So glad to have the Main Ingredient talked about like this. It was a master piece. I think CL matched the production perfectly

The Main Ingredient is one of the best produced albums of all-time .

@joshruiz809

Жыл бұрын

In the Flesh is an all time banger 🔥🔥

@juanyebrown3838

Жыл бұрын

I’m 24 and found “The Main Ingredient” when I was 18. EASILY one of the best albums I heard. I still put “Mecca and the Soul Brother” up there as well.

@angryyman8227

Жыл бұрын

Worldwide is my shit.

@tochiRTA

Жыл бұрын

@@angryyman8227 man..... you tellin me! kzread.info/dash/bejne/eYl9qtyqpLW5pKw.html

@Reevesbeatz1

Жыл бұрын

True indeed. It’s amazing. 🔥

Yes. As a producer, the main ingredient is thee Pete rock album. The album sends you somewhere else.

@matthewt8214

Жыл бұрын

I think center of attention is his best work and the original petestrumentals is up there too

@j.carter1157

Жыл бұрын

You could arguably say soul survivor is up there as his best work as well. From 94-2002 he was just in another level

I always loved how Pete used the the shoutout from ATCQ‘s „Verses From The Abstract“ on „In The House“. The way the main sample matches with Vinia-Mojica‘s voice is perfect.

I still listen to Pete Rock and CL Smooth!!! That song “ When They reminisce Over You” is a whole vibe !!! Yes please give them their 🌸 flowers they are so underrated !!!🔥🤗💜

@mic9check

Жыл бұрын

60.000.000 million plays of "T.R.O.Y" on Spotify alone, and "they" are underrated?

@mightyrichard514

Жыл бұрын

@@mic9check Yes they are Underrated. She is Right.

@MaSungoddess777

Жыл бұрын

@@mic9check The reason I say that bc the matrix doesn’t give them awards and do biographies on them and uplift them as they should bc they don’t want the youth of this day to know nothing about and go back to that vibe fo sho!!!! They should be talked about as much as the others that are agents for the demise of the people but I’m sure they are decent and have morals and standards and are independent creators and can think for themselves not ruled by the mighty dollar so that wouldn’t be a good look for the machine!!! BTW I’m listening to them right nigh!!!!😂😂🤣🤣

@evandercaldwell9993

Жыл бұрын

You know what's underrated?? INI - Center Of Attention!! Whole album produced by Pete Rock and every track a BANGER!!!! Definitely in my Top 10 Hip Hop albums of all-time!

I Get Physical, Sun Won't Come Out and I Got a Love are my favorite 3 song stretch on an album

@jamalevans1574

Жыл бұрын

Get on the mic is 🔥

@traviscarter1023

Жыл бұрын

@@jamalevans1574 He was in his bag on that track CL that is

@samthemac

Жыл бұрын

Yeah word. But "tell me"?... come on man!

@traviscarter1023

Жыл бұрын

@@samthemac Tell Me he showed me his skills on that track. That is what makes this album a 6 mic album. He blacked out on Tell Me and Get On da Mic and It's On You. I so wish they did more video to the album. I'm so glad I found some people to talk about that album. We not just pushing it under table anymore. Could you imagine I Get Physical video in New York City.

@j.carter1157

Жыл бұрын

“ in the flesh” and “it’s on you” nourished my soul 💯

Love both Pete and CL albums!!! classics. 🙏🏻💎🎤

Gratitude Ps That Pete Rock Soul Survivor is amazing as well.

I like how snippets of beats got played in between songs on the 'main ingredient.' Always thought that was a game changer.

@fatheadbeatz36

Жыл бұрын

I used to have a dual cassette player and would loop those snippets into a longer beat on a blank tape. Then would write some rhymes to put over it. I couldn't get enough hip-hop in those days!

@robertjohnson7614

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@robertjohnson7614

Жыл бұрын

It was like Pete Rock was overloaded with bests he had make those dope snippets so that none of it would be wasted.

@tareefsmith9027

Жыл бұрын

The beat interludes changed the game. What Pete used and how he used it was crazy. He was doing things like taking a popular Billy Joel sample ("Just The Way You Are") and pairing it with a popular Bob James drum break ("Take Me to the Mardi Gras"). Unheard of at the time. The way he sampled Biz Markie and Big Daddy Kane's voices was unheard of as well. That album influenced so many producers and musicians.

@tayluc777

Жыл бұрын

UGK was influenced by that too. Bun B said it.

PETE'S INTRO LOOPS......GAWD. THAT'S WHERE I'M GOING WITH MY PRODUCTION AS WELL, TOO INSPIRED.

"Tell me" from main ingredient. Put that on right now - one of the illest, banging smoothest and hype joints on the planet.

Main Ingredient beats are on a whole nother level. CL rapped about more than just women, Talib is trippin. He just wasn't super hardcore gangster and that was refreshing.

@cooliegee

Жыл бұрын

It would be interesting for Talib Kweli to follow up this interview with CL SMOOTH. It always refreshing to hear from the artist themselves to get an accurate factual account to what went down.

