I recall when Turntable lab had a Cross Country edit by Monk, and I would listen to it over and over on my dial up….buffering…2 seconds of audio….buffering…3 seconds of audio…buffering…. these days, the intercube is good for music. Oh so good. Tasty. Delectable even. Back then, you were either in the know, or you weren’t. If you knew a sample, it was probably because you had dug dig dug like dig dug to find it and pieced it together, and no one shared their secret samples.  The Jake One and Mr. Supreme conmen tapes were like gold and you would easily pay $20 for a shit bootleg. The well known Dusty Fingers records were the only game in town as far as sample compilations until it started to become big buisness,  and library beats became the new thing to unearth, and more often than not the bootleggers would cut the songs short and/or mislabel them so that you still wouldn’t know.

But I digress… This first song is widely referred to as the “common – 13 Chapters” sample, but I’m calling it the Ynot sample, because lets give credit where credit is due. Common just squeeked his late bloomer pubertyness all over it. But that ignores the fantasticness of the song on it’s own, which is … um… crazy good. So thats that. The other two songs are unreleased special tromboner material… leaked from people who know people, or something.

Throwback: Archie Whitewater – Cross Country (don lowed)

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Throwback: Archie Whitewater – Coming As I Come From Where Ive Been (don lowed)

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Throwback: Archie Whitewater – Get Back Home (don lowed)

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