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LP/management would have had to provide a Papercut acapella for that mashup, which isn't something that's publicly available. I'd consider it official for that reason. You're right about David Banner though, production of that mixtape was all by Vlad and Rock Raida (with the exception of the D12 vs. Mobb Depp vs. Queen track, which was done by Green Lantern). I'm also not entirely sure which members of the X-Ecutioners were actually involved in X-Ecutioner Style.

He's not playing the drum part anywhere close to how it's played in the song. He throws a lot of his own interpretation in there, like he does with all of his drum covers. He completely skips the double kicks when they appear, playing eighth notes where Rob plays sixteenths (to be fair, the double kicks aren't very audible in the full mix, but they're clear as day on the stems). I doubt there's a human being on earth who can play sixteenth notes at 200 BPM with a single pedal.

Well, we obviously know of one person in this thread who has zero experience recording vocals in a studio environment...

Rakim's verse is 24 bars long (technically 48, but for the sake of matching BPMs to other raps, I think it's much easier to cut the BPM down to 100 and double the length of each bar in this case). Mike tends to rap in 8 or 16-bar groups, but he has done some 12-bar verses as well. You'd probably have to put two verses together to fill it out. The first thing that comes to mind that fits within those parameters is if you combined both verses from In Stereo.

I take back what I said about the Project Spark mix of GATS, all of that stuff is actually in the regular version of the song, the mixing is just different (in much the same way as the Guitar Hero/Rock Band multitracks are - the songs are musically the same, but the volume levels of the different elements are way different than they are in the regular mix).

And more accurately, the "guitar" and "bass" tracks are more like "guitar/electronics" and "bass/synth/keys." The guitar at the very beginning of the intro is also found in the drum track too (Mike mentioned in an interview that the intro was the regular riff run through a small amplifier and recorded with a single microphone, so those first few seconds of the song are probably all on one track on the Pro Tools session).

The guitar and bass tracks don't sound remotely "bad quality" to me...

So do people still think there are no electronics in this song? Kind of annoyed that they're mixed in with the guitar and bass tracks though. Kind of hinders the "remixability" of the stems. And I think I just invented a new word.

They haven't really ruled out there being a "regular" GATS video at some point, people just seem to be jumping to that conclusion.

If anything, the title "True Chainz" is intentionally making fun of 2 Chainz. No way would LP have him on a track, he's easily one of the two worst emcees in the history of mainstream music, along with Juicy J.

Yeah, definitely a different mix. The whole song has a weird "underwater" kind of tone to it that may not be intentional (the audio on the WID music video on LP's Youtube channel is all fucked up too and has been since the day it was uploaded - Youtube does weird shit to the audio depending on the encoding of the original file), but the levels are also a lot different, there's an additional vocal part an octave below the melody during the second verse, and Rakim's last "you're guilty" line echoes a lot longer on this version. *Edit* And yep, stems for the song should definitely be available on Project Spark. Unfortunately I don't have an Xbox One or a device that runs on Windows 8 (nor do I ever intend to own either one), so I won't be taking part in this. I guess it's up to other people to get the stems...hopefully this doesn't turn into another Guitar Hero/Rock Band stems type situation where it takes over a year for them to actually get "out there."

4th track down is "Line in the Sand (Odyssey)." And the last one is definitely "Mark the Graves (Plato)." *Edit* And yep, song title above everything else is "Until It's Gone," no visible working title for that one though.

Doesn't say anything about it coming from High Voltage, just that Mike re-tuned some of his existing MPC piano samples while creating My December. If you pitch shift the High Voltage loop down to My December's key it still doesn't sound anything like it. High Voltage is also a 4-note sequence that repeats twice per bar using 3 pitches, while My December is a 16-note sequence that repeats once every two bars using 4 pitches.

No it isn't. Same note pattern, but different key, and one is a piano while the other is a synthesizer loop. That's like saying the guitar in From the Inside is sampled from Faint just because it uses the same chord progression.

The instrumental is basically a bunch of FL Studio stock samples with some compression and reverb thrown on them: http://music.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to...tudio--audio-63

It fascinates me that the Believe Me sample seems to be "rediscovered" every couple years and so many people seem to have never known about it...yet I've had the Orchestra Strings 08 file on my external hard drive since somebody posted it on the Fort Minor message board in December of 2005. Not to mention that Mike talks about it in nearly every Fort Minor-era interview that mentions Believe Me.

You sure he's not playing his floor tom with his right hand? I don't really hear the ride cymbal at all.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's actually doors 6:00/show 6:30. My tickets have a 6:30 start time printed on them. No specific mention of when doors open, but the event site says 30 minutes before the show.

I didn't think of this before, but could this potentially be a co-headlining tour? Maybe LP won't be playing last every night...

That was the only one Mike used on the album, according to interviews from when it came out.

Pooch.

This is exactly the same as any other live performance of Valentine's Day as far as I can tell...?

I HIGHLY doubt that a combination of pedals that produces such a trippy filtered/oscillating tremolo sound as the one heard on the outro solo on GATS would be used on more than one song. That's not a combination of pedals you just hook together for standard guitar tracks, that's something you come up with through a lot of experimentation trying to find a specific sound that you want to use on a specific part.