@robertjohnson7614

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@Reevesbeatz1

Жыл бұрын

Truth

Can't wait for the full interview...🙏🏾🙏🏾

The main ingredient is definitely in my top five. Cl has one of the dopest voices in the game. And Pete rock on production is always a good thing.

@MegaMarvelvsDC

Жыл бұрын

For real CL is seriously underrated

@evandercaldwell9993

Жыл бұрын

@@MegaMarvelvsDC Absolutely!! Saw Pete Rock and CL Smooth live 10 years ago here in Switzerland and CL Smooth had the hardest flow, which I never anticipated from hearing his rapping-style on the albums! But live he rips the mic like you would never expect, he is one of the tightest Mc's I've ever seen, and I've seen most of 90's finest Mc's live (east to west)!!! The concert is still one of the best I've seen to this day! Of course Pete Rock was absolutely on point as well! You could see they wanted to rock the place and give it everything they got to share a dose of that Real Hip Hop! 😍 It was truly a Dream Come True for me, no accident that they are absolute legends and changed Hip Hop for ever! That concert was one of those moments where I truly could feel the essence of Hip Hop, that Hip Hop DNA!!

All The Places, It’s on You, and Take you There some of my favorite beats from that album

Always loved Just Blaze.

The Main Ingredient is a dope album.

@traviscarter1023

Жыл бұрын

It's a 6 mic album

Here for it 🙌🏾

@UPROXXVideo

Жыл бұрын

lot of fun in this episode!

The Main Ingredient is a masterpiece album.

Pete Rock back at that time was an impeccable DJ he had the sckest scratch patterns i ever heard not only that his music selection was was enormous he would take classic records and make a sound that was light years ahead of its time which makes up for his original sound i quess why he's known as the son of marley marl!!

Mecca and Main Ingredient are 2 of the greatest hip hop albums in history

The crazy part about those two albums is that they wanted to make something like mecca on the second album but THE LABEL wanted them to make more of the smooth type of r&b type of album. This was said in a Pete Rock interview done over the last 2-3 years

Excellent interview. Thanks! Justin is completely brilliant.

The Dynamic of Phenomenal Opposite Attract(s)'g.

Interesting conversation! I'll have to go back and play those albums back to back. "Worldwide" is my favorite song between them.

Musicianship. At its finest. Thank you!

Great that this album is getting the respect it deserves.

THE MAIN INGREDIENT IS A CLASSIC RECORD! SITTING ON A RUFF O.G. AND THE CLEAR REISSUE AND THE MECCA AND THE SOUL BROTHER.....MUCH RESPECT TO BLAZE AND PETE ROCK AND OF COURSE CL SMOOTH!!!!!!!!!

I still have those albums in rotation and to their point I listen either for different reasons intently

Yo, I loved that album from the jump!

Pete Rock is on my top 5 favorite super producer list. Mecca and the Soul Brother is a super classic. My all-time favorite Pete Rock remix is “ Shut Em Down by Public Enemy…

Just Blaze!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who feel like the most influential producers of the first golden age of hip-hop?

@goldenlion8123

Жыл бұрын

MARLEY MARL/PETE ROCK/DJ PREMIER/DR.DRE/RZA..

@KardiFan2000

Жыл бұрын

Premier, Dre, Q-Tip, RZA, Erick Sermon, Large Professor, Marley Marl, DJ Quik...

@markoz673bajen8

Жыл бұрын

King 44

@markoz673bajen8

Жыл бұрын

Biz Markie seriously bizness.

@KardiFan2000

Жыл бұрын

@@markoz673bajen8 You mean 45 King

Most slept on album of all time

Woop woop the main ingredient

well said!

Pete influenced a lot of producers.

Great group top ten groups. Beatnuts. Nauty but nature Pete rock cl smooth Tribe called quest. Leaders of the new school. 5 underated groups give Them there roses please.

I Get Physical off that record is my jam. I love that track

In The Flesh is fuckin dope my whole house moves up n down when I turn it on

steve pacaro from toto wrote the arrangement

Love that Lp

The main ingredient was the first Pete rock album I ever bought, I didn’t really know who he was and dammmmm was I in for a surprise !!! Classic Album

Pete rock one of 1st producer put soul samples on hip hop beat back 80' s and 90' s just listen too tha world is your by nas or 1st or 2nd Pete Rock & c.l smooth album or run dmc down with kings cut all type soul music sample and it was fire 🔥and put lil extra break beat at end ..good too see just blaze how that sound changed sound of hip hop. ...

His favorite song is It Aint Hard to Tell that's hard af 🔥

JUST BLAAAAAAZE

That De La Sweater.. 🔥

Main Ingredient TOP 10 group album of all time

and don't forget the other masterpiece "Soul Survivor"!

Love the Pete/ C.L. convo here, especially talking about Pete Rock's production. Main Ingredient is definitely my fav of the 2 albums. It was so polished and put together that it still sounds fresh today. Not from a stand point of what's being played today, but more like simply the sound of it. Always loved the little interludes in between songs main ingredient like the one j dilla re-did for Blackstar song "little brother".

In the flesh

I’m ashamed,the only song from PR and CL I knew was TROY. I had no idea an album called ‘the main ingredient’ ever existed. I typed on Apple Music n some other shyt came on but I found it.listening to it now……amazing yo. I’m ashamed

@tochiRTA

Жыл бұрын

"Worldwide" is probably my favorite song on there. "Carmel City" is another.

Yeah, Main Ingredient is that shit! The beats in betweeen songs go hard even. Didn't somebody make a album off the beats in between the songs?

Like video

Anyone notice the connection with Bollywood music and GoGo music around late 80s?

Whole album is great but the first like 5 beats on main ingredient are masterpieces

'THE MAIN INGREDIENT' WAS 1994 NOT 95'..THEIR BEST AND LAST ALBUM..

@goldenlion8123

Жыл бұрын

*LATE 1994/NOVEMBER 8TH..

@traviscarter1023

Жыл бұрын

It took place around late 1994 early 95 because it shout out both years when its saying in the 94and live for the 95 so yea 94-95 season in hip hop

@PesterFester1966

Жыл бұрын

It's basically Mecca (Part 2) but more polished... Not my vibe.

Steve Porcaro (Toto)

Back up back up back up….Talib you are definitely one of my top MC’s and Just Blaze you’re a beast…..BUT! yall wrong on this one champ….the fact that producers like Main Ingredients and MC’s like Mecca and The Soul Brother. It’s not about MC’s or producers…it’s about the error you grew up in and the album’s that influence you to love thing we call Hip Hop. I guarantee if you ask MC’s and producers 51 and older which album was better most will say “Mecca and The Soul Brother”. Just like Tribe Called Quest…my generation will say Low End Theory was the best album and your generation will most like say Midnight Marauders. I could break it down deeper but that’s for another day. Check it…you need to ask that same questions to DJ Premier, Large Professor, DJ Scratch,45 Kings and your boy Diamond D.. Anyway…love your videos Keep it up 💪🏾

Interesting! To me... Mecca and the soul brother album is classic. I don't think the Main Ingredient comes close to the production on the first album.

Well im an Emcee and i like the Main ingredient better.

…I totally disagree with Mecca and the Soul Brother being an OK album… that shit is a classic from the beats to the lyrics in 92 that album was the top tier of NYC Hip Hop… the Main Ingredient is a classic in its own but MATSB is the goat of Pete Rock and CL smooth’s career… this is before illmatic/ 36 Chambers/ Enter da Stage… Cl was the the man

@MockeryManor

Жыл бұрын

I have to agree. I understand what Just is saying from a song to song technical standpoint. But no one is going to tell me that, from a technical standpoint, there is ANY song on Main Ingredient better than For Pete’s Sake. The hip hop production planets aligned on that one beat. It has at least 10 different chopped samples in one song. And everything matches in terms of rhythm and harmony. And he did that with an SP1200, that did not have Flex Pitch on it. So he was able to match baselines, melodies, and harmonies from at least 6 different records. That song is beyond genius.

@jamesduckery

Жыл бұрын

@@MockeryManor That song is my favorite and CL Smooth fit like a glove!

What kinda sweater do just have on?

All I gotta say is......Now pass my shades

Nah CL talked about way more than just woman.. i know cuzz i was there ..😋😋

tread carefully Kweli, as an all around MC, songwriter, or live performer; you're not on CL's level

both are masterpieces...but Mecca and The Soul Brother is better!

Nah Main Ingredient is aight, but Mecca and The Soul Brotha was a defining piece for Pete Rock who showed never before seen chopping skills on MATSB.... I'mma keep it all the way fonky, I only remember two or three joints from the Main Ingredient bruh, ALL the joints on MATSB are classics! Look, Pete Rock is one of the faces on my Mt Rushmore of inspiration so I'm definitely not just a fan but a student...Bottom line, nothing moves a Pete Rock audience more than T.R.O.Y. if you've seen him live you'd know this....

Pete rock is talented contributor but he conflating facts and that makes him a lier carribean Brothers did not create an art form that is clearly black american. We waited for them to teach us how to mix music our relatives created and rhyme over it in our slang and style. Make it make sense sway?🥴 lost respect for dude and I had all his projects. Smh

What about the influence kanye n bink had on you? Swagger jacker

@devon8trillionaire

Жыл бұрын

Hater just blaze is the real 🐐 legend

Pete used Foundational American samples, yet he says hip hop is 90% Jamaican.

Too bad "Main Ingredient" doesn't have a T.R.O.Y. so that pretty much kills his argument.

@Darie2006

2 ай бұрын

Yea it does….listen harder….

@PesterFester1966

2 ай бұрын

@@Darie2006 I've been owning this album way before you we're conceived so STFU.

Sorry but main ingredient is not touching mecca and the soul brother

As dope as M&TSB is, start to finish, TMI is the better album…