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Following his commercial breakthrough by having a beat placed on Jay-Z's 'The Black Album', 9th Wonder followed with a single for Destiny's Child's final album 'Destiny Fulfilled'. 'Girl' nearly broke the top 20 in the United States and did better overseas. 9th Wonder samples the Dramatics' album track 'Ocean of Thoughts and Dreams' from their late 70s album 'Shake it Well'.
During the same year, Murs and 9th Wonder joint venture 'Murs 3:16: The 9th Edition' was released on Definitive Jux. We'll cover the album in depth in a future post, but for this post we'll cover the A and B side of the lead single 'Bad Man!'. 'Bad Man!''s reggae steez is plucked from the Mighty Diamond's 1986 track 'Illiteracy' from their album 'Reggae Street'. The B-side track '3:16' samples Black Heat's 'Street of Tears' from their self titled album from 1972.
2005 saw the release of Little Brother's ill-fated big label debut with the album 'The Minstrel Show' on Atlantic Records. An example of the excellent production on the album is the track 'Hiding Places' which samples Bobby Womack's 'Jealous Love'. Though praised on its release, it sold poorly and led to rifts within Little Brother. Their following album would contain only one track produced by 9th Wonder and by 2007 would split with Little Brother entirely.
The Lowdown:
Destiny's Child 'Girl'
from 'Destiny Fulfilled' (2004) (MP3/CD)
The Dramatics 'Ocean of Thoughts and Dreams'
from 'Shake It Well' (1977) (MP3 not available/CD not available)
Murs 'Bad Man!' and '3:16'
from 'Murs 3:16: The 9th Edition' (2004) (MP3/CD)
The Mighty Diamonds 'Illiteracy'
from 'Reggae Street' (1986) (MP3/CD)
Black Heat 'Street of Tears'
from 'Black Heat' (1972) (MP3/CD not available)
Little Brother 'Hiding Place'
from 'The Minstrel Show' (2005) (MP3/CD)
Clean Edit:'Hiding Place'
Bobby Womack 'Jealous Love'
from 'I Don't Know What the World is Coming To' (1975) (MP3/CD)
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