Guru - State Of Clarity (Solar Remix feat Common, Bob James)

Song: State of Clarity (Solar Remix)
Artist(s): Guru, Solar, Common, Bob James
Album: Jazzmatazz Vol. 4 - The Hip Hop Messenger: "Back To The Future"
Year: 2007

One of the illest productions of 2007. Though DJ Solar produced this, it should be noted that the beat is the same beat as Jay Dee's "Love Jones" so maybe Solar just mixed this after Common told him to use a Dilla beat for a remix or perhaps they liked the same sample source. Regardless, this beat is just awesome, more upbeat and more engaging than the original beat.

I spliced in the original Music Video for the song as it's just a perfect concept and I love Fritz The Cat!

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• rap

[polc318]

its a pain when you tell people you're into hiphop and they assume you're some mongoloid who listens to lil wayne and 50 cent when truely, if they even knew about the hip hop you listen to they'd be giving mad props. This hip hop is amazing and everyone with a decent sense of music would appreciate if they knew of its existence

[cutmastermastercuts]

Dilla and solar liked the same sample source

the original is from the belgian jazzfunkfusion group Placebo from the album "ball of eyes"(1971) not to be mistaken with the rock group placebo. if you say that this beat is more uptempo and engaging the the "original" beat you should give props to marc moulin (fronman of placebo) who died last august i think, because of throath cancer ( he was a heavy smoker) only thing solar did was looping it in different patterns.

[2boyzaVerd1]

@polc318 That's the dopest thing i've heard in a while (excluding this track, of course)

[Themilkman666]

RIP. God damn..... to early

[promoe85]

Thanks Guru, yor lyrics are still opening minds... Very thankfull for your visitation on this planet.. :))

[IceColdBeer94]

@polc318 It's when you start listening to alot of hip hop this style that you understand the difference between old school hip hop, and what people call commercial shit, I start undertstanding now, just by listening to lyrics

[artificialhip]

@mecca521 solar how you get your snares to sound like two feathers touching ????

[greenpeacemyass]

@ItzFakkelteit Yeah, those are the most common terms, but the problem is that rap is one of the hip hop arts, so talking shit about rap would basically be talking shit about the main verbal expression in hip hop. I think that the "real hip hop" term is pretty solid. Well, there people might confuse it with the "keep it real" saying that is known to promote the gangsta rap ideals. Not that it originally is meant to mean that, but that's what it means to most people now.

[rezdogg01]

@rezdogg01 idk wth i put or wat ur tlkn bout man

[JiBzAy619]

fuck solar

[mecca521]

Guru and Solar are tight.....nice track