The Top 10 Upright Bass Lines in Hip Hop
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- #jazz #bass #sample #analysis #transcriptions #paulthompson Honoring the illest double (or upright or bass violin, etc.) bass lines in hip hop, including tracks by the Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Nas, and others, while acknowledging the great music that those samples came from, including Art Blakey, Ron Carter, Lonnie Liston-Smith, Buster Willams, and others.
00:00 Intro
01:01 #10
01:47 #9
02:53 #8
03:53 #7
04:39 #6
05:52 #5
07:14 #4
08:01 #3
08:47 #2
09:57 #1
11:14 Outro
Got a favorite I didn't mention? Let me know in the comments!
PDFs of all played examples: drive.google.com/file/d/119PK...
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At 1:01, I mistakenly listed the wrong song title in the graphic. It should say "Put It On"--apologies to Big L!!
ahah, was going to bitch about that in the comments, well played! and nice bass, is it a Pöllmann?
@@mezzasegolas Yep
@@pdbass also, “Vibrations” was a tune by Roy Ayers that Buster Williams covers…love your channel and enjoy the fellowship on TalkBass..!!
I have to say my favorite Double bass line is in
“Sucka Nigga”
Incredible. It’s such a “slippery” line. Smooth and beautiful.
Bounces with a “head bop”
Brilliant…
(Ok, third edit here. The bass line may not be played on a double bass)
I need ears on this and can someone correct me?
HAND IN YOUR BADGE... I'll never forgive you! 🤣
The first time I heard Freddie Hubbard's "Red Clay", I felt like I discovered A Tribe Called Quest's secret ingredient.
Me too
@@carloszagal1934 Me too ;)
really thought this was going to be #1...
That👆
yes, but Tribe sampled Jack Wilkins' version of Red Clay.
Man... As a fellow double bassist 9 days away from 43 this presentation gets me damn near emotional. Much of my pre-jazz education and formal double bass training was spent learning these lines from these records and then getting hip to their sources, first in name, then deep in study. This era opened many doors of music and my imagination, inspiration and personal expression. thank you.
This one is worth a mention. I do solo bass cover of this tune. ruclips.net/video/EF_SUgeLC8w/видео.html
Which is the sample for: ruclips.net/video/HWMsWO0vPa8/видео.html
I love Buggin' Out by Tribe. That bassline always gets stuck in my head
Yo!!! Microphone check 1-2 what is this??!
As a bassist, an old head and an em'cee, all I can say is thank you for this video, and the rest of your content. I'm psyched to dig in. I would just add one of my favorite tracks from one of my favorite records, "I Remain Calm" by the late, great Leonard "Hub" Hubbard. Rest in Power Hub ❤
Ron Carter-Verses From the Abstract/Low End Theory-A Tribe Called Quest. I know it was written specifically for A Tribe Called Quest but it's still Ron Carter.
Gangstarr's "I'm the Man" samples Charles Mingus' Haitian Fight Song. It's one of the songs that got me into Jazz! It accompanies Jeru The Damaja's lyrics.
The “Rebirth of Slick” was the first song that came to mind when seeing the title of this video. That bass line with those horns over top…. jam!
That came out my senior year of high school.
Playing "Guess the Sample" in Golden Age Hip-Hop is a great way to kill some time and hear some good music. Though Roni Size's "Brown Paper Bag" might fall just outside the time period, IIRC the bass line is from Charlie Mingus and provides a real organic hook to the song.
Great top 10! Another few favourites: ATCQ "Buggin Out", Eric B. & Rakim - "Juice" and "Untouchables", Beatnuts "No Equal"
I love Buggin Out, I was introduced to that through Dave Mirra's Freestyle BMX on the PS2. That bassline is the whole song, it's just drums and bass and rapping, no other sounds!
I thought Juice would have made the list because that bass goes crazy
Paul, this is an absolutely brilliant presentation in every dimension
i believe you have set a new standard here in demonstrating the genius of your predecessors as absorbed and skillfully articulated by a true disciple of the craft passed down from musical griots who invent the language we speak. You are a true testament that "bass rules." I saw this potential in you 33 years ago. Thanks for making my dream come true.
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You nailed almost every iconic double bass lines in hip hop! I was surprised to not see Electric Relaxation by ATCQ but it was nice to see them get love on your list. Very entertaining content! Maybe a part 2 is required?
@@sactownchad agreed
TCQ is so amazing, they could get their own list. I’ll be doing one of my “From the Bottom” videos on Low End Theory in the next month or so.
