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ArtOfficial - Show Me Change
Artist: ArtOfficial
Featuring: QuESt
Producer: ArtOfficial
Album: The Payback
Label: Unsigned
We’ve heard Miami, Florida crew ArtOfficial flip tracks by rock and jazz icons into live-band hip-hop gold, but can they work a similar brand of magic on classic cuts from their own genre? Judging by the latest single off their recent, DJBooth-sponsored street album, the answer to that question is “indubitably.” Show Me Change finds the ensemble borrowing a sample from Hova‘s Show Me What You Got (which itself samples a saxophone riff also sampled by Public Enemy and Wreckx-N-Effect) as emcees Newsense and Logics lace the cut with exultant rhymes. As if that weren’t already too much freshness to handle, fellow Panhandle State native QuEST and Solillaquists of Sound member Swamburger jump on board to deliver equally action-packed guest bars. If you’ve been sleeping on ArtOfficial, let this be your wake-up call; once you’ve poured yourself a tall cup of coffee, click here to stream or download The Payback.
This song first appeared on the
Independent Chart
on May 10, 2010
Listen to More: ArtOfficial , QuESt , Alternative Written by richard
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 877 |
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I guess I'd have to see them live to see how good they are. If was pretty good though. QuESt was nice.
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| Posted on May 05, 2010 |
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DJ Booth Crew  Total Ratings: 11662 |
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How can you not love this? As is the case on the entire "Payback" album, "Show Me Change" is whatever word you would use to describe the complete opposite of stale (fresh, right?)
If Jay had jumped on this as the lead single to Kingdom Come, I don't think we'd all have that album as a coaster in our den. 
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| Posted on May 06, 2010 |
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This is one of those tracks that, after it ends, makes you take a breath like you just ran ten miles. High energy every second, but just enough to make you say "I gotta listen to that again."
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| Posted on May 06, 2010 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 613 |
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Almost feels like the instrumental somewhat covers up the verses. The original was classic and this is worthy of in-rotation at best.
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| Posted on May 06, 2010 |
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Word? A direct rip off the sample with no creativity or inginuity behind it. I HATE tracks like these.
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| Posted on May 06, 2010 |
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the beat behind "show me what you got" is still one that gets me out of bed in the morning and artofficial once again did it justice. wow everytime they step in they blow me away. first "voodoo", then "the payback" now "show me change" from rock to hip-hop and rap they are so versatile.
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| Posted on May 06, 2010 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 687 |
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This was the first track off their mixtape I mentioned. The topic of my comment was how good these dudes can spit. Good track. Keep at it ArtOfficial. I think everyone will agree, but their instrumentation is something special and revolutionarily unique in the game.
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| Posted on May 06, 2010 |
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DJ Booth Crew  Total Ratings: 2476 |
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Once again, everything sounds better live. Everything. I wish more groups
followed ArtOfficial's lead, but it's hard to get that much talent in one group. On the lyrical side I actually liked Swam's flow much better than QuEST, that was a crazy fresh cadence he dropped. @ DJ "If Jay had jumped on this as the lead single to Kingdom Come, I don't think we'd all have that album as a coaster." Ha, too true.
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| Posted on May 06, 2010 |
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I'm feeling this track, I dig stick shift verses and even though its a sample, they did it justice. Im joinin the bandwangon and saying Quest killed that but the other camp members did their thing!
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| Posted on May 06, 2010 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 1217 |
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ArtOfficial brings heat every single time they decide to jump on a track. If you have not downloaded their mixtape I highly suggest you do it right now. One of my top tracks off their recent project. Newsense is sick with that word play he has going on and the instrumentals in production are always stellar.
Quest did a great job on his verse and Swamburger had me at hello with his verse. Amazing how I have never heard of him before. This track was great. |
| Posted on May 06, 2010 |
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to 149..this isn't a direct rip off of the song..ArtOfficial is a band and they recreated the instrumental with INSTRUMENTS lol...also Newsense is not on this track it's only Logics from the AO MCs
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| Posted on May 06, 2010 |
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Tastemaker Total Ratings: 1217 |
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@fram132 thanks for clarifying that for me.
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| Posted on May 06, 2010 |
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The N2Deep intro beat definitely caught my attention but that was the best thing about it i did not feel the rest of the track.
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| Posted on May 08, 2010 |
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Downloaded the mixtape when it came out and still listening to it. This song is pretty good.
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| Posted on May 08, 2010 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 492 |
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@The 149th. Seems like your rating just on the production. Track gains ingenuity through the verses, and as for the sample. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
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| Posted on May 08, 2010 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 4267 |
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Thanks to @Richard, I have developed a new found liking for "Show Me What You Got".
There was a lot of potential for a misstep here, but the ArtOfficial & QuESt hits all the write notes and tear the beat to shreds. |
| Posted on May 10, 2010 |
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