Friends (Wizzattz OG Vibe & Instrumental Remake)

[kool81]

Another homerun... a sweet addition to my [MENTION=16672]kool81 aka Wizzattz folder.

Thanks for the drop and your comments in the first post.
I always enjoy reading about your vision and the process behind it.

[MENTION=943]MrMind thanks for doing what you do and helping make these drops possible!

No problem bro. I was watching something the other day about music and the person had mentioned that "liner notes" seem to be a lost art when it comes to music in this digital age

[kool81]

[MENTION=16672]kool81 If it might help u with QDIII remakes in the future. He used the Roland JV-1080 synth, as did Hurt & Darryll Harper too. A lot of the sounds u could probably find in there

Thanks man I'll keep that in mind if i do anymore QD3 based music

[JohnLund213]

This is fire as usual. Thanks for your contribution to the scene.

[Exodus]

great work as always

[Dominator]

Very well done, bro!

Friends is one of the OG's that's near impossible to remake. Maybe because everyone loves this song and every detail has burned into our memory over decades. Almost everybody failed at remaking it so far, same with Enemies With Me and My Dyin' Day, but this is a pretty decent remake that does the song justice.

Criticizing on a very high level here:
- the "doo doo doo" keys are too loud
- the synthesizer is slightly higher at the end on the OG, or it varies. It's not just the same riff all over and over again. I don't know how they made it on the song, maybe they played multiple keys together at the same time that gives it this unique sound.
- your remake could use a proper mastering to make it burst harder

[C4poTheDon]

Very well done, bro!

Friends is one of the OG's that's near impossible to remake. Maybe because everyone loves this song and every detail has burned into our memory over decades. Almost everybody failed at remaking it so far, same with Enemies With Me and My Dyin' Day, but this is a pretty decent remake that does the song justice.

Criticizing on a very high level here:
- the "doo doo doo" keys are too loud
- the synthesizer is slightly higher at the end on the OG, or it varies. It's not just the same riff all over and over again. I don't know how they made it on the song, maybe they played multiple keys together at the same time that gives it this unique sound.
- your remake could use a proper mastering to make it burst harder

the unique sound at the end is from echoing the riff but with variations, very nice synths in the original also. Would had been the bomb propperly mastered. might be also a preset synth that Roland got many great sounds with different stuff preset. or a straight feature form the synth.

[JohnLund213]

Copy & Paste from YouTube description.

For this 2Pac OG Vibe I had started working on the beat when fellow YouTuber [MENTION=14144]The Perculator asked if I could remake "Friends" in the comment section for my OG Vibe Instrumental for "Killuminati", but I kinda sat on it for a while, cuz it wasn't turning out quite right at the time. Just yesterday [MENTION=943]MrMind hit me up and asked the same thing and sent me an extremely nice acapella that he extracted from the latest version of "Friends" (OG) that came out a while ago. (I'm not sure what that version is called, but my guess is that it would be called a "Later Mixdown" or a "Final Mixdown".)

https://youtu.be/2nw_8X9OtPM

Now I probably would've only done an instrumental remake for this song since the real instrumental isn't available, but the problem I've had with the latest version is, despite it being in such a beautifully high quality, the beat is on a constant loop with no breaks or arrangements, making me (and I'm sure some of you too) go back to listen to the old bootleg version from back in the day or the Killuminati: The 3 Day Theory version just to hear those arrangements.

https://youtu.be/NFYFaU9ey5Y

So with this mix I've tried my best to find all the all the right or similar instruments to recreate the QD3 produced track with the arrangements of the OG bootleg version.
I'm sure everyone knows by now that 2Pac's "Friends" is an Interpolation of "Friends" by Whodini, (Great group btw ��) but for info reasons I'm adding that to this description

https://youtu.be/o5r0i2ZAbCc

For the Kick and the Snare I sampled "I'm Glad You're Mine" by Al Green

https://youtu.be/GbaZTTCInEI

For the interpolated "Friends" chimes I tried to replay them originally, but I couldn't find the right instrument, so I just sampled the end section of the version of "Friends" that appears on the compilation "Too Gangsta For Radio"

https://youtu.be/GQ3I7kA1ItI

I did everything else from scratch using instruments from Reason 8.0
I did a few new light arrangements towards the end by adding in the guy from the Too Gangsta For Radio version to end the song like that version.

Song

Instrumental

Great job at remaking the og. Probably the beat remake I've ver heard here. The acapella you used is not the final version that leaked in the day with Queen on the intro shots being fired during the first verse and the asses in the air line during the end. Idk if I misunderstood what you wrote so I'm just putting it out there.

As far as the question part I'm pretty sure that's Dr.Dres Vocal there in a slick way to throw another shot at Dre since he gets dissed in the track

[kool81]

This is fire as usual. Thanks for your contribution to the scene.

No prob bro. Glad to contribute.

[kool81]

great work as always

Thanks man, i appreciate it and you checking it out

[kool81]

Very well done, bro!

Friends is one of the OG's that's near impossible to remake. Maybe because everyone loves this song and every detail has burned into our memory over decades. Almost everybody failed at remaking it so far, same with Enemies With Me and My Dyin' Day, but this is a pretty decent remake that does the song justice.

Criticizing on a very high level here:
- the "doo doo doo" keys are too loud
- the synthesizer is slightly higher at the end on the OG, or it varies. It's not just the same riff all over and over again. I don't know how they made it on the song, maybe they played multiple keys together at the same time that gives it this unique sound.
- your remake could use a proper mastering to make it burst harder

I figure it's a matter of having similar or exact instruments to do remakes. At the end of the day though even the most perfect remake is still just that... A "remake" or in this case an "OG Vibe" lol.

[kool81]

Great job at remaking the og. Probably the beat remake I've ver heard here. The acapella you used is not the final version that leaked in the day with Queen on the intro shots being fired during the first verse and the asses in the air line during the end. Idk if I misunderstood what you wrote so I'm just putting it out there.

As far as the question part I'm pretty sure that's Dr.Dres Vocal there in a slick way to throw another shot at Dre since he gets dissed in the track

Thