After cutting his teeth over at Big Beat with The Artifacts, Mad Skillz and Junior M.A.F.I.A, EZ Elpee made important contributions to the catalogs of Queens artists such as Royal Flush, Capone-N-Noreaga and Mobb Deep. Equally adept at delivering smooth joints with R&B hooks as he is constructing traditional street records, EZ put his stamp on the second generation of Bad Boy artists, gave Nas a hit with ‘Oochie Wally’ and even tried to help out Foxy Brown, Lil’ Kim and Amil. Here’s hoping we hear some new music from the EZ Elpee in the near future, but until then…enjoy this selection of eighteen great beats that he’s responsible for.
Download: A Salute To EZ Elpee
Track listing:
01 ‘Iced Down Medallions’ – Royal Flush
02 ‘Bloody Money’ – Capone-N-Noreaga
03 ‘Get Money’ – Junior M.A.F.I.A.
04 ‘Get Away’ – Mobb Deep
05 ‘H.N.I.C’ – Prodigy of Mobb Deep
06 ‘Make ‘Em Die’ – Pudgee
07 ‘Special Delivery’ – G. Dep
08 ‘Bad Boyz’ – Shyne feat. Barrington Levy
09 ‘Ded Right’ – All City
10 ‘Spit’ – Da Franchise feat. Nature, Pretty Ugly and Spade
11 ‘My World’ – Big Pun
12 ‘Family Problems’ – Royal Flush
13 ‘Service’ – Mike Zoot
14 ‘Thug Shit’ – Akinyele
15 ‘What We Do’ – Sauce Money feat. Memphis Bleek
16 ‘Communications’ – Screwball featuring Prince AD aka Killa Sha
17 ‘Who I Am’ – The Artifacts
18 ‘Unseen World’ – Mad Skillz feat. Dr. Mindbenda, Javon The Medieval, Kalonji The Immortal, Lil’ Roc and Lonnie B.
Dude gets mad overlooked when talkin’ ’bout dope ’90’s producers. Bloody Money still bangs til this day…
i was listening “I Love My Life” from N.O.R.E. just yesterday.
very underrated producer. he made straight hits, almost everything he did was fire.
“remember” by nature and “all we got iz us” by cnn are choice selections. could have done without his bad boy stuff.
Ha, I just Googled Shyne to see what happened to him. Apparently he lives in Jerusalem as a Hasidic Jew! I think the kids these days say ‘Who’d have thunk it?’.
@alafina: I hated that Nature album.
I’m so glad you put Family Problems on there. May be my favorite beat of his.. Great producer. I often wonder if he’s still active. Bravehearts need another Oochie Wally.
He was a tell it like it is kind of guy, which is why we never heard him talk. One of the few interviews he had in the Source he said that Bob James or someone of the like was an asshole for not clearing the sample.
Caesar’s right. I remember he mentioning Blunt focused on Mic Geronimo’s second album more than the Royal Flush, he was quite open in interviews.
Greatest left out: “Rotten Apple” by Royal Flush – wasn’t it a EZ Elpee beat also ?