Smooth B on Tracy Chapman Taking All the Publishing for 'Sometimes I Rhyme Slow' (Part 5)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ส.ค. 2024
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In this clip, Smooth B speaks about Nice & Smooth's debut album "Funky for You" being big, but their follow up, "Ain't a Damn Thing Changed," being much bigger. He went on to speak about being one of the first hip-hop acts to do a Spanish version of a song with "Hip-Hop Junkies." Smooth B also spoke about sampling Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" on "Sometimes I Rhyme Slow," and he added that Chapman took most of the publishing. He then added that both Prince and Elton John gave them much more fair deals with a 50/50 split. - บันเทิง
"no static got an automatic, too much of anything makes you an addict..." I loved that song.
Teasing, skeezin, also pleasin/ don't asks why I got my own reasons/
@Nova Love, thanks Queen for all of the love and support. Make sure that you get my new single called, "before."
Nova Love I say that all the time," no static, got an automatic."
Oooohhhh Lawddddd Nova Love!!! 😍
Yasss!
NIce & Smooth - one of the most criminally underrated groups
Facts!!!
thanks for the love and support. make sure you get my new single called, "before."
The Legendary Smooth B all respect to u fam u a legend in the game
@@thelegendarysmoothb5751 looking forward to more content on your channel. Please consider doing a series on where you break down stories behind some of your music past & present
Das Efx wiped em out but I loved their era. That was sufficient to the legend of the early 90's.
This guy is a legend weather you guys know it or not.
* whether
Respect
Facts💯
I'm 40.... An OG for real.
FACTS. I'm 41 years old I grew up in Harlem and this man is a legend.
He's good at interviews. Omg, he has so much energy 💯😂
@Bronze Cartier 😂😂😂😂🤦🏾♀️
He one of the dudes you vibe with at the bar and yall talking like he a family member.
I bet u would let him smash first night.
@@Chance007 Original post was 53 mins ago. In less than 1 hour you come in here with some bull$hit! Not other ppl at all just your a$$. Disrespectful and lower jaw hinge replacement worthy!!
@@jamesanderson3913 calm down sir
Shout out to Prince for letting Nice & Smooth live because he turned down many people who wanted to sample him.
fact king. thanks for all of the love and support @Two Cents
The Legendary Smooth B No problem. Long time supporter. I still got the CD’s in my collection.
@@thelegendarysmoothb5751 salute to u King...Much love.
What song of his did they sample?
@@jeferothstein2451 starfish and coffee
"Sometimes I Rhyme Slow" is one of the songs that made me fall in love with Hip Hop. I has my mom buy the cassette of that album.
@Crisis Ice, thanks fam for all of the love and support
@@thelegendarysmoothb5751 no problem, OG!!!
Tracy Chapman: Sometimes I ROB slow sometimes I ROB quick...!!
Hahaha!! She was about her money! No hate!
@@theagbaman she didn't want that ......so she hit em up. That's hate.
I mean, she literally wrote the music...
@@dogsandyoga1743 So. .....the instrumental? .....she could've been generous and did like everyone else and did 50%. They had respect but she didn't care. The fact that nobody els sampled her music tells you what it is.
@Damien Jones they DID .....didn't you hear him?
Tracy Chapman got fed up of wasting time in the unemployment line, sitting around waiting for promotion.😁
Tracy is gonna rise up
And get her share
Tracy is gonna rise up
And take what's hers... 100%
@@comadrejasarpias7632 when you know, you know.😁
Nice and Smooth was legit working for Tracy Chapman
Ok clown
When their songs use to come on in the club back in the days, the whole spot would go crazy!
Oooh we! I mean Muhammad Ali..
@Shillz Da Realz Podcast, thanks for all of the love and support, KING
@@thelegendarysmoothb5751 Super salute OG! Ya'll were the soundtrack for NY streets and Lo-Lifes during that era. I know gangsters that start crying when they hear Nice & Smooth records because it brings back to many good memories. We were in them clubs every night! The Car Wash, Cafe Wah, Octagon, Red Zone, The Muse! I remember seeing ya'll perform about 3 times in one week! No matter how many times we seen ya'll perform we would act like it was the first time, because all the shows would be different. Ya'll were putting that work in for real!
I also remember the first time meeting you through Special Ed for that show in Providence Rhode Island. I don't know if you remember. It was with Ice Tea, Smooth The Hustler and His Brother Trigger. That night was a movie too!
