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Oh No- Move Ft/ Roc C

By Transmute

Published: February 18th, 2006

Move

Opening up as a convergence of Phantom of the Opera and mid-90’s boom-bap, listeners beware of one of the dopest joints to come out of the Stones Throw camp (and Stones Throw only drops music that is a centimeter short of divinity). In honor of the legendary J-Dilla, this post brings to light one of hundreds of examples that show why he is such an awesome producer.
The instrumental for this track is straight up sick. The Phantom of the Opera theme is played out nicely on a synthesizer, as in an interview by Y’skid conducted with Dilla exposes that he turned to a synthetic sound due to sample clearances. The interpolation of a classic horror theme song underlayed by an added futuristic ambiance creates a soundscape that pleads for lyrics of dauntless dominance. The drum, of which Dilla is most known for, sound dope. The beat is simple enough to get the listener’s head nodding while making Oh No and Roc the envy of most emcees. As a bonus, for such a hard beat, Dilla was able to incorporate his signature snare hit: a snare coupled with the hand clap- Classic.
The lyrics to this jam are dope. Oh No, Madlib’s younger brother, kills the first verse with his confident, fluid like flow. The words he kick are ridiculous. The only thing to offer duke/ is to grab six feet of land and throw it on top of you. WHAT!?! The confidence in his verse is so crazy that one would have to believe his proclamation that he and his words are the unstoppable mic dynamic super human power mind bending. This Cali emcee is definitely nice (the Ox baby!).
The second verse upholds another side of microphone dominance. Roc C is a unique guest spot on this song; better yet, album and label. Roc has the stereotypical street rhyming style in which a lot of the words in the verse are emphasized through fluctuations in cadence (usually the last word of each line), and there is a lot of cadence and tone changes throughout the verse. To some who listen to independent hip-hop, they probably would not like Roc’s verse because it sounds like something you would see on a weekday afternoon on BET; however, the way that Roc rides the beat with his style of flow makes his verse, and the song, a powerful gem in a way that Oh No did not and probably would not attempt. Actually, Roc C has the type of rapping style that is common throughout Philadelphia and NY. Listen to this track and hit up a cypher in Philly or NY and hear the similarities. After hearing Roc rock the beat, you can only hope that he would break out into the mainstream holding the Stones Throw banner and make some jams to expose himself, west coast hip-hop and the Stones Throw’s roster to the general public.
Move is a definite banger showing the independent heads can make smart and good radio friendly tracks, even though they will not get to that level at any time soon. This song is only an example of Jay Dee great production coupled with hot lyrics to create a dope song. Check out the sound and if you like it you may want to cop The Disrupt.

RIP Dilla

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2 Responses to “Oh No- Move Ft/ Roc C”

Chris Says:
February 18th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
Word, nice synopsis…love the track! Keep it comin:mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:
sakwald Says:
February 20th, 2006 at 2:58 pm
this is a good single to have! nice write up..

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The imperial emcee and devout Hip-Hop head Transmute ANS, or Tr. ANS, reps for the state of Connecticut, but chills in the Illadelph for the time being. Not one to divulge much information about himself, this is what should be known. People think he’s nice on the mic, he says different; until he is heard the question is: “is he ill?” or is he what an emcee is supposed to be? Whatever the answer is, Tr. ANS does have too many aliases, multiple personalities to go with them, and too many crews/groups that he is associated with (hence his love for Madlib and MF DOOM). As a Hip-Hop head, Tr. ANS’ mind is that of a Hip-Hop DJ, in that Hip-Hop music is not just rap music, but encompasses every genre that has influenced the culture’s music. Therefore, for Freshout, Transmute handles rap (which is called Hip-Hop on the site), funk, jazz, soul, and reggae (Kool DJ Herc baby! Respect!). Hip-Hop is such a large part of his life that he has dedicated his life to the study and development of Hip-Hop Architecture (the man has a Bachelors of Architecture degree). (It should be noted that Transmute did not make this discipline up, there are others who have dedicated time to this study.) Also, Transmutist is a music junkie. The man downloads and buys music so much that he make a crackhead look clam next to his dealer. His knowledge of music is fairly good and if he does have a particular that someone is looking for (Hip-Hop of course), he will look for it. As a Fresh Out writer, Transmute puts his “stamp of approval on every artist that he writes about, so check out his posts and the artists that he is listening to, hit him up if you want and remember to spell the man’s name right— capital “T”, lower case “r”, “dot”, “space”, capital “A”, capital “N”, capital “S”; the hardest name to spell in Hip-Hop— Tr. ANS. Casper.