April 19, 2009

Stu Reid Sampler: Talib Kweli Does The Beatles

Since the last psuedo Stu Reid Sampler was full of questions - "Is it Zombies?  Is it Ben E. King?  It sounds like the Zombies, but then why does Talib Kweli say 'That's like some Ben E. King'?" - I decided to run it back right away.  With an unmistakeable sample that's incorporated into a completely dope track.


And - what's this! - it involves Talib too!  Full circle.

A friend played this track for me the other day, and I immediately needed to listen to it over and over.  It's sick.  Like really sick.  Like takes "Eleanor Rigby", one of the most revered, covered, and spun songs on the planet and manages to put it into a cool hip hop context.  So good.  It's called "Lonely People", features Latoiya Williams' vocals, and comes from Talib's 2004 mixtape "The Beautiful Mixtape".  

Here's the original Beatles track, along with Talib's version.  Also, the Queen of Soul herself, Aretha Franklin, does an amazing cover of Eleanor Rigby on her fantastic album Live from the Filmore West, which I just have to share.  The concert is incredible, with Aretha belting out awesome songs, covering the Beatles, singing a duet with Ray Charles, and more.  Phenom.  Check it out if you haven't already.

The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby (YSI) (filesavr)

Talib Kweli f. Latoiya Williams - Lonely People (YSI) (filesavr)

Aretha Franklin - Eleanor Rigby (YSI) (filesavr)

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2 comments:

stefan said...

I'm pretty sure this track is from 06 07.. fuckin sick on the second time around tho

Anonymous said...

pretty sure b.o.b. has used that lonely people sample a while back aswell

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