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Exile feat. Blu: When Nothing’s Left From 4TRK Mind (Soulspazm, 2011) This Exile/Blu collabo has been in steady rotation for a minute and it got me thinking about how signature and powerful Otis Redding’s voice is. Obviously, Ye and Jay’s “Otis” made this clear to but in enjoying “When Nothing’s Left,” it got me to thinking about other examples of Otis’s voice coming directly into a sample.1 One of my all-time favorite examples is this: Grand Puba: Check tha Resume From R...

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