Premiere: Bbearded Flips a 102-Year-Old Track for Nay Speaks on ‘Public Domain’
Who’s really digging for samples? On Public Domain, a new series from Type.Set.Brooklyn, veteran producers mine 100-plus-year-old tracks for loops that sound brand new before a rapper spits over them.
For our premiere episode, we brought in the Grammy-winning Bbearded, who flipped “My Sweetie Went Away,” a Bessie Smith song from 1923, for Nay Speaks.
Watch the episode above.
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