I’m 24 and found “The Main Ingredient” when I was 18. EASILY one of the best albums I heard. I still put “Mecca and the Soul Brother” up there as well.
I still listen to Pete Rock and CL Smooth!!! That song “ When They reminisce Over You” is a whole vibe !!! Yes please give them their 🌸 flowers they are so underrated !!!🔥🤗💜
@@mic9check The reason I say that bc the matrix doesn’t give them awards and do biographies on them and uplift them as they should bc they don’t want the youth of this day to know nothing about and go back to that vibe fo sho!!!! They should be talked about as much as the others that are agents for the demise of the people but I’m sure they are decent and have morals and standards and are independent creators and can think for themselves not ruled by the mighty dollar so that wouldn’t be a good look for the machine!!! BTW I’m listening to them right nigh!!!!😂😂🤣🤣
You know what's underrated?? INI - Center Of Attention!! Whole album produced by Pete Rock and every track a BANGER!!!! Definitely in my Top 10 Hip Hop albums of all-time!
I always loved how Pete used the the shoutout from ATCQ‘s „Verses From The Abstract“ on „In The House“. The way the main sample matches with Vinia-Mojica‘s voice is perfect.
@@samthemac Tell Me he showed me his skills on that track. That is what makes this album a 6 mic album. He blacked out on Tell Me and Get On da Mic and It's On You. I so wish they did more video to the album. I'm so glad I found some people to talk about that album. We not just pushing it under table anymore. Could you imagine I Get Physical video in New York City.
I used to have a dual cassette player and would loop those snippets into a longer beat on a blank tape. Then would write some rhymes to put over it. I couldn't get enough hip-hop in those days!
The beat interludes changed the game. What Pete used and how he used it was crazy. He was doing things like taking a popular Billy Joel sample ("Just The Way You Are") and pairing it with a popular Bob James drum break ("Take Me to the Mardi Gras"). Unheard of at the time. The way he sampled Biz Markie and Big Daddy Kane's voices was unheard of as well. That album influenced so many producers and musicians.
@@MegaMarvelvsDC Absolutely!! Saw Pete Rock and CL Smooth live 10 years ago here in Switzerland and CL Smooth had the hardest flow, which I never anticipated from hearing his rapping-style on the albums! But live he rips the mic like you would never expect, he is one of the tightest Mc's I've ever seen, and I've seen most of 90's finest Mc's live (east to west)!!! The concert is still one of the best I've seen to this day! Of course Pete Rock was absolutely on point as well! You could see they wanted to rock the place and give it everything they got to share a dose of that Real Hip Hop! 😍 It was truly a Dream Come True for me, no accident that they are absolute legends and changed Hip Hop for ever! That concert was one of those moments where I truly could feel the essence of Hip Hop, that Hip Hop DNA!!
The crazy part about those two albums is that they wanted to make something like mecca on the second album but THE LABEL wanted them to make more of the smooth type of r&b type of album. This was said in a Pete Rock interview done over the last 2-3 years
THE MAIN INGREDIENT IS A CLASSIC RECORD! SITTING ON A RUFF O.G. AND THE CLEAR REISSUE AND THE MECCA AND THE SOUL BROTHER.....MUCH RESPECT TO BLAZE AND PETE ROCK AND OF COURSE CL SMOOTH!!!!!!!!!
Pete Rock back at that time was an impeccable DJ he had the sckest scratch patterns i ever heard not only that his music selection was was enormous he would take classic records and make a sound that was light years ahead of its time which makes up for his original sound i quess why he's known as the son of marley marl!!
Pete Rock is on my top 5 favorite super producer list. Mecca and the Soul Brother is a super classic. My all-time favorite Pete Rock remix is “ Shut Em Down by Public Enemy…
Great group top ten groups. Beatnuts. Nauty but nature Pete rock cl smooth Tribe called quest. Leaders of the new school. 5 underated groups give Them there roses please.
Pete rock one of 1st producer put soul samples on hip hop beat back 80' s and 90' s just listen too tha world is your by nas or 1st or 2nd Pete Rock & c.l smooth album or run dmc down with kings cut all type soul music sample and it was fire 🔥and put lil extra break beat at end ..good too see just blaze how that sound changed sound of hip hop. ...
