Thread by @micro_chop, 1) A Paul C. McKasty reading list. 2) "Paul told me to [...]

1) A Paul C. McKasty reading list.

2) "Paul told me to go ‘Boom,’ ‘Kick,’ that was all he told me do. That’s all I did. Then Paul hooked the beat up from that, which was crazy to me back then."- Mikey D on making "My Telephone"

Article by @RyanProctor75 via Old To The New

https://oldtothenew.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/old-to-the-new-qa-mikey-d-part-two/

3) "That was one of the things Paul showed me...You have to pan the drums on the Dee Felice Trio record to get the sample we used in 'Give The Drummer Some.' Once we started panning records, it was crazy."- Ced Gee

Article by Angus Batey via his website

http://www.angusbatey.com/index.php?id=589&category=features

4) “That dude, man, he showed so many people love...He was really unique...Someone just couldn’t handle that.”- Large Professor

Article/audio by @FrannieandAli via @nprmusic https://www.npr.org/sections/microphonecheck/2015/08/20/431252442/large-professor-part-2-i-really-live-through-this-music

Large Professor, Part 2: 'I Really Live Through This Music'

"In Flushing, Queens, where I came from, we're right down the block from this fair, the Globe. Something about that town, it's just Olympic, Olympiad kind of a — we wanted to jump the highest."

https://www.npr.org/sections/microphonecheck/2015/08/20/431252442/large-professor-part-2-i-really-live-through-this-music

5) "Paul, he entirely did 'Run For Cover.' There were a few other ones, um … 'Untouchables,' Paul did that entirely. And then a few of them other joints I did entirely."- Large Professor

Article by Paul Arnold via @HipHopDX

https://hiphopdx.com/interviews/id.1914/title.large-professor-on-90s-babies-nas-rakims-relationship-and-lupe-fiascos-rights-to-t-r-o-y

6) "He started with the snare, then the hi-hats and then put the kick drum in. Then went around and got the hi-hats and resampled them and did all kinds of little things to it."- CJ Moore

Article by Robbie Ettelson via @unkut

http://www.unkut.com/2014/12/cj-moore-the-unkut-interview-part-three/

7) "He took me out of that tape deck era. He was like, 'This is the SP-1200, this is the machine you want to rock with.'"- Large Professor on Paul C

Article by @chairmanmaonyc via @RBMA

https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/02/large-professor-interview

8) "He was a damn genius. That 'Gets No Deeper' remix by Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud! Where he dismantled the 'Love City' drums?! To this day I don't know how he did it. That shit was bananas!"- J-Zone

Article via @platform8470

http://www.platform8470.com/interviews/interview.php?intid=69

9) "He was a corrective critic of us, and because of him, I’ve always paid attention to how I pronounce my words to make sure they sound right and stuff."- Kool Keith on Paul C

Article by @_davidma via @waxpoetics

https://www.waxpoetics.com/blog/features/articles/kool-keith-interview/

10) “He put me on to the SP-1200, tracks, compression, and chopping on the drum machine...He took my ideas to another level, with the ingenuity, and the machines, and all of that.”- Large Professor on Paul C

Article by @stanipcus via @Complex

https://www.complex.com/music/2012/05/large-professor-tells-all-the-stories-behind-his-classic-records-part-i/eric-b-rakim-in-the-ghetto-1990

11) "I thought maybe (Paul C) knew someone at Polygram that had James Brown’s reels. There’s no way in the world he could sample (Dee Felice) and take the sounds out. Those are the illest drums I ever heard.”- Pete Rock

By Dave Tompkins via Big Daddy

http://crunkster.abstractdynamics.org/archives/003807.html

12) Paul C. McKasty: the Legend, the Tragedy, the Story of an Era

The little-known rise-and-fall of one of hip-hop’s greatest production pioneers.

Article by @ginosorcinelli via Micro-Chop https://medium.com/micro-chop/paul-c-mckasty-the-legend-the-tragedy-the-story-of-an-era-aea20515d282

Paul C. McKasty: the Legend, the Tragedy, the Story of an Era

The little-known rise-and-fall of one of hip-hop’s greatest production pioneers.

https://medium.com/micro-chop/paul-c-mckasty-the-legend-the-tragedy-the-story-of-an-era-aea20515d282

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