Smooth B is STILL that dude!
thanks for all of the love and support
The spanish version was on the Maxi-single. Showing my age with that statement. Lol. The instrumental was on there too...
And the video was 🔥🔥
haha yes sir had it too!
Yep... I thought it was on the maxi single
I had that single!
Ky Rascoe showing my age too... maxi singles lol.
My dude hit that note in spanish lol he sounded pretty good tho 🇲🇽
He use to write for Bobby Brown
He sings in Spanish better than me! 👏👏👏👏
Word
@YES WE CAN who the Fuck are you??? Let me guess some old angry ass nonrelevent dude got nothing better to do than talk shit online! Sounds about right don't it 😂😂😂
@YES WE CAN Apparently not at the moment! 😂😂😂
@@THEDOPEDYDOPESHOW 😂💀💀
@YES WE CAN 😂😂😂
“I guess that’s why they call it the blues” in Spanish sounds damn good
You can't be mad if someone doesn't want you using their music/sounds/sample. That's their intellectual property and right. The good and bad of sampling.
Oh my goodness this is the first post that I've seen on this subject that makes sense.
Doubt he was mad. All he said was she could have did 50/50 with them. It was only the beat that was sampled they switched up things and used their own lyrics so it ain’t like they totally ripped off her song.
She still foul for doing that
@@zealousjay1993She said gimme the loot
@@zealousjay1993not foul at all, they’re lucky she even let them clear it.. Sting took all the publishing from Missing You P Diddy. When rappers sample R&B songs and rock songs for their singles, if the original song was a hit then the original. Compser usually asks for 79-90% of the pub.
Tracy ain’t foul it’s business.
I'm from kalifornia , but hip hop junkies was all that in my era
Peace King. Thanks for all of the love and support. I've been living in Los Angeles for over 10 years now in the Valley :). make sure you pick up my new single called, "before."
One of my top Hip Hop Groups. Nice and Smooth
thanks for all of the love and support. I am a solo artist now so please check out my flaming new single called, "before."
I need this guy's energy 😎
He comes from a time when you had to have your own unique personality. That's why they had Yo MTV Raps trading cards. Most of these guys had superhero appeal. Nowadays these sorry muthafuckas have boring names like Travis Scott... sounds like a 3rd baseman for the Brewers.
my energy is always with my true and living hardcore supporters @Oratile Kgaogelo
@@thelegendarysmoothb5751 salute King, you've now blessed me with that energy 🎯. You're a true legend 😎. Been enjoying the interview clips💯. Also saw the one on No Jumper
You gotta interview Camp Lo.
💯💯💯💯
Fact.
Yessssss! "You need to come inside and check lo relax yourself and let the sugar lo flow" I love them 💯
@@novalove4790
It's raining Alize I'm floating through the Holland Tunnel swervin!
Those Brothas were the coolest ever.
They just put out an album with Pete Rock the other day. Legends!
He killed that Spanish freestyle ☠☠☠🔥🔥🔥
Tracy is trying not to be forgotten. Her lifeline is still music and when the samples start being bigger than you, a lot of times ppl don't wanna hear the original; just the sample. Plus she has a high sense of artistic integrity.
That's the price of owning your own. Much respect to the god that is Tracy Chapman.
Who is tracy chapman?
Maybe she just doesn't like what these rappers say in their music? I know guys like Stevie Wonder and Quincy Jones have had rappers change their lyrics on songs that sampled their music, refusing the clear it otherwise.
@John Peaches you're kidding, right? She's def a legend.
She's awesome what a talent!
I agree Tracy is a treasure. She didn't sell out an she kept to her roots. You gonna sample fast car than you gonna have to pay.
Met Smooth B and Greg Nice in Manhattan,90 or 91,two of the coolest brothers, period. 😎
"He say, She Say/I heard it through the grapevine"
thanks for all of the love and support @ Landi Smith
@FRED SMARTSTONE thanks for all of the love and support, family
THE LEGENDARY SMOOTH B IS DEFINITELY ONE OF HIP HOP ROYALTY, TO DATE!!!! AND HE RAPS BETTER IN SPANISH THAN MOST INDIVIDUALS RAPS IN ENGLISH. UNQUESTIONABLY WAY AHEAD OF HIS TIME AND GOING DOWN IN THE HIP HOP HALL OF FAME
thanks king
This group made me a hip hop junkie!
Thanks for all of the love and support. make sure you get my new single called, "BEFORE."
@@thelegendarysmoothb5751 no problem man. You have dope stories, you should create a podcast or just do more interviews! Thanks for blessing my childhood and God bless!