Love the Pete/ C.L. convo here, especially talking about Pete Rock's production. Main Ingredient is definitely my fav of the 2 albums. It was so polished and put together that it still sounds fresh today. Not from a stand point of what's being played today, but more like simply the sound of it. Always loved the little interludes in between songs main ingredient like the one j dilla re-did for Blackstar song "little brother".
I’m ashamed,the only song from PR and CL I knew was TROY. I had no idea an album called ‘the main ingredient’ ever existed. I typed on Apple Music n some other shyt came on but I found it.listening to it now……amazing yo. I’m ashamed
Just Blaze is a Beat Nerd LOL. One of my favorite Producers though. He and Kanye had the early 2000s on lock. Main Ingredient was way better then Mecca too.
Back up back up back up….Talib you are definitely one of my top MC’s and Just Blaze you’re a beast…..BUT! yall wrong on this one champ….the fact that producers like Main Ingredients and MC’s like Mecca and The Soul Brother. It’s not about MC’s or producers…it’s about the error you grew up in and the album’s that influence you to love thing we call Hip Hop. I guarantee if you ask MC’s and producers 51 and older which album was better most will say “Mecca and The Soul Brother”. Just like Tribe Called Quest…my generation will say Low End Theory was the best album and your generation will most like say Midnight Marauders. I could break it down deeper but that’s for another day. Check it…you need to ask that same questions to DJ Premier, Large Professor, DJ Scratch,45 Kings and your boy Diamond D.. Anyway…love your videos Keep it up 💪🏾
…I totally disagree with Mecca and the Soul Brother being an OK album… that shit is a classic from the beats to the lyrics in 92 that album was the top tier of NYC Hip Hop… the Main Ingredient is a classic in its own but MATSB is the goat of Pete Rock and CL smooth’s career… this is before illmatic/ 36 Chambers/ Enter da Stage… Cl was the the man
I have to agree. I understand what Just is saying from a song to song technical standpoint. But no one is going to tell me that, from a technical standpoint, there is ANY song on Main Ingredient better than For Pete’s Sake. The hip hop production planets aligned on that one beat. It has at least 10 different chopped samples in one song. And everything matches in terms of rhythm and harmony. And he did that with an SP1200, that did not have Flex Pitch on it. So he was able to match baselines, melodies, and harmonies from at least 6 different records. That song is beyond genius.
Nah Main Ingredient is aight, but Mecca and The Soul Brotha was a defining piece for Pete Rock who showed never before seen chopping skills on MATSB.... I'mma keep it all the way fonky, I only remember two or three joints from the Main Ingredient bruh, ALL the joints on MATSB are classics! Look, Pete Rock is one of the faces on my Mt Rushmore of inspiration so I'm definitely not just a fan but a student...Bottom line, nothing moves a Pete Rock audience more than T.R.O.Y. if you've seen him live you'd know this....
Pete rock is talented contributor but he conflating facts and that makes him a lier carribean Brothers did not create an art form that is clearly black american. We waited for them to teach us how to mix music our relatives created and rhyme over it in our slang and style. Make it make sense sway?🥴 lost respect for dude and I had all his projects. Smh
Haha! I actually agree. Main Ingredient is a phenomenal album. But there are 2 joints on Mecca that already beat that album. For me it’s T.R.O.Y. and For Pete’s Sake.
So glad to have the Main Ingredient talked about like this. It was a master piece. I think CL matched the production perfectly
The Main Ingredient is one of the best produced albums of all-time .
In the Flesh is an all time banger 🔥🔥
I’m 24 and found “The Main Ingredient” when I was 18. EASILY one of the best albums I heard. I still put “Mecca and the Soul Brother” up there as well.
Worldwide is my shit.
@@angryyman8227 man..... you tellin me! th-cam.com/video/GUIHzqtRStI/w-d-xo.html
True indeed. It’s amazing. 🔥
Yes. As a producer, the main ingredient is thee Pete rock album. The album sends you somewhere else.
I think center of attention is his best work and the original petestrumentals is up there too
You could arguably say soul survivor is up there as his best work as well. From 94-2002 he was just in another level
Gratitude
Ps That Pete Rock Soul Survivor is amazing as well.
