{"id":58503,"date":"2012-12-04T15:28:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T14:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=58503"},"modified":"2012-12-04T15:28:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T14:28:01","slug":"marley-marl-classic-recipes-recreating-eric-b-is-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/marley-marl-classic-recipes-recreating-eric-b-is-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Marley Marl &#8216;Classic Recipes&#8217; &#8211; Recreating &#8216;Eric B. Is President&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hvob_fcrRZs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"344\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the second installment of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/marley-marl-classic-recipes-recreating-ll-cool-js-mama-said-knock-you-out-w-ableton-apc40\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marley Marl &#8216;Classic Recipes,&#8217;<\/a> he shows you how he produced &#8220;Eric B. Is President&#8221; in 1986, the debut single for legendary hip hop duo Eric B. &amp; Rakim. Marl talks about meeting Rakim for the first time and discusses the collaborative process with Eric B. that would yield one of the most influential hip hop tracks ever. &#8220;Eric B. Is President&#8221; combines a bassline from Fonda Rae&#8217;s bonafide 1982 club hit &#8220;Over Like a Fat Rat&#8221; and a beat from James Brown&#8217;s 1974 hit &#8220;Funky President.&#8221; Putting these two parts together was a bit tricky due to differences in tempo, but Marley resolved this problem by replaying the bassline with his trusty Casio CZ-101 keyboard instead of just sampling it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egotripland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">egotrip<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second installment of Marley Marl &#8216;Classic Recipes,&#8217; he shows you how he produced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-fdB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}