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’12 Best Beats: #4 Salaam Remi “Queens Story”

Tuesday, January 08 2013 3:00 PM EST | Posted by: B.Dot | Posted in: Album Reviews, Blog

Nas had a story to tell. It wouldn’t be the first time he talked about his Queens hometown, but it would become his most memorable. With Salaam Remi on the boards, the Q.U. producer allows aggressive strings to confront an unforgiving boom bap. The results are harmonious and leave Esco’s manuscript sounding stupid!

Salaam Remi Named Sony VP of A&R

Tuesday, November 20 2012 2:17 PM EST | Posted by: Big Homie | Posted in: Blog, True Story

Here’s a Queens story with a happy ending. Grammy Award winning producer/songwrtier Salaam Remi has been appointed as Sony Music’s VP of A&R. Congrats!

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New Music: Nas “Bye Baby”

Monday, July 09 2012 6:12 PM EST | Posted by: Big Homie | Posted in: Blog, Music

The consistency continues as Nasir airs out his past marriage’s highs and lows for the album’s closing track. Produced by Salaam Remi and Noah “40″ Shebib. Life’s so much better now, but Life Is Good on July 17.

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New Music: Nelly Furtado x Nas “Something”

Sunday, June 03 2012 12:02 PM EST | Posted by: Big Homie | Posted in: Blog, Music

Here’s something dope from Nelly Furtado with a sharp verse from Esco. Expect this Salaam Remi-produced cut to be featured off the forthcoming album, The Spirit Indestructible arriving September 18.


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New Music: Nas “The Don”

Thursday, March 15 2012 4:33 PM EST | Posted by: Big Homie | Posted in: Blog, Music

After heating up the block last summer with “Nasty“, Esco bosses up for NYC with his new single, produced by Salaam Remi, Da Internz and co-produced by Heavy D. The tentativey-titled album, Life Is Good, coming soon. Lyrics here.


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New Music: B.o.B x Andre 3000 “Play The Guitar”

Monday, December 26 2011 11:31 PM EST | Posted by: Big Homie | Posted in: Blog, Music

3 Stacks keeps his guest spots rolling and joins Bobby Ray for his latest cut. The full product arrives on Amazon next Tuesday, but here’s a 30 second snippet. Produced by Salaam Remi.


UPDATE: Full version. Cop on iTunes now.


Amy Winehouse Covers VIBE

Thursday, July 28 2011 10:03 AM EST | Posted by: Big Homie | Posted in: Blog, Newsstand Stan

Sharing the cover of VIBE‘s Aug/Sept JUICE issue with Kelly Rowland, is the late Amy Winehouse. Below producer Salaam Remi shares his final days with Amy. Issue on newsstands August 16.

I’m in London now. I’m out here because [Amy and I] were supposed to go to a wedding today. And before I could get to her yesterday she passed. We were going to the wedding of Nick Symansky, who is the person who really found her. He found her when he was a scout at 19. And he was the manager before they got the Universal deal.

They went ahead with the wedding. All I could do was sit there and imagine how many jokes she would have been cracking with me. We were in the middle of working on the album. She finished writing the record. We just hadn’t recorded.

For the last couple of weeks we were video chatting regularly. I was just talking to Nas. Both her and Nas were born on September 14, so we were going to Barbados with all of them for her birthday. She really doesn’t look forward to her birthday, you know what I’m saying?

In related news, Amy’s Back To Black returns to the Billboard charts at #9 with 37k sold and its #1 on iTunes.

New Music: Nas “Nasty”

Monday, June 13 2011 7:12 PM EST | Posted by: Big Homie | Posted in: Blog, Music

Nasty Nas makes his return with the first single off his next solo album, Life Is Good. Nasir planned to drop this tonight, but Flex just dropped the bomb earlier than expected. Produced by Salaam Remi.


UPDATE: Dirty with no tags.


New Music: CJ Hilton x Nas “So Fresh”

Wednesday, April 27 2011 11:44 PM EST | Posted by: Big Homie | Posted in: Blog, R&B

This slipped under our radar last week, but better late than never. Here J Records’ new R&B crooner CJ Hilton releases a fresh new tune featuring Esco. Produced by Salaam Remi. This goes down smooth.


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