Soul Suvivor series intros are too much!!!!!!!!!!!Namaste
I still listen to Pete Rock and CL Smooth!!! That song “ When They reminisce Over You” is a whole vibe !!! Yes please give them their 🌸 flowers they are so underrated !!!🔥🤗💜
60.000.000 million plays of "T.R.O.Y" on Spotify alone, and "they" are underrated?
@@mic9check Yes they are Underrated. She is Right.
@@mic9check The reason I say that bc the matrix doesn’t give them awards and do biographies on them and uplift them as they should bc they don’t want the youth of this day to know nothing about and go back to that vibe fo sho!!!! They should be talked about as much as the others that are agents for the demise of the people but I’m sure they are decent and have morals and standards and are independent creators and can think for themselves not ruled by the mighty dollar so that wouldn’t be a good look for the machine!!! BTW I’m listening to them right nigh!!!!😂😂🤣🤣
You know what's underrated?? INI - Center Of Attention!! Whole album produced by Pete Rock and every track a BANGER!!!! Definitely in my Top 10 Hip Hop albums of all-time!
I always loved how Pete used the the shoutout from ATCQ‘s „Verses From The Abstract“ on „In The House“. The way the main sample matches with Vinia-Mojica‘s voice is perfect.
Love both Pete and CL albums!!! classics. 🙏🏻💎🎤
I Get Physical, Sun Won't Come Out and I Got a Love are my favorite 3 song stretch on an album
Get on the mic is 🔥
@@jamalevans1574 He was in his bag on that track CL that is
Yeah word. But "tell me"?... come on man!
@@samthemac Tell Me he showed me his skills on that track. That is what makes this album a 6 mic album. He blacked out on Tell Me and Get On da Mic and It's On You. I so wish they did more video to the album. I'm so glad I found some people to talk about that album. We not just pushing it under table anymore. Could you imagine I Get Physical video in New York City.
“ in the flesh” and “it’s on you” nourished my soul 💯
I like how snippets of beats got played in between songs on the 'main ingredient.' Always thought that was a game changer.
I used to have a dual cassette player and would loop those snippets into a longer beat on a blank tape. Then would write some rhymes to put over it. I couldn't get enough hip-hop in those days!
Yes
It was like Pete Rock was overloaded with bests he had make those dope snippets so that none of it would be wasted.
The beat interludes changed the game. What Pete used and how he used it was crazy. He was doing things like taking a popular Billy Joel sample ("Just The Way You Are") and pairing it with a popular Bob James drum break ("Take Me to the Mardi Gras"). Unheard of at the time. The way he sampled Biz Markie and Big Daddy Kane's voices was unheard of as well. That album influenced so many producers and musicians.
UGK was influenced by that too. Bun B said it.
The main ingredient is definitely in my top five. Cl has one of the dopest voices in the game. And Pete rock on production is always a good thing.
For real CL is seriously underrated
@@MegaMarvelvsDC Absolutely!! Saw Pete Rock and CL Smooth live 10 years ago here in Switzerland and CL Smooth had the hardest flow, which I never anticipated from hearing his rapping-style on the albums! But live he rips the mic like you would never expect, he is one of the tightest Mc's I've ever seen, and I've seen most of 90's finest Mc's live (east to west)!!! The concert is still one of the best I've seen to this day! Of course Pete Rock was absolutely on point as well! You could see they wanted to rock the place and give it everything they got to share a dose of that Real Hip Hop! 😍 It was truly a Dream Come True for me, no accident that they are absolute legends and changed Hip Hop for ever! That concert was one of those moments where I truly could feel the essence of Hip Hop, that Hip Hop DNA!!
All The Places, It’s on You, and Take you There some of my favorite beats from that album
"Tell me" from main ingredient. Put that on right now - one of the illest, banging smoothest and hype joints on the planet.
Can't wait for the full interview...🙏🏾🙏🏾
Always loved Just Blaze.
PETE'S INTRO LOOPS......GAWD. THAT'S WHERE I'M GOING WITH MY PRODUCTION AS WELL, TOO INSPIRED.
Here for it 🙌🏾
lot of fun in this episode!
The Main Ingredient is a dope album.
It's a 6 mic album
steve pacaro from toto wrote the arrangement
Interesting conversation! I'll have to go back and play those albums back to back. "Worldwide" is my favorite song between them.