He got talent still u can tell
“Sometimes I rhyme slow/sometimes I rhyme quick/I was on 125 & St Nick/
Waiting on a cab/ standing in the rain/
thanks for all of the love and support @Bx Boro
@@thelegendarysmoothb5751 huge track
The Legendary Smooth B legendary 💪🏾
Harlem Stand Up! 💜😁
2:00 is the shit!! How can you not love Smooth B. This interview series gave me a feeling as Smooth told the stories, you took us back. Thanks Vlad.
Vlad needs to get Tracy Chapman and Sting to ask them why they cuff all the publishing
"Im going to make it real funky for you" was my favorite song from them. "Ayo, Dizzy Gillespie plays the sax! Me, myself I like to max...".
Dizzy played trumpet
Remember Tupac said that line on Juice? Memories ❤️
🎼Had a dog by the name bo yellow ..
@@tompratt5916 He also played Sax. But we know him for trumpet.
"Redbone booties I'm out to wax"
Smooth B has always been my dude...good to see u sharing ur stories god
peace god
His new song is dope
I left my Philly at home, do you have another, I wanted get blunted my brother
I remember I had a homeboy in school that swore he was smooth b lol he used to sing funny versions of all the hip hop songs he had a song called your dime gonna trick on me where he redid my minds playing tricks by geto boys lol was hilarious rip tony tee miss you bro 🧖🏾♂️🧖🏾♂️
thaks to you and your homeboy for all of the love and support. pick up my new single called, "before"
SMOOTH B ... the Nate Dogg B4 Nate Dogg... ALWAYS BRINGIN' the Harmony..
@Simon Pheenix Dam .. Well Marley shelved his cold chillin' 1st solo album, but u right just off Biz's work
@Simon Pheenix Swan played some of the unreleased tracks from the album on (doggiediamonds I think) and they would blow today.. can't believe I 4got bout him
Don't forget DWYCK! I'm sure Vlad will mention it in the next installment.
Classic
Pure 🔥🔥
@T Rex, thanks family for all of the love and support
@@thelegendarysmoothb5751 Anytime my brutha, anytime.
He did already
he is using the Elton John flow, that's why they call it the blues, when he was singing in Spanish.
i wonder if he still has the red Sterling...the one that the seats recline.
Facts
That was Greg Nice who loved it when the ladies treated him fine
It’s parked at Tavern on the Green... where he has a glass of wine
@jon dough, I passed the red Sterling to my son :). thanks for all the love and support. make sure to get my new single called, "before."
I partly credit my love for words and really digging into the books during English class to Smooth B. Way ahead of his time and his rhymes challenged me. Salute!
Funky for you is my jam
Glad he seems like a good guy, he only sang this song because its you Glad.
peace king. Actually I sing my song wherever I go because I love it. Thanks for all of the love and support my brother. Salute... @Rich Blackman
1:15 Vlad: "No one had made a Spanish version of a rap song before."
1989: Mellow Man Ace releases the hit single 'Mentirosa'
It might be dope if Nice & Smooth does an album with Bobby Brown 👍
that's unlikely. Nevertheless, thanks for all of the love and support. I am a solo artist now, so please pick up my new flaming single called, "before."
I never knew there were a Spanish version I gotta here it 💯💯💯
He has such nice energy.
@drawing knowledge thanks for all of your love and support, king. Peace and blessing
The 1st rap song in spanish was by Mean Machine called " Disco Dream" 1981 Sugarhill Records!
"INTERPILATIONS"🤣🤣
yes, that's my shit.. thanks for all of the love and support
Smooth B is always on point salute King!! Lets support this King Fam buy that new album!!
Very underrated group. Saw them live in 2012, Greg Nice jumped off the stage and started dancing with females in the audience.
"I got a funky funky rhyme with a funky style"
Hip hop junkies. That shit used to hit so hard when it came on back in the day
"We sample beats, you sue and try to fight us?/man, you'd still be home with arthritis/ if we didn't revive and bring back alive/old beats that we appreciated, you wouldn't survive/you'd be another memory to us/ashes to ashes and dust to dust..." (Big Daddy Kane- Young, Gifted & Black)
My guy said: in·ter·po·la·tion 🤷♂️ I had to Google that thang 🤓 & it is actually a word. Smooth B. vocab game is strong 💪
Shout out Glad for bringing this legendary here
Tracy had every right to take it. That's her creative juice you're borrowing. They had a choice not to use the sample lol
Yep, business is business
She should get all the publishing. Like Ice Cube said, Jackin' For Beats. That was straight jackin'!
