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D-Nice :: The TR-808 Is Coming (1990)

This is a hip hop classic. It booms, it baps, it rocks you inside and out. You can't deny the beat nor the bass on this one and it's a classic ode to the much-lauded 808, a drum machine that singlehandedly inspired a generation of future music creators. Hip hop took the machine and its innovations to even greater sonic heights. This gem with D-Nice (and KRS-One in support) being a key example.

Check out D-Nice's blog, where he shares his thoughts on his classic tune...
I remember being put on the spot in 1987 while in the recording studio with DJ Scott La Rock. Scott had just completed a track using a sample from an old Three Dog Night record called "Mama Told Me Not To Come" and decided that the track would be used as my DJ Red Alert radio promo. Now imagine this, I was 16 years old at the time and I had never written a lyric in my life and here I am being put to the test. How's that for pressure. I sat in the studio for 1 hour and came up with a song called "The TR 808 Is Coming," which at the time I thought was cool but listening back to it now, I sound absolutely ridiculous!

READ MORE & OFFICIALLY DOWNLOAD THIS SONG FOR FREE @ D-NICE's WEBSITE :: http://www.d-nice.com/jou...000053.php

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i got this on cassette.

i like "it's over now" and "it's all about me"

Isn't he into photography now? I had received a myspace invite a few months back. I also heard he's dating the oh-so-fine Malinda Williams ("Bird" from the Soul Food series).

Talented brotha.

He better get here bright and early in the mor-hor-nihn.

"Call Me D-Nice" is still my favorite.

That's another goodie, too.