Definitely could use some Electric Relaxation on this list. That's my favorite hip-hop jazz double bass bassline.
The late George Duvivier on the "Double" on Ronnie Foster's 1972 cut "Mystic Brew" from the Two Headed Freap LP. Was only 12 when that dropped but came upon it in the late 70's when I really got into Jazz. Recorded at the iconic Van Gelder Studios, (not far from where I live now) in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. That studio has a story of it's own....
“Back in the day when I was a teenager, before I had status and before I had a pager…🔥🔥🔥🔥
That would have been my #1. Awesome list, my man! Thanks for the video!
The bass lines you selected have become embedded in my DNA. Hearing your perfect renditions lifted my spirit. One of my personal favorite double bass lines is on The Roots’ “Swept Away.” I believe it’s an original composition and not a sample. I maybe wrong tho. Thank you for your content.
“Back in the day when I was a teenager”
Golden age indeed, nice work man!
Loved the video. I feel like A Tribe Called Quest could have filled this list alone. My favorite is "Verses from the Abstract". Maybe; there are so many dope tunes/lines!
"Thanks a lot, Ron Carter, on the bass. Yes, my man Ron Carter, is on the bass.."
Ron Carter can also be heard on a tune that he co-wrote with French rapper Mc Solaar in the early 90's: "Un ange en danger", among other gems from from the excellent Stolen Moments Red Hot + Cool album.
He gets significant solo time there and treats us with some signature glissandos (check the live version). :)
Not a sample either, it's the original bass line.
This one is a TUNE!
One of the GOAT French rappers. I have a feeling that so much amazing hip hop to come from France and all the way over the pond In Quebec have been lost due to time and entropy. If there’s someone out there with burnt CD’s of anything underground or B side of such artists, it would really help music right now to upload it.
He’s also playing on The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, though my guess is its not a sample and it is on electric bass.
Music evolution is one of my favorite jazz bass line.
I am so stoked about this video. Great work!
Thank you - Made my list for owning these stellar recordings. Excellent playing !
This is incredible! Just discovered your channel, and this is high quality content and top notch playing! Really killer
Sooo, excited when I see you’re covering this!!! 🔥
Thanks for the trip back down memory lane. I love the live music vibe.
Yes, yes Paul. Killing it as usual. Love that you wrote it all out, too! Happy New Year!
This is so great! Thanks for including Beatnuts "Props Over Here" - love that one so much! These are the tunes that got me playing double bass in the first place.
Props for putting "dont sweet the technique " one of my favorite Rakim tracks!
My brother thank you for all you do.
Your appreciation for the base and for jazz music is uncanny.
Wonderful! Thank you for sharing - I love hearing "sampled" jazz bass and drums.
Super dope. Ish giving me chills. I thought a lot of Hip hop producers were coming up with these baselines. This is mind blowing.
Great idea! Always loved the Stetsasonic, never knew it was lifted from LL Smith. cool stuff!!
Loved this! These bass lines were the soundtrack of my early adulthood. Thanks for educating me on the source. ATCQ with Freddy Hubbard remain my favorite hip hop tracks of all time.
@pdbass Absolutely love the channel, your knowledge, musical and oratory gifts. In all deference, Hip Hop and Jazz owe one another a huge thanks. Sampling of jazz by Hip Hop artists occured mostly after the landmark Grand Upright vs Warner Brothers case. This meant so many of these jazz recording and composition samples were cleared and credited for release on Hip Hop albums. These original records were released at a time when vinyl and possibly cassette were the only medium of music sales. Being sampled by artists who were releasing CDs and now streams to a larger audience means jazz artists and writers (particularly self-published ones) made and make far more money than they ever would on albums from the 70s alone. Hip Hop extended the lives of once under valued copyrights. When done right, Black Art begets Black Art and financial freedom.
Such a great concept for a video! I remember hearing Cool Like That as a kid/teen and thinking it was the hippest thing I'd ever heard. Jazz and hip-hop bringing the past and future together. The incorporation of jazz gave it a sense of style and laid-back groove that couldn't be beat.
Hey Paul, just want to say thank you...I've been super inspired by you and your channel. Thank you for teaching the music, history, and the culture....not just the theory. So many others fall short in this way, but you sir deliver the real. Kudos, keep keeping on my dude!
I was waiting on that Common baseline. Thank you so much 🎶
Awesome man this was awesome
Thank you so much!
