Thread by @micro_chop, 1) A mistake beat reading list. 2) "It just smacked me in [...]

1) A mistake beat reading list.

2) "It just smacked me in the face what just happened. I was like, 'Hold up!' 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

The seminal producer also tells stories about Mr. Magic, Pete Rock, Big Daddy Kane and Biz Markie.

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, 'Eh, that's good enough.'"- 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/

4) "The beat on 'Gas Face' 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

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'Angelo's "Brown Sugar"

Article by @gonzomike via @waxpoetics

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

6) "I want to say it was one of the quickest things I'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

For those unfamiliar with the name, veteran producer Stro Elliot set himself up to have a monster year in 2017. His 2016 highlights include…

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

Article via @allhiphopcom

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

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't been implemented in hip-hop before."- Boi-1da on making Drake's "Over"

By @drewhinshaw via @KeyboardMag

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

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