for Breath and Stop as well
Shout out to everyone who had the cassette single like I did.
Large pro also used that NT horn sample in "just hangin out"...I think..I'm pretty sure...I feel like it's in there somewhere
FYI Nas & Michael Jackson weren't labelmates they were on 2 different labels under Sony music & still it was easy to make it possible to clear the sample.
I love videos like this. 😅 Like, I know all the trivia, all the samples and everything. But the way you tie it all together - the “Chopped” analogy is brilliant! Dare I say, it’s “chef’s kiss!”👨🏾🍳🤌🏾 Great video. Thanks for sharing!
Happy 30th Illmatic 💐
I can't say I expected a Chopped reference in an Illmatic video, but fuck me I guess.
Pac actually did a really good sample of Human Nature, which was supposed to be on his Makaveli album but I’m guessing they couldn’t clear it? Not sure. But it’s called “N*ggaz Nature”. Hits really hard. I love it.
I know at first this may sound a little bit cringe, but large professor and Nas, it seems like they could be little and bigger brother, father and son, & /or dare I say a gay couple. Now why would I say this because it seems like when those two go into the studio they seem to read each other's minds very well and these projects come more effortlessly than working with anyone else, even DJ premier.
Nas got that title from a Main Source track off "Breaking Atoms". I forget what track but in it theres a part where LP says "it ain't hard to tell".
The stories you tell are entertaining. Thanks for the work you do. ❤
coincidentally premo and nas just dropped a song to tease their new album today
Salute to you brother. You are literally breaking it down for real.
Respectfully request a break down of song if possible?
New York State of mind remix by Nas.
haven't finished the video yet but I know it's gonna be dope.
You gotta do a breakdown on ‘Memory Lane’. Now THAT track went hard!
Nas will prevail is great
I don’t know Mayne,that 5 second freeze pose was kind of cool.
Now if it went to a minute, now we’re entering Doctor Evil awkward villain laughing scene territory.☕️🤭
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30 years???
when i graduated high school if you said a record was 30 years old that meat it was released in 1959 which was OLD AF!!!.. now they say 30 years old and that's when i was in college😖😖😖😖
We are now our parents 🤣
4:29 Teddy Riley did the remix, The actual producer is Brian Alexander Morgan
Yes, and actually, as someone corrected in another comment - Teddy Riley is credited, but he didn't actually do it!
Much respect to your work bruh! You truly get it in!! I always look forward to your videos!! This was another solid upload!! This was one of MJ's hottest songs & my favorite Producer's have done it justice!! Incredible work!! We the hip hop, boom bap & beat maker sample heads truly enjoy it!
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Swear I never clicked so fast fr.
Theres 3 versions. 4 if you count remix
Why didnt you talk about 2nd version
Good shit man! Always love what you're doing on the channel. Can't wait for some Outkast breakdowns😁
"Human Nature" was produced by Quincy Jones, who produced the albums "Off the Wall", "Thriller" and "Bad". "Right Here" was produced by Teddy Riley, who was one of the main producers on "Dangerous".
“Nas will prevail” is my favorite song of his
*For Millennials/Gen Z that are wondering:* The EQing to get single sounds out of a sample is called, "Multing". It's our version of stems before you could use AI to lift them cleaner. Which--isn't necessarily better. Multing gave you the extra seasoning with some leakage from the surrounding sounds/frequencies with the option to add a little more, paprika so to speak if you needed it.
Always liked the SWV remix but didn’t realize it‘s role in this classic. Both beats ended up on the songs they belonged to. The It Ain’t Hard to Tell beat is timeless.
Incredible song-had both the original and the Biz Mark sample remix taped off radio early 94. Illmatic is timeless. Another great video
Speaking of N.T. you should do some videos on The Road To The Riches album by Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
Best version of the song is (Nas - It Aint Hard To Tell (Original/Unreleased Version) (1993) (Complete/High Quality) Broadcasted November 19, 1993, more BASS and different fade out.
Don’t let Brian Alexander Morgan hear you say “Right Here/Human Nature” was produced by Teddy Riley. 😂😂😂
IT AIN'T HARD TO TELL
that Digging the Greats is the GOAT
Make a video about it was written
He forgot to add both Large Professor and Premier have the same birthday 3-21
I’m so happy you talk about how you used to freeze, that was so weird 😂. But, every TH-camr does something offbeat when they’re just starting.
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I noticed Chris Brown on "She ain't you" used this same sample. One of the most satisfying sounds to sample in music
The first time I ever heard this beat was like a lightning bolt struck me. One of the best of all time
Teddy Riley didn’t really do that remix per Brian Alexander Morgan on the R&B Money podcast.
