It's been a while since I've wanted to blog something; a while since I heard music that was blog-worthy. Anything that truly motivated me to write. While sitting here listening to Shyne's "Bad Boys" (2000) I started to zero in on the bass. The bass is really what make that song go so hard... true beat heads have to acknowledge that the bass in that song is really what you love about it. Shyne's verses were hot, his flow was mean, but the beat was a terror. That made me think... " What instrument is producing the bass in this song? That's not a drum." No... It sounds like a specific key on a piano; not just any piano, but a grand concert piano, or at least a keyboard. It could easily be sample of Elton John. Something way down at the end of the keys. I have no idea what the key it is to be exact, but I will eventually find out. Perhaps its G-flat... A pianist would know better than me. Or it could have been an 808. And a light-bulb we...