GREAT VIDEO!! You’ve got some great tunes on this list. I swear It’s like this video was made for me.
I was waiting for the Digable Planets sample and Trident...and there were several i didn't know about...Thanks, Paul
Great video! Thank you so much for the knowledge. Wow.
Thank you for posting this excellent lesson, now i can woodshed where the core hip-hop tracks got it.
Bruhhhhh, taking me back making my head swell with love for this music we thought was only ours! Thank you soo much
Premier schooled us all in that era. Great video, I’m a new fan, keep teaching and preaching!
First of all I really enjoyed this video, I'm a huge hip-hop fan and upright player. Second of all, I have been watching your channel for a few years, I am totally surprised and excited about how passionate you are about hip-hop!
PS Great sensibility on the final one to take that 10th note pattern and turn it into a groove, I had never heard that.
It is a fantastic video.
For me as a bassist, who grews up with hip hop, it is a must, to get into the history of jazz.
Thank you so much, for your work.
I a am glad, to found your channel, yesterday.
Love this stuff, Man . . .keep it coming!
Great segment!
Daaamn!! Just caught this and what a video to go into the New Year with! Thanks for another amazing and insightful video Paul as always packed full of wisdom and inspiration! Big love and happy new year! :)
That was absolutely brilliant, you did it again Paul. You had me pressing like as soon as you said Golden Age, I was wondering which A Tribe Called Quest album you were going to go for, there really is no wrong answer with them. Again, great video, thank you.
Great vid🔥 I've have got to come to your spot and listen to your collection 🎼👏🏾
THIS WAS FANTASTIC🎼🔥✨🥁🧙🏾♂️
Awesome video! As a bass player and hip hop head this was such a fun and interesting watch.
Your list leans, decidedly, towards the *best* era of Hiphop ❤️
Also, The Roots “Intro/There’s Something Going On” has a killer upright bass line
Hey Paul, just ran into your channel and as a fellow bassist and old school hip-hop head I feel your passion. I always be trying to find old school hip- hop bass lines on my bass. It was truly hip- hop that got me to listen to that classic jazz. Bass is the groove that makes your body move. And groove is in the heart. 🎸✌
Great video! I am so glad I have found your channel, you are a great teacher and a criminally underrated creator. I’ve learned so much from going through your videos, thank you so much for what you do!!!
Busta will ruclips.net/video/gBCu-A1SsCM/видео.html
Thank you. I love your list. Most of these are still heavy in my rotation to this day. Especially your nod to the Beatnuts who had some of the best underground songs in the Golden Age of Hip-Hop.
Haven’t listened yet but if “don’t sweat the technique “ ain’t top 5 then I’m calling for a recount !
Brilliant as always!! 🙏🏿💯👍🏾
Very nice presentation Paul, I had forgotten many of those songs, that's what I call reminiscent.
So many great memories! I absolutely KNEW you were going to feature Eric B & Rakim's "Sweat The Technique"! My absolute FAV back in the day!
This research is amazing ! Wow ! Who would have thought Eldee Young inspired Don’t Sweat The Technique …
Great Jazz list, many thanks
I Really appreciate this. Love it!
thank you for this video! I learned something today!
Man i just discovered your channel and god damn... I just wanted to thank you a lot because this is mindblowing.. greetings from Portugal 👌👌
super dope video, and playing, from one oldhead/basshead to another
Thank you, thank you, thank you !!! There are many bass lines and albums that I never hearded. Thank you for this video.
Your channels so dope bro. 🙏Keep up the great work!
This is so good. Love to see Digable Planets and Beasties in the mix. Honorable mention to the respective tunes “Pacifics” and “The Scoop” (which I believe Adam Yauch played double-bass on - I could be wrong, as always). Love your stuff Paul. Many thanks!
Although now that I listen back, Pacifics is probably an electric bass. 🧐
Go go go go ruclips.net/video/gBCu-A1SsCM/видео.html
Yo true story this past weekend I took my family to the Discovery Museum in Acton MA that has a bunch of different themed rooms and exhibits. One room is all about sound, and they have an upright mounted to a post that usually kids just run up to and thwack around a couple times then run off to the next thing. Sadly you can't access the tuners or any positions lower than about 2nd position because the whole scroll is locked in a display case, but someone left it just close enough to being in tune that I could make that loop from Pacifics happen and I just went with it for a little while until one other dad looked over and gave me the "I hear you" nod, which was all I needed.