Rumor has it the Neptunes actually made the beat while they were mentoring under Teddy Riley. You can hear Pharrell on the intro and he actually has a writing credit for the song.
Great catch! Thank you for the correction - he is credited but it wasn't actually him
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This was another version first played on Westwoods UK radio show before the actual single came out.
If im not mistaken the sample you had in purple, L.P. used for one of their own songs for main source.
Up to about 30 years ago, musicians recorded some music for future generations and retired, as they die off , music will to, as AI takes over and no one knows how to play an instrument, instruments will no longer be produced for lack of demand, buy you a guitar, bass, drums while you can and record NEW music, be creative to carry things while we can, AI will never be able to duplicate human rhythms, and beats, thus the best dance music
I must have CTE because I also hear the drums from "Vibrant Thing" sampled from NT. I hear a lot of songs just buried in my mind from these samples mentioned 🥺
This guy looks so much like James Gandolfini it's actually quite distracting
it’s crazy u mention chopped … we have a show where we give out 3 samples to 5 competing producers and have them make something without looping … 2nd rd 2 producers advance and another sample is added and a range of a tempo (ex: 85-95bmp) where they get a half hr to make another one with the 4 samples and time sig … it’s called EO-Beat challenge … done over zoom and streamed here and kick @diggingthegreats it be dope if u checked it out maybe judge one day 😊 .. we are looking to do a live version of it .. i think ull dig it (no pun intended) … love your vids!! Blessings brother! 🙏
4:23 to 4:29 Brandon the song was produced by Pharrell Williams here the four count at the beginning of the song.
My favourite Nas song of All Time.
I was waiting the whole video for a corny joke about chopped/sample chopping and it never came.
Is DJ Premier not the best producer to never use a live vocal for the hooks on his tracks, with the exception of Gang Starr?
This album defines hip hop in its natural form before she went corporate.(POP)
"We're getting into the weeds of the show"
A kitchen and 420 joke in the same line, you dog.
Does anyone by any chance remenber a french hip Hop Song from the nineties where „for what it‘s worth“ was sampled?
Do American'a call the main meal the entrée and the entrée the appetizer?
Love the video man, just that appetizer entrée thing tripped me out
Idk there was a Human Nature remix that was also in the movie Free Willy! Not just Will you be there.
30 years is crazy 😮
THERES AN MJ SAMPLE!? I know this finna be fire
What song is played in the background from 2:17 to 2:46???
It Ain’t Hard to Tell is also a song that belongs on any 420 playlists. Happy 4/20!
Excellent presentation. Guys like you are doing great work in the art.
Theres actually another version of It Aint Hard To Tell from 1993 with different drums and slightly different verse/hook structure with a spoken outro too.
Honestly as a massive Toto lover i always love anything that samples Human Nature
Thanks for the Video and thanks for the link to the extended version! 👍👍🎁🎁
It was great hearing the samples broken down, great job
fav channel of all time
love what you do. please make a video on nas verbal intercourse verse.
Illmatic is so good my man literally needs to make a whole video per song lmao
I always thought that horn sound was a woman squealing. 🧐😏
I love MF Doom’s remix of Ain’t Hard To Tell also
Babe wake up dig dropped another banger
Yoooooooo, you made me laugh at the very end. Props!
30 Years Later !! #illmatic the best album in hip hop history !! No debate 📖
You’re the man! Thanks for sharing your insight on what these geniuses created. Really makes me appreciate the craft on a deeper level
Definitely signing up for the Patreon asap, so tired of the TH-cam copyright nonsense. Kudos to you for trimming these videos just right to fly under the algorithms radar 😂
Wow Illmatic was 30 years ago so crazy!
I have a question on 'New York State of Mind' in one of the bars Nas has a line where he says 'I'm an addict for sneakers' ... I wondered if that was the lyric that spurned Raekwon's track 'Sneakers' from the 1999 'Immobilarity' album? Anyway these are just crazy curiosities that enter my brain sometimes years later. 😅 Guess we would have to ask the Chef ... in keeping with your cooking analogy 😊
Greatest album of all time.
SWV’s Right Here was produced by Brian Alexander Morgan and Allen Gordon Jr. AKA Allstar. Teddy Riley added additional Keys.
The one version I got on a Columbia sampler cd it was sampling the Great Biz Markie from" Nobody beats the Biz" produced by the sampler master mind Marley Marl 🎤🎧💽💾🎹📀💿
From the… spliff that I lift and inhale