Prince did a 50/50 with nice and smooth ...Wow!!
Man fr all these years never knew Smooth B could sang 🤔😂
When I first heard the Spanish version was super high, and it was on the radio 📻 in the car. I thought I was trippin.
😆
I literally love Nice & smooth I still Rock some of their music like it was done within the last 5 years ⭐📻⭐
I literally love you back. thanks for all of the love and support
"And even when she crashed my whip I didn't flip, my man Slick Nick said Smooth you starting to slip"
I had the tape with the "SPANISH FLY MIX" ON HE BACK..SHIT WAS ILLMATIC!!
Nah, the first album was a classic!!!!
Old Yella!
They both were
True dat! True dat!!!
Factz
Jewel of the nile was solid aswell.although it got overshadowed by other albums of 94.old to the new was my joint 😎
Love this guy! I could listen to him tell his story all day.
Them 80s and 90s rappers used to get robbed for their biggest hits...these songs were so big they became a part of American culture...they should be living off royalties like Sir Mix a Lot
This man is dope!!!
Funky for you! Thx to my cuzzo Troy for showing me this video from video music box dj ralph McDaniels... 32 yrs from the Bronx still love old skool hip hop!!!!!
SMOOTH B is dat guy. Could listen to him for hours.
People think Drake started that singing rap style nah these guys were doing it 25 plus years ago do your homework
go back further the force mcs out of staten island who later became the singing group the force mds. force mcs battle cold crush brothers harlemworld tapes
That’s crazy I didn’t even know they did the spanglish and I heard that song he was singing in bachata form that’s crazy legend for real smooth
I always thought the guys in Nice & Smooth could sing and he just proved that he could right here. Multi-talented!
Smooth can actually sing !!!
Definitely one of the unsung heroes of early 90's Def Jam...great song great times.
"Damn near..."
Smooth B a fool!🤣
One of my favorite groups ever! Smooth B is so underated. one of best raps on" Sometimes I rhyme slow"
Dope Mc!!!
Smoove B✊🏾
My nigga Smooth B been that guy for a loong rime... Nice and Smooth was played when the party was at it peak and cats was sweatin and dancing hard as hel! Best times in life! And Before is a banger 30 years later... Salute Smooth B
Now that I think of it, when it was brought up, I remember them doing a Prince sample. On the song, "No Delayin," you can hear the entire loop to Prince's "Starfish & Coffee!" Dopeness!!
“Went to the jeweler had a 50g budget bought a Turkish rope a medallion made of nugget. You can look you can touch it but don’t smudge it”
Gold
Roy Williamson my man !
Smooth B been that dude. Hip hop legend. Love this guy
Glad: "My Greg Nice dialed his verse in"
Smooth B: "Yeah yeah, right right"
Good for Tracy! She is amazing and not rated enough to be honest
One of the few guests that can cut vlad off successfully
THANKS FOR ALL OF THE LOVE AND SUPPORT @Lil Deon
Yo!!! Bring back the dynamic rap duos!! It is needed!!💯❤
Damn I was in high school in Queens when that album drop. Dope album
I love smooth b passion, its effectious, respect to this brother
Publishing is powerful that shit can take care of you for the rest of your life!
That beat was hard too
"He say. She say. I heard it through the great vine ..."
Salute Smooth B he always been nice in rapping and a cool nigga
Nice & Smooth- Sometimes I Rhyme Slow is a classic hip hop song
Smooth Is Mad Cool😎
(I'm Starting 2 Gravitate
2wards Him Already😌)
I Like How He Flipped
His Whole Lango N Interpreted
Into Using A Spanish Flow!!!!
Smooth B, my rhymes get better with time / should get an endorsement for creating fresh lines... --- "Funky for You", Nice & smooth 1988 . The legend!
I can’t believe this interview was 3 years ago.
My favorite group of all time...
Crazy ... love that song
One of my favorite rap groups
Interpelation not once but twice lol love this guy
Smooth is still cool asf! 😂
Been wondering what's new with Smooth B. Been seeing a little more of Greg Nice lately. Smooth B wearing that hat. Nice & Smooth is one of many fav group. Singing Must Decide How To Flow Nice & Smooth Are Good to Gooo...👍🏼 That intro, then they go in, & that beat. Still 🔥🔥🔥🔥 in 2020 still 🎧 in 2020.
Be Safe Everyone🌏😷