SR: During the Stillmatic album, he was out in L.A and I was doing a song with Beenie Man for a FUBU album, Nas came, he saw me and was like “Yo, what up.” I went to school with Akinyele, and we knew a lot of the same people. If he tells me something he has an idea for, I’ll roll through with it and keep feeding him ideas. “Most people didn’t even know I exist, and I don’t want them to,” as he explains. And on the flip side it’s supported by myself and other producers that are able to turn that around. Most of the artists I have a working relationship with, we have a chemistry so we have a lot of material. This week on The Formula, he breaks down the connective tissue between the two collaborators and shares his recipe for pulling the best out of both songwriters. It took some time to get there. Frank is the debut studio album by English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse.It was released on 20 October 2003 by Island Records.Production for the album took place during 2002 to 2003 and was handled by Winehouse, Salaam Remi, Commissioner Gordon, Jimmy Hogarth and Matt Rowe. We have a chemistry, I would say. Salaam Remi went to the vault for this one, casually dropping off an unreleased Nas and Amy Winehouse posthumous collaboration to close out … En 2020, se inauguró una exposición titulada Beyond Black - The Style of Amy Winehouse … Words by Jesse Serwer. Salaam Remi: At this point, I’m kind of coasting, just because I’ve done a whole lot the first half of the year. Justin Timberlake Pens Apology To Janet Jackson for Super Bowl Incident, Erica Banks Announces Record Deal & Drops “Buss It (Remix) Ft. Travis Scott, Tucker Carlson Bizarrely Ties The Capitol Riots To George Floyd’s Death, “It’s Offensive, Unfair”: Michigan GOP Candidate Wants To Cancel Black History Month. So there are always moving pieces. LargeUp: Life is Good is one of the most talked-about (and best-received) albums of the summer. Comments. Salaam Remi was already an established producer before he met a then-unknown singer named Amy Winehouse, having already created hits for … The Girl From Ipanema – the first song the 18-year old Winehouse sang when she went to Miami to record with Remi. He's given artists their signature sound and remixed careers. Salaam Remi Gibbs est un producteur et musicien américain évoluant principalement dans le hip-hop et le RnB. Listen to the song above and read all the lyrics to Salaam Remi’s “Find My Love” featuring Amy Winehouse on Genius now. “‘Know my name if you gotta write it on a check’ has been my motto for a long time.”. SR: I didn’t hear Swizz’s records until they were mastered. For me sitting on the other side of it I felt it had enough personal depth, and enough musicality. News, News - 8 years ago. The track for “A Queens Story,” he wrote rhymes for Hip-Hop is Dead to that track. Amy Winehouse - Love Is A Losing Game. Find Salaam Remi credit information on AllMusic. That’s the biggest difference. The Score: Salaam Remi Talks Amy Winehouse & NaS In Exclusive Q&A. I produttori Salaam Remi e Mark Ronson hanno collaborato, compilando l'album con il consenso della famiglia Winehouse. His last two albums had these huge concepts but not the continuity you get from this album… Gaye recorded “Symphony” during the sessions for Let’s Get It On and it later appeared on his posthumous 1985 album, Dream of a Lifetime. Hip-Hop Is Dead was a lot of singles produced by Will-i-Am. Those two albums, if you look at the credits (which people don’t seem to read anymore) Dr. Dre, 3 or 4 Kanye West records, Scott Storch, LES and Wildfire, Stargate, Mark Batson–that album doesn’t really have me involved in it. Yesterday LargeUp revealed one of the music industry’s best-kept secrets, publishing an in-depth interview with Salaam Remi, the world renowned–yet notoriously press-shy–producer of hits (some might say classics) for Nas, Amy Winehouse, The Fugees, Jazmine Sullivan, Super Cat, Ms. Dynamite and the Bush Babees, just to name a few. SR: Nas and I are pretty cool so we talk a lot. En febrero de 2019, Salaam Remi lanzó un álbum recopilatorio que incluye la canción "Find My Love", que es una colaboración póstuma entre Winehouse y el rapero Nas. And you can find all the latest episodes and essays at npr.org/theformula. The track on “Black Bond,” started during the Untitled sessions. And he might be the first real established name who ever worked with Amy Winehouse. Following her tragic passing in July, some of the producers and musicians who worked closely with Amy Winehouse, among them Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi, spent time listening over the many recordings that Amy had made, before, during, and after the release of “Frank” and “Back To Black”. Hit the link below to get Part 1 of this rare interview and read on after the jump for Part 2. What a lot of people are talking about is, it’s “an album.” There are a lot of songs that are hitting them in ways that they like, but more than anything else they are accepting it and talking about “the album,” and that’s really an artform that’s been lost in the singles-driven world. Former Amy Winehouse collaborator Salaam Remi has unveiled a new posthumous collaboration with the Back to Black vocalist. Nas repeated something in an interview, I had said to him right after we got the masters: this album feels like Back to Black or The Score to me. LU: I think Nas fans have been waiting for that. Perhaps even more impressive than the list of artists he’s worked with would be the titles of the songs he’s produced for them–in almost every case the signature tunes with which we most strongly associate their names–and more impressive than that would be the emphasis he gives to molding not just songs but careers, empowering his proteges to be visionaries in their own right while he is content to remain behind the scenes. Get notified about exclusive offers every week! I think we exchanged two-way numbers. It happens over years. I was around when he was doing it. The biggest difference is the end result felt as it wanted to be felt from beginning to end. He never used it, so I put it on my instrumental album, Pragnosis. Salaam Remi Releases "Find My Love" Ft. Nas and Amy Winehouse The first single from his compilation album, ‘Do It For the Culture 2.’ By Nia Groce Cause we’ve been working together for the last ten years, there’s loads of ideas. This time, the positive reception to it was great, but it’s still driven by whatever he wants to do. Following her tragic passing on July 23, 2011, some of the producers and musicians who worked closely with 5x Grammy Award winning artist Amy Winehouse, among them Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson, spent time listening over the many recordings that Amy had made, before, during, and after the release of albums Frank and Back To Black. I went to Prague working on film composing, and then he had heard that and said let me write something else to that. Studio Sessions | Salaam Remi has unreleased Nas songs & the song Amy Winehouse felt like she sounded like death on He went on to tell how for her second album, he moved his entire studio into his living room per her request, where he made his portion of the Back to Black album. Il est surtout connu pour ses collaborations avec Amy Winehouse, Estelle et pour ses productions pour le rappeur Nas avec qui il travaille régulièrement depuis les années 2000 (notamment Made U Look sur l'album God's Son publié en 2002). LU: Did you have input in regards to the other tracks you didn’t produce on the album? This keeps happening over the years and I’m like what about this idea, what about that idea. Active since the mid-'80s, a Grammy-nominated but undervalued giant of reggae, rap, and R&B production (Ini Kamoze, Nas, Amy Winehouse). Nas is the kind of artist that he’s his biggest critic. The Formula is a five-episode series on the art of sampling in which acclaimed hip-hop producers show us how they find inspiration in classics, hidden gems, found sounds and other raw musical materials to create new hits. Host: Rodney Carmichael; Producers: Nick Michael, CJ Riculan; Animator: CJ Riculan; Assistant Producer: Ben Naddaff-Hafrey; Director of Photography: Colin Marshall; Editors: Tsering Bista, Maia Stern; Videographers: Colin Marshall, Nickolai Hammar; Audio Recording Engineer: Chris DeAngelis; Audio Mix Engineer: Josh Rogosin; Production Assistant: Shanti Hands; Supervising Producer: Nick Michael; Senior Producer: Abby O'Neill; Consulting Editor: Jacob Ganz; Managing Editor: Becky Lettenberger; Executive Producers: Anya Grundmann, Keith Jenkins, Lauren Onkey. I think most of the songs on this album he liked it, recorded it, had to step away from it like, “I don’t want to hear that, I’m not into it,” then came back to it later on. Guitar, Backing Vocals – Amy Winehouse. He told the engineer to pull up the Salaam track and the engineer pulled up the other track. No I.D did six, I did eight, and then a few other songs were done by other producers like Justice League, Swizz…Buckwild did a song. This YouTube video is Amy Winehouse Live at the Glastonbury Festivals in 2007 performing Fuck Me Pumps. I’m not in anyway saying I control it; I’m a contributor to the pie. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, "Rose Water," DJ Face [series theme track]. LU: Were you involved with the conception of the project, becoming Life Is Good? He said he wanted something like that, I created something like that, and that became how we always worked. Tags: Amy Winehouse, Nas, Salaam Remi. Nas is really musical. He’s musically in tune. Producer Salaam Remi also used classic samples to sonically reinvent Nas and Amy Winehouse. Recorded in May 2008. The thought process was over the last couple of years, not now. 3:15; Amy Winehouse - Back To Black ... [Upright Bass], Drums, Piano – Salaam Remi. At any given point I can spit out ten songs to Nas real quick. SR: We always work the same, the difference with this album is, more songs I worked on made the album, rather than not making the album. The other verses ended up on the bonus album for Stillmatic or maybe God’s Son but either way he recorded “What Goes Around” and “Poison” and I put them together, so that was the start of our released collaboration. Sonic reinvention is Salaam Remi's secret weapon. Prima della pubblicazione dell'album, il 5 dicembre 2011 venne pubblicato, attraverso il canale YouTube della cantante, un video intitolato Amy Winehouse - Hidden Treasures Story, nel quale i produttori descrivono l'album. Guitar, Saxophone [Baritone & Tenor] – Vincent Henry. Trumpet [Bass], Flugelhorn – Bruce Purse. The majority of what was done for this record has been done for quite some time, at least for my part. Eddie "STATS" Imported from Detroit. Fuck Me Pumps was written by Amy Winehouse and Salaam Remi, the song was released in the United Kingdom as the album’s fourth … Continue → The realities of “A Queens Story” are like six, seven years old. I’ll be calling Pete Rock 100 times about a track I heard 20 years ago, “Yo, Pete find the disk, it’ll work, I’m telling you.” If somebody wants to give something to