My only issue with this song is its placement on the album as it would have been a lot more effective to open things up with a more uptempo song.įunky Technician – This Diamond D produced instrumental (most of you will recognize the sample that was also used on Das EFX’s classic “They Want EFX”) would have worked much better as the opening song on Funky Technician as Finesse completely demolishes the instrumental. Lord Finesse’s Them Song Intro – Plays exactly how the title reads.īaby, You Nasty (New Version) – Lord Finesse spits his signature boastful punch lines over a vintage Premo instrumental. Let’s see how it sounds 20 plus years later. Reading the liner notes for Funky Technician is kind of exciting when you look at all the producers involved that would eventually go on to be considered the best in our genre: DJ Premier, Showbiz, and Diamond D. Finesse would release two more albums without Mike Smooth’s assistance, before fading into the sunset never to be heard from again, until the release of Mac Miller’s mixtape, which left Finesse licking his chops seeing this as a prime opportunity to get paid so he could quit his part-time job as a UPS package handler. If you haven’t figured about by now who this veteran emcee is (which all you had to do was look at the frickin’ title of this write-up to figure that out…duh!) it would be no one other than Lord Finesse, who is also the founder of the legendary DITC (Diggin’ In The Crates) crew, which produced the likes of, Showbiz & AG, Diamond D, O.C., Big L, and unfortunately, Fat Joe.įinesse along with his partner DJ Mike Smooth released their debut album (and only album as a duo) Funky Technician on Wild Pitch Records in 1990. Veteran Emcee? I guess old disgruntled rappers who haven’t release an album since the mid nineties have to eat too. The fact that this instrumental was used on a free mixtape Miller released made me wonder how in the hell the veteran emcee could justify a $10 million price tag on an instrumental that A, he sampled from someone else (and damn sure didn’t pay 10 mil to use it), and B, the song he used the instrumental on wasn’t a huge hit by any stretch of the imagination, nor was Mac’s version, and again, the mix tape was released as a free download, so if Mac Miller aint getting paid why would you expect to see green, Mr.

The other day I read an article about the latest great white hope rapper, Mac Miller, being sued by a veteran east coast emcee for $10 million for using one of said emcee’s instrumentals without his permission.

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