Make me do a double-take

Last spring a pool serviced me with a new song credited to Kurupt that featured him and some other folks rapping over a bubbly, Prince-ish track. The song was kinda lo-fi but sexy and addictive. I tried to track down a higher-quality version but googling just led to some crappy home-made youtube videos with comments suggesting the song was actually by Terrace Martin. I thought, "who"?"

Last week I picked up the new Snoop Dogg album and Martin’s name was all over the credits—he co-produced a couple tracks and seemed to have his hands in about half of the others, whether arranging, mixing, singing or playing various instruments. Curiosity led me to his myspace, where there’s an album-length mixtape you can download free. The drops are annoying but there a ton of unreleased songs with Snoop, Kurupt and others (Too $hort!) as well as the dirty version of the song below, which is the one that got me curious in the first place.


Terrace Martin feat. Kurupt, Problem & Mykestro: “All Night”