Wonderful content🎯
Great channel👌🏽
Thank you for pulling Beatnuts into this list. One of the unheralded hip hip production duos
props for not making 'dont sweat the technique #1! its one thing for someone to just do a bunch of research and that is worthy of props in itself but it is obvious how much you were into this. you ought to have given some credit to the producers who chopped these lines. i think this video is going to blow up - this is a great topic for your channel and you nailed it. well done brother
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Thanks for the knowledge.
Excellent job recapping the bass lines. Young-Holt Unlimited was one of my favorite groups.
Your work is outstanding 💜💜💜 I love it!! Thanks
Thank you so much!
Such a great video! I'm in my early 40's too and can definitely say Hip Hop was was my gateway into jazz. That in turn led me to pick up the bass years later. Two of my favorite double bass moments in Hip Hop both involve Ron Carter: Redman "Can't Wait", which samples "Caribbean Nights" from Bob James' Touchdown (1978), and the first time I heard of Ron Carter was when he played on A Tribe Called Quest's "Verses from the Abstract" on Low End Theory. He essentially did an interpolation of Heatwaves "Star of a Story" which was the main sample on that record. One thing to point in your video. #10 was Big L's "Put It On", its listed as "Props Over Here" which was your #9. Love all your videos. Keep it up.
Sir ..You are great...stumbled onto your channel ..Excellent.Great ear and great list.
I just found out about your channel a few days ago. I was worried until I found out we have VERY similar taste in Golden Age hip hop as well as certain seminal jazz bassists. This video was awesome.
Your videos are great bro
Thanks...
Dope video. I'm glad I found this channel . I subscribed mad fast
I love "Verses From the Abstract" by ATCQ, featuring Ron Carter, on the bass, thanks a lot, Ron Carter, on the bass...😎
You got great technique man, and the intonation is spot on
This is awesome, Paul. Watching your videos, I feel like we grew up listening to the same music ;-) Your GAP band segment was great ! Thanks.
Well done!!
Oh man I miss the golden era of hip hop,and Beat nuts was one of my faves when I used to hang out on the Brownstones in upper west side NYC back in early 90's.Youre killing it man!!🤖♥️
This is awesome, Paul!
super nice video for this type of music lovers, that am I... and you are the great bassist! Thnx
Great Video! Number 1 was and still is my favorite bassline in Hip Hop! And I loved that you played all the parts! Another great bassline is from the song "Not gonna be able to do" from Double XX Posse! All the best good sir!
Nice educational video and great chops too..
Another incredible video!!
Awesome video. Thank you.
Peace to C. Scott for sharing this gem of a channel. After the big L bass line, I closed my eyes and was able to name each one, unfortunately, I’ve never been good at remember the name of the og sources. Bless your soul
Love this video! Paul, you could do vol. 2, 3, ... 8, on this topic :) Most of my favorite hip-hop tracks have an upright bass sample. Even mamá said knock you out has upright bass. It makes such an impact.
Very inspiring 👏
This video is pure gold!!! Brilliant. Not only for the information but for the good albums to listen also. It's an electric bass line but I need to mention. Root Down, with Wilton Felder on the bass and sampled for the Beastie Boys.
One the ILLEST lines ever!
Man! You are blowing my mind with this one. I too am an avid fan of the Hip Hop's Golden Age for 2 reasons: 1) The diversity, thoughtfulness and intentionality of the lyrics and 2) the tributes to jazz and old school R&B. Why are DJs like J Dilla were so sought after? That right there! :)
Keep amazing us with your astuteness! Blessings...
Those bass lines... Totally sick!
Nice presentation!
Brilliant-as always!
Also: your right hand attack is even more balanced than it was a year ago...You sound fantastic.
This one was a real treat, thank you! Thanks for another inspiring post, and... Happy New Year !
You been here since day one, Mark! Thank you, brotha. Have a wonderful year--P.S. I had my soundpost moved for the first time in about 5 years. It completely took pressure off the top and loosened up my strings. She’s playing like buttah now!
@@pdbass And you have inspired me and many others from the beginning, so thank YOU !
Glad that your set-up is perfect now...Watch out, world! 😉😎🤗
love this
I only discovered your channel a few weeks ago and I have to say that in my humble opinion, yours is the best bass guitar channel out there today. Seriously!!
I am also of the "Golden Age' of Hip-Hop and I love the songs you've chosen here!
Thank you for watching!!