I first heard The Beginning of the End on “Come Down Baby”, one of four tracks on a rare “Spacedust Disco Classics” volume, found mining the Soul section at Rock’n’Roll Heaven in Orlando, Florida.
The track is obviously dope by itself, but I just wanted to create a breakbeat for some of the artists we were interviewing, giving the option to do a verse or whatever.
So with drums inspired by Classic early 90s Hip-hop, a bassline to back the original, and a bit of rearrangement, here is “Come Down Bboy”…
From Bboysounds:
This track takes guitar and vocal samples from The Beginning of the End’s “Come Down Baby” from their 1971 Funky Nassau album. The drum loops are a kick above the track’s original percussion line, and with a juiced-up Hip-hop beat, plus a bassline built upon the original, and some wild sample arrangement, voila.
The Funky Nassau album featured a dope collection of tracks that found their way into Hip-hop down the line, such as “What She Made Me Promise” whose opening measures featured as the intro to Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth’s “They Reminisce Over You”.