Nas, they’ll hit me up and I’ll put it right in front of him. 2:49; Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry On Their Own. Salaam Remi kicked off 2020 with a new star-studded project titled Do It For The Culture 2. Salaam Remi Gibbs, Amerikalı müzik yapımcısı ve klavyeci. He made the Fugees go ooh-la-la and turned Ini Kamoze into a hotstepper. Nas ve Amy Winehouse ile yaptığı çalışmalarla ve reggae türündeki altyapılarıyla tanınmaktadır. One year ago today, producer Salaam Remi was heading to Amy Winehouse's London home when he heard of her sudden death.. Produced by Salaam Remi. We’re in 2012 now, the divorce started in 2009 and that song came up not too long after so it’s been a process. Read Danyel Smith's essay about the inherent tensions of musical collaborations, and how producers and songwriters like Remi and Babyface manage to make the most out of working with artists ready to make the leap, here. I’m the dude that reaches out and hits up whatever producers, even if it’s dudes from the 90’s era I know. I’m kind of like a storage for ideas. I think it was a culmination of Nas being in a place where he had a lot he wanted to say, and he was also able to get that across and not have to edit it down at the end to get what he wanted to say and edit the music at the same time. He would say I want a record like such and such, and I would go in and start creating from scratch. He listens and if you played a beat for him now, he’ll know if somebody 15 years ago flipped that same sample but used it differently. JS: When did you start to work with Nas? LU: So how is the way you worked with him on this album different then the past? For each video in the series, NPR Music has also asked a writer we love to focus on an element of the video we've made and spin it off in a new direction — to sample it. It was tailor made to exactly what he said. Salaam Remi Gibbs (born May 14, 1972) is an American record producer known for his … Salaam Remi Gibbs (New York, 14 maggio 1972) è un produttore discografico statunitense.Ha collaborato con artisti di fama internazionale quali Amy Winehouse o Nas.Da luglio 2015, conduce un programma radiofonico su Beats 1, il network in diretta mondiale disponibile sul servizio Apple Music, intitolato Gratitude Amy Winehouse‘s producer Salaam Remi has given assurances that the release of the singer’s posthumous album ‘Amy Winehouse Lioness: Hidden Treasures’ will not be … SR: The last two albums were concepts but…on Hip-Hop Is Dead, none of the songs I produced are even on the album. Remi … Buckwild hollered at me so I put him in touch with Nas’ A&R. Unlike most super producers, Salaam Remi doesn’t have an identifiable sound he loans out to various acts. Producer Salaam Remi (Nas, Amy Winehouse) unveiled a new remix of Marvin Gaye’s “Symphony” that will appear on the upcoming release of the late soul legend’s lost album, You’re the Man, out March 29th. WATCH: Salaam Remi Samples Apache For Both Nas and Amy Winehouse Unlike most super producers, Salaam Remi doesn't have an identifiable sound of his own. We’ve done some mixes the last couple of months, but my enjoyment is seeing it see the light of day and people capturing and feeling the emotions that were put into it. When it comes to pulling magic out of songwriters, he's a master collaborator and his sample-based productions for two icons, Nas and Amy Winehouse, are sound proof. It was said by all who worked with Amy that she never sang or played a song the same way … When it drops are you cracking a cigar and enjoying the fruits of this album, or are you not even thinking about that? This isn’t July 17, it’s probably two Julys ago. Today we unveil part two of that interview, wherein Remi goes deep on his involvement in Nas’ #1 summer release Life Is Good and Amy Winehouse’s Back Is Black, dropping some gems along the way, like the origin of the Big Kap intro on “Nasty” and the Amy sitting down at the piano to play “Girl From Ipanema” at their first meeting. And then out of us talking on two-way at the time, he inspired me to make what became “What Goes Around (Poison)” [from Stillmatic]. Written-By – Amy Winehouse (tracks: 1 to 5a, 6b, 8 to 13b), Salaam Remi (tracks: 1b, 2b, 4, 8, 13b) Notes This is the Disctronics pressing (Universal 'Special Edition' pressing here Amy Winehouse - Frank ) I helped him out with “Where Are they Now,” he wanted the James Brown sample and I had to ability to make the track sound good, and I just re-did Will-I-am’s orchestra on “Who Killed It,” cause he was on the road in China or something. He told me a whole bunch of words like “murder, gangsta, soulful,” and I made the track for him, and sent it to him, and he was like, Yo I ain’t got no music on my album that feels like this. From the time we dropped “Nasty,” a lot of the records for me were done. So I sent him that track he was like, Oh sh*t. We worked on a few other things for the Stillmatic album and that’s the one that stuck but he actually wrote like several songs to it. Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer and songwriter. That album was more about the concept than the actual songs, it’s about chemistry too, to actually get your point across and get it there, and then there is Untitled, I produced one song on there, “Can’t Stop Us Now” and then the song we did earlier which didn’t make jack, which was “be a ni***r too.”  So overall what he had from that album was lyrically it was everything he wanted, so a lot of the songs I did for the album didn’t make it either.
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