You can tell how PR grew and evolved as a producer on "Main Ingredient" album. It was SO many samples he used in ONE song on that album!
The Dynamic of Phenomenal Opposite Attract(s)'g.
The crazy part about those two albums is that they wanted to make something like mecca on the second album but THE LABEL wanted them to make more of the smooth type of r&b type of album. This was said in a Pete Rock interview done over the last 2-3 years
THE MAIN INGREDIENT IS A CLASSIC RECORD! SITTING ON A RUFF O.G. AND THE CLEAR REISSUE AND THE MECCA AND THE SOUL BROTHER.....MUCH RESPECT TO BLAZE AND PETE ROCK AND OF COURSE CL SMOOTH!!!!!!!!!
Main Ingredient was highly inspirational to me as well. One of those records that made me as an Mc and producer
The Main Ingredient is a masterpiece album.
Excellent interview. Thanks! Justin is completely brilliant.
Musicianship. At its finest. Thank you!
I still have those albums in rotation and to their point I listen either for different reasons intently
Pete Rock back at that time was an impeccable DJ he had the sckest scratch patterns i ever heard not only that his music selection was was enormous he would take classic records and make a sound that was light years ahead of its time which makes up for his original sound i quess why he's known as the son of marley marl!!
Who feel like the most influential producers of the first golden age of hip-hop?
MARLEY MARL/PETE ROCK/DJ PREMIER/DR.DRE/RZA..
Premier, Dre, Q-Tip, RZA, Erick Sermon, Large Professor, Marley Marl, DJ Quik...
King 44
Biz Markie seriously bizness.
@@markoz673bajen8 You mean 45 King
I Get Physical off that record is my jam. I love that track
Pete Rock is on my top 5 favorite super producer list. Mecca and the Soul Brother is a super classic. My all-time favorite Pete Rock remix is “ Shut Em Down by Public Enemy…
Great that this album is getting the respect it deserves.
Great group top ten groups.
Beatnuts.
Nauty but nature
Pete rock cl smooth
Tribe called quest.
Leaders of the new school.
5 underated groups give
Them there roses please.
Mecca and Main Ingredient are 2 of the greatest hip hop albums in history
I was 21 when I discovered The Main Ingredient in 2013 and it has *been* my sh*t ever since.
Pete influenced a lot of producers.
Pete rock and CL smooth, Mount Vernon NY finest
Most slept on album of all time
Just Blaze!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The main ingredient was the first Pete rock album I ever bought, I didn’t really know who he was and dammmmm was I in for a surprise !!! Classic Album
Yo, I loved that album from the jump!
Pete rock one of 1st producer put soul samples on hip hop beat back 80' s and 90' s just listen too tha world is your by nas or 1st or 2nd Pete Rock & c.l smooth album or run dmc down with kings cut all type soul music sample and it was fire 🔥and put lil extra break beat at end ..good too see just blaze how that sound changed sound of hip hop. ...
Woop woop the main ingredient
His favorite song is It Aint Hard to Tell that's hard af 🔥
In The Flesh is fuckin dope my whole house moves up n down when I turn it on
and don't forget the other masterpiece "Soul Survivor"!
Main Ingredient TOP 10 group album of all time
Love the Pete/ C.L. convo here, especially talking about Pete Rock's production. Main Ingredient is definitely my fav of the 2 albums. It was so polished and put together that it still sounds fresh today. Not from a stand point of what's being played today, but more like simply the sound of it.
Always loved the little interludes in between songs main ingredient like the one j dilla re-did for Blackstar song "little brother".
I’m ashamed,the only song from PR and CL I knew was TROY. I had no idea an album called ‘the main ingredient’ ever existed. I typed on Apple Music n some other shyt came on but I found it.listening to it now……amazing yo. I’m ashamed
"Worldwide" is probably my favorite song on there. "Carmel City" is another.
That De La Sweater.. 🔥
well said!
JUST BLAAAAAAZE
Love that Lp
Yeah, Main Ingredient is that shit! The beats in betweeen songs go hard even.
Didn't somebody make a album off the beats in between the songs?
Whole album is great but the first like 5 beats on main ingredient are masterpieces
Anyone notice the connection with Bollywood music and GoGo music around late 80s?
