Pearl Jam and Cypress Hill - Real Thing

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  • StardogChamp79
    StardogChamp79 Posts: 1,187
    I thought Eddie did the Nah Nah Nahs and the mumbling part before it's the real thing sample.
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,195
    StardogChamp79 said:
    I thought Eddie did the Nah Nah Nahs and the mumbling part before it's the real thing sample.


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    Much like Emilio Estevez’s group, some of these bands fare better than others. And while we’re already on the subject, Pearl Jam isn’t one of them—even though, in terms of appealing to the alternative-rock fans of ’93, there was no more intriguing team-up than Eddie Vedder and company trading musical ideas with Cypress Hill. By then, “Insane In The Brain” had already become a huge crossover hit, back during that weird era when listeners like me could hear it bleeding into “Even Flow” on wildly loose alternative-radio formats like Dallas’ The Edge 94.5 FM. Cypress Hill’s Black Sabbath samples and the very metal mountain-of-skulls cover art of Black Sunday—as well as its side-stage gig at Lollapalooza ’92—had already anointed it as one of the select few hip-hop groups alterna-kids could officially be down with, alongside the Beastie Boys. So it seemed like a potentially era-defining moment when, in a tantalizing interview for Rolling Stone, Sen Dog teased, “The Pearl Jam shit is dope because we put hard B-boy rhymes on top of some heavy-metal-sounding shit. We were talking real street shit like we always do.”

    Sen Dog was right about one thing: “Real Thing” is indeed some plodding, generic, heavy-metal-sounding shit, with B-Real—apart from name-checking Stone Gossard—mostly trotting out boilerplate rhymes about pigs, nines, and AKs, while Gossard adds some gratuitous “na-na-na” backing vocals over music that might as well be a GarageBand “Hard Rock Loop 2” preset. For all its momentous promises, “Real Thing” is really a duet in name only: The groups simply traded tracks by mail—and to make matters worse (or possibly for the better), Vedder didn’t even bother to participate. The result is such an anticlimax, it’s no wonder “Real Thing” is buried at the very end of the album, despite boasting the album’s two biggest names.


  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,195
    https://youtu.be/DSsnuTt_iC0?feature=shared

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