Who did it better? Lupe Vs Young Gunz Vs J. Cole & Wale

I'm starting a new weekly series here on ACB. I may even post it a few times a week, rather then just once every week. Hip-Hop though filled with original ideas is also filled with lots of the same ideas. Songs get sampled over and over and over again multiple times, with producers flipping the the same drum loop a BPM slower, or speeding up a sample instead of slowing it down, but whatever the case, songs get re-sampled all the time in hip-hop. Check down below for our first edition of who did it better.

In our first edition we have a great showdown. Chicago's master of words, Lupe Fiasco, Philadelphia's Young Gunz, and a collabo of DC & North Carolina with Wale & J. Cole.

The sample in dispute today is The Spinners "Do it, Do it".

A truly great record.

First up we have "Theme Music To A Drive-By" by Lupe Fiasco, produced by Prolyfic. Originally the intro to Lupe's Food & Liquor album, but after bootlegging almost a month before release, a new intro was recorded, and Theme Music became a bonus track.

Unfortunately, there is no youtube link for Lupes masterpiece, so here's the instrumental.

Next up, the first to sample it, is Roc-A-Fellas Young Gunz. The intro to there debut album "Tough Luv", the philly spitters go off for 3 minutes, letting the world know what they've been sleeping on, over a head nodder from one of the most underrated producers in hip-hop history, Bink!. Bink!, with his trademark hi hats & cymbals bangs your system to hell with this one. Don't nod off on the YG'z though, they do there thing.

Last on our list, is the standout record from Wale's debut album "Attention Deficit", "Beautiful Bliss" featuring his partner in rhyme, J. Cole. Wale has 2 very dope verses, but it's Fayetteville's J. Cole that truly steals the show with his raw hunger, and ode to Pac & Nas towards the end of the verse. Green Lantern & Mark Ronson don't really flip this much different from Lupe's version, but it's just different enough to be there own.

All 3 tracks are bangers, all 5 spitters do there thing, and all 4 producers definitely do there thing as well. This is really one of those samples where it's pretty impossible to fumble.

In the end, my personal list goes

Lyrics:

1. Lupe Fiacso

2. J. Cole & Wale

3. Young Gunz

Production:

1. Future Of The Roc (Bink!)

2. Theme Music To A Drive By (Prolyfic)

3. Beautiful Bliss (DJ Green Lantern & Mark Ronson)

Leave your personal lists in the C-Section!