'THE MAIN INGREDIENT' WAS 1994 NOT 95'..THEIR BEST AND LAST ALBUM..
*LATE 1994/NOVEMBER 8TH..
It took place around late 1994 early 95 because it shout out both years when its saying in the 94and live for the 95 so yea 94-95 season in hip hop
It's basically Mecca (Part 2) but more polished... Not my vibe.
Just Blaze is a Beat Nerd LOL. One of my favorite Producers though. He and Kanye had the early 2000s on lock. Main Ingredient was way better then Mecca too.
Where is just blaze from ? Brooklyn/NJ/PA . I can't remember
Back up back up back up….Talib you are definitely one of my top MC’s and Just Blaze you’re a beast…..BUT! yall wrong on this one champ….the fact that producers like Main Ingredients and MC’s like Mecca and The Soul Brother. It’s not about MC’s or producers…it’s about the error you grew up in and the album’s that influence you to love thing we call Hip Hop. I guarantee if you ask MC’s and producers 51 and older which album was better most will say “Mecca and The Soul Brother”. Just like Tribe Called Quest…my generation will say Low End Theory was the best album and your generation will most like say Midnight Marauders. I could break it down deeper but that’s for another day. Check it…you need to ask that same questions to DJ Premier, Large Professor, DJ Scratch,45 Kings and your boy Diamond D.. Anyway…love your videos Keep it up 💪🏾
Steve Porcaro (Toto)
Nah CL talked about way more than just woman.. i know cuzz i was there ..😋😋
In the flesh
…I totally disagree with Mecca and the Soul Brother being an OK album… that shit is a classic from the beats to the lyrics in 92 that album was the top tier of NYC Hip Hop… the Main Ingredient is a classic in its own but MATSB is the goat of Pete Rock and CL smooth’s career… this is before illmatic/ 36 Chambers/ Enter da Stage… Cl was the the man
I have to agree. I understand what Just is saying from a song to song technical standpoint. But no one is going to tell me that, from a technical standpoint, there is ANY song on Main Ingredient better than For Pete’s Sake. The hip hop production planets aligned on that one beat. It has at least 10 different chopped samples in one song. And everything matches in terms of rhythm and harmony. And he did that with an SP1200, that did not have Flex Pitch on it. So he was able to match baselines, melodies, and harmonies from at least 6 different records. That song is beyond genius.
@@MockManor That song is my favorite and CL Smooth fit like a glove!
Interesting! To me... Mecca and the soul brother album is classic. I don't think the Main Ingredient comes close to the production on the first album.
Well im an Emcee and i like the Main ingredient better.
tread carefully Kweli, as an all around MC, songwriter, or live performer; you're not on CL's level
Nah Main Ingredient is aight, but Mecca and The Soul Brotha was a defining piece for Pete Rock who showed never before seen chopping skills on MATSB.... I'mma keep it all the way fonky, I only remember two or three joints from the Main Ingredient bruh, ALL the joints on MATSB are classics! Look, Pete Rock is one of the faces on my Mt Rushmore of inspiration so I'm definitely not just a fan but a student...Bottom line, nothing moves a Pete Rock audience more than T.R.O.Y. if you've seen him live you'd know this....
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All I gotta say is......Now pass my shades
both are masterpieces...but Mecca and The Soul Brother is better!
What kinda sweater do just have on?
Sorry but main ingredient is not touching mecca and the soul brother
Pete rock is talented contributor but he conflating facts and that makes him a lier carribean Brothers did not create an art form that is clearly black american. We waited for them to teach us how to mix music our relatives created and rhyme over it in our slang and style. Make it make sense sway?🥴 lost respect for dude and I had all his projects. Smh
What about the influence kanye n bink had on you? Swagger jacker
Hater just blaze is the real 🐐 legend
Too bad "Main Ingredient" doesn't have a T.R.O.Y. so that pretty much kills his argument.
Yea it does….listen harder….
@@Darie2006 I've been owning this album way before you we're conceived so STFU.
Haha! I actually agree. Main Ingredient is a phenomenal album. But there are 2 joints on Mecca that already beat that album. For me it’s T.R.O.Y. and For Pete’s Sake.
As dope as M&TSB is, start to finish, TMI is the better album…
Pete used Foundational American samples, yet he says hip hop is 90% Jamaican.