Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Kings Of Queens feat. Large Professor
The Mad Scientist
S.A.Q. 192
Welcome to another edition of "Kings Of Queens". This week's K.O.Q. is MY MAN!!! That's right Flushing's own Large Professor. One of the best Producers of ALL TIME. I learned alot from this man and he has done alot to keep Queens on the map. If you love Hip Hop it is a MUST that you research the discography of the one they call Large Professor.
WE SALUTE YOU!!!
Large Professor also as Large Pro and Xtra P,(born William Paul Mitchell on March 21, 1972) in Harlem, New York[1], is a New York based hip hop record producer and emcee. He is also best known as a member of the influential underground hip hop group Main Source, and for discovering popular emcee Nas.[2] About.com ranked Large Professor #5 on their "Top 50 Hip-Hop Producers" list
Mitchell moved in his early childhood to Flushing Queens, were he was raised. [1]His production career started early in his adolescence. As a young teenager, he would make pause tapes, in which he would pause a beat and blend it in with other sequences. Eventually, he mananged to own a Casio SK-1 sampling keyboard that allowed him to make his beats in the comfort of his own home. He became a protégé of the late Paul C, a record producer and musician, with whom he credits for teaching him virtually everything he knows about record production as well as the associated technology used for making hip-hop music. Paul C was doing production work with Eric B. & Rakim and Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, and then at age 17, Large was given the opportunity to program beats for Eric B. & Rakim's album, Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em (1990), while still attending high school. While working with Eric B. & Rakim, he discovered Nas. Nas got a management deal with Serchlite Publishing (headed by MC Serch from former group 3rd Bass) and Large produced three tracks on Nas's debut album, Illmatic (1994), after he was signed by Columbia Records. His work with Eric B. & Rakim album eventually led him to work on Kool G Rap & DJ Polo's Wanted: Dead or Alive (1990), producing (officially credited as a co-producer) the album's lead single & iconic hip-hop classic, Streets Of New York.
Performing "Fakin The Funk" & "Looking Out The Front Door"
It's The Cons Fool
WORD!!!
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Word Up!!! Queens has been hittin' forever-at least in my lifetime!! I remember in the early 90's I wanted to move in with my pop's in Astoria just to be down with Queens but Y.O./BX wouldn't let me!!!
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