IF & MAYBE was transformed from what started out as a SHUFFLE into a hypnotizing ALTERNATIVE RAP TRACK with CHEMICAL HARDCORE ingredients by the incredible ‘forever inspired and open to the new’ Rob Gaasterland. After a short ‘boogaloo-like’ tune, played by Saskia’s Envelope & Sherman Filtered Trumpet, there is Three Times a Rap, accompanied by Rob’s Space Synths and Saskia’s Trumpet Interludes. First Mellow Mac’s Personal Life-reflecting Rhymes about Music, followed by his little Singing Tune about Saskia. Second Master of Ceremony MC Cocktail shows another side of his Improvisational Skills on Vocal Expression with his Rhyme Creations besides his Beat Boxing which is put through the whole Song. Last Poet on this Tune is Mad 10, hailing from his Posse, with a Highly Charismatic Voice Straight from the Mind he brings you his Freestyle Rap Flavours.
lyrics
(Mellow Mac:) Fully relax sippin Tequila Rum Bolo / With my but in the Sand, Feelin’ like a bobo / Just me, myself and I between the mess / I’m tappin my hand on my chest / My walkman stands by ready to press play / Sure I listen to the old and to the new stuff today / Just lay back and be calm cause it doesn’t matter / As long as it funks I’m feelin so much better / Play with the old folks clappin and rappin / Feelin’ like I’m gonna make things happen / I like to raise ya, I like to pace ya / I like to do the things that will amaze ya / I will blow ya upside down and down again / You’ll try to drive straight / But you can’t stay in your own lane / There is no use, you can’t go back, ha ha / Cause your house is packed // A Dideladon dideladon lade / Saskia Laroo’s gonna make you sway / Each and every and every day / She’s gonna display just what I say (MC Cocktail:) Seems I’m on the D.L. / Stands for DownLow / I’m bound to take my things and go / But the other flow / Is what has got me strapped / I’m fully tapped / But I’m not a 501 / I’m on the run for fun / Like I was the Pharcyde yeah / I got me gunnin’ and runnin’ / And all their things you’ll be dummy / The other side is where I’m comin / Ah Time after time / I gotz the rhyme and you know / I’m working overtime to get it done / Ahh yeah that is right / I’ll peak you on the time side / and get it done, check it (MC Mad Ten:) Swing low sweet chariot, let it ride / The more the merrier, step inside / Aircraft carrier, how wide? / So I’m really scarin ‘ya / Who tried to step to the real me, the bona fide / Mad-10 hailing from the posse called Nuclarity? / Yes yes y’all, stand back, stand tall / sit back relax...uh uh uh / I’m getting ready and the beat’s that thick / That thick? How thick? / Like peanut butter baby / I wanna see you utter another world baby / When you try to do shit if and maybe / If and maybe, if and maybe, and maybe // Who me? / Yeah, comin straight from the mind / The grey matter / Where’s it all? / The grey matter in the top / Uh insane from the brain / Let the rhyme drop / Can’t stop another fat groove / I feel the beat now you gotta move / I feel the beat now you gotta move / I feel the beat now you gotta move / I feel the beat now you gotta move
credits
from Bodymusic,
released March 31, 1998
If & Maybe 4:43 / 96 bpm (Laroo/Gaasterland/Macknack/van Hinte/Spalburg)
First released as song nr 11 on the album “Bodymusic” (March 30, 1998)
Music: S. Laroo/Laroo Music; R.Gaasterland/Gaasterbop Music
Lyrics: Hein Macnack, Maarten van Hinte /Laroo Music; Jeffrey Spalburg /Sony Music
Musicians:
Mellow Mac a.k.a. Hein Macnack: vocals, rap vocals
MC Cocktail a.k.a. Jeffrey Spalburg: rap vocals, beat boxing
MC Mad Ten a.k.a. Maarten van Hinte: Rap Vocals
Saskia Laroo: filtered trumpet line, trumpet solos
Rob Gaasterland: Jomox, Sherman filter bank
MC Cocktail appears courtesy of SONY Music EN+BV Holland
Thanks To Johnny Kelvin for his Vocals, sampled from the song Jazzparty taken from the album “It’s like Jazz” (courtesy of Laroo Records)
Produced, Arranged, Computer Programmed & Recorded by Saskia Laroo & Rob Gaasterland
Preproduction (Programming, Recording) by Saskia Laroo at Saskia ‘s Studios, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Mixed by Rob Gaasterland at Studio de Boot, floating somewhere in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1998)
Thanks to Midi Amsterdam for Studio Devices Support
I am
trumpet player
Saskia Laroo
from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
My musical
styles vary from
jazz to dance to world to pop
I have released six CD 's
with electric and acoustic music
on Laroo Records
I perform with my own formations
or as special guest
throughout the world.
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