1) A mistake beat reading list.

2) "It just smacked me in the face what just happened. I was like, & #39;Hold up!& #39; This will enable me to take any kick and a snare from any record that people love and make my own beat."- Marley Marl

Article/audio by @FrannieandAli via @nprmusic https://www.npr.org/sections/microphonecheck/2013/09/11/221440934/marley-marl-on-the-bridge-wars-ll-cool-j-and-discovering-sampling">https://www.npr.org/sections/...

3) "There was a part where one of us was supposed to leave the beat in, and we forgot. We just looked at each other, threw it back in on time, and said, & #39;Eh, that& #39;s good enough.& #39;"- Prince Paul

Article by @ginosorcinelli via The Smoking Section

https://web.archive.org/web/20160507083554/http://uproxx.com/smokingsection/reconstructing-the-de-la-soul-years-with-prince-paul-part-two/">https://web.archive.org/web/20160...

4) "The beat on & #39;Gas Face& #39; was a mistake. I had it on my drum machine, and the pattern got messed up somehow, and that’s why the beat is kind of a shuffle beat."- Prince Paul

Article by @EricThurm via @TheAVClub

https://music.avclub.com/prolific-producer-prince-paul-on-almost-being-fired-de-1798237198">https://music.avclub.com/prolific-...

5) "It was like it was too good to be true, because that song came out of 20 minutes and a mistake."- Ali Shaheed Muhammad on D& #39;Angelo& #39;s "Brown Sugar"

Article by @gonzomike via @waxpoetics

https://www.waxpoetics.com/blog/features/articles/dangelo-organic-sweet-soul-of-brown-sugar/">https://www.waxpoetics.com/blog/feat...

6) "I want to say it was one of the quickest things I& #39;ve ever made. It kind of fell together."- Stro Elliot on making "Soul II Stro"

Article by @ginosorcinelli via Micro-Chop https://medium.com/micro-chop/stro-elliots-james-baby-and-soul-ii-stro-were-happy-accidents-2e7623f5f7f2">https://medium.com/micro-cho...

7) "I could have never programmed it like that. It was some mistake shit."- Alchemist on making "That& #39;ll Work" featuring Three 6 Mafia and Juvenile

Article via @allhiphopcom

https://allhiphop.com/features/the-alchemist-high-and-mighty-AfM-ZHRYYUCaTTsgn_vxNw/">https://allhiphop.com/features/...

8) "I accidentally dragged the snare into the kick box and it sounded like reggae. So I kept it there. It has a new kind of bounce that hasn& #39;t been implemented in hip-hop before."- Boi-1da on making Drake& #39;s "Over"

By @drewhinshaw via @KeyboardMag

https://www.keyboardmag.com/artists/boi-1da-keeping-it-simple-keeping-it-loud">https://www.keyboardmag.com/artists/b...