Music Video Vault : Ali Dee “Who’s Da Flava?”
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This beat is actually better than I remember it being. Is this the same guy that did the Speed Racer song a few years ago? What rock did they turn over to find Ali Dee? Funny how the world works. This video is not so great but like I said the song is better than I gave it credit back in ‘92. Guess the dude had some cred at one point considering he had a duet with Kool G. Rap called “Bring It On” on the B-Side of this 12″.
July 10th, 2009 at 2:11 am
Yep its the same guy!
July 14th, 2009 at 12:01 am
The beat is also from ‘No Words’ off of Three Times Dope’s “Live From Acknickulous Land” album. About two years before this song came out.
July 21st, 2009 at 7:24 pm
This song and this artist should have ruled the airways!!! Ali dee is a rock/rap god!
September 28th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
@squeege
Are you going off album credits? The drums could be the same, but I can’t really tell because of all the other sounds that were put over it. Really, even it is the same beat(and I don’t think it is) its still moot because “Whose da Flava” has got to be considered a pretty radical re-working of that beat.
Ali Dee was always dope and his credentials are as legit as they come. He was unfairly buried by the prevailing mindset in Hip-Hop at the time. He dropped when Hip-Hop’s biggest audience, black folk, were not interested in hearing from a half white half arab guy who wasn’t really hardcore or doing Native Tongues Afro-Conscious alternative stuff. Just wasn’t a place for him. The backlash Ice Van Winkle generated surely didn’t help him either. These days, tastes having changed and Hip-Hop a whole lot broader he becomes the big star he shoulda been. Seriously, “Bring it On” is like Kanye West level good.
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