Monday, January 22, 2018
Settling "The Score"...
So about 6 years ago (yikes, seems like yesterday!), I did the unthinkable and probably one of the disrespectful yet thankful acts in music history. I removed all of Pras' verses from the Fugees classic 6 times platinum sophomore album, "The Score". Nothing personal against the guy, but it's been the opinion of most people that we has the weakest link out of the three. I mean Wyclef and Lauryn Hill were in their prime on this album. "The Score" is considered to be a perfect album by many, myself included, but with one major flaw. The dude who sounds like The Count with the last verse on many of the songs. Usually myself and other DJ's, when playing these records at our gigs, we would cut the song before Pras' verses.
So, long story short, after a lot of conversing with friends and peers I went home one night, ripped my CD of "The Score" into my computer (again) as .wav files, brought them into good old ACID Pro (which was the DAW I used at the time) and proceeded to edit out Pras' verses from the entire album, including all of the "Fu-Gee-La" remixes. One song I was worried about the most was "Cowboys" because he shares a verse with Young Zee of The Outsidaz where they back and forth with four bars each. With some simple stitching and removal of Pras, Young Zee's verse still somehow flowed perfectly and made sense. I uploaded to Mediafire, it got taken down. I uploaded it to Megaupload, they're whole site got taken down (not because of this, I'm nowhere near important enough). It hasn't really been on the internet since. Someone else had it on their blog with my face and name Photoshopped from the cover taking credit for it not too long ago, but I can't find it anymore.
So! Without anymore of this long stupid story, allow me to present to you, once again in all of its Pras-less glory, hosted on my own site and back by popular demand, "The Score: The Pras-less Mix"!
Again, nothing personal against the guy, but his verses really stunk the joint out. I have heard from many sources that was the business mind of the group and I do have respect for him on that end and being involved in one of the most successful rap groups of all time with classics under their belt.
So, long story short, after a lot of conversing with friends and peers I went home one night, ripped my CD of "The Score" into my computer (again) as .wav files, brought them into good old ACID Pro (which was the DAW I used at the time) and proceeded to edit out Pras' verses from the entire album, including all of the "Fu-Gee-La" remixes. One song I was worried about the most was "Cowboys" because he shares a verse with Young Zee of The Outsidaz where they back and forth with four bars each. With some simple stitching and removal of Pras, Young Zee's verse still somehow flowed perfectly and made sense. I uploaded to Mediafire, it got taken down. I uploaded it to Megaupload, they're whole site got taken down (not because of this, I'm nowhere near important enough). It hasn't really been on the internet since. Someone else had it on their blog with my face and name Photoshopped from the cover taking credit for it not too long ago, but I can't find it anymore.
So! Without anymore of this long stupid story, allow me to present to you, once again in all of its Pras-less glory, hosted on my own site and back by popular demand, "The Score: The Pras-less Mix"!
Again, nothing personal against the guy, but his verses really stunk the joint out. I have heard from many sources that was the business mind of the group and I do have respect for him on that end and being involved in one of the most successful rap groups of all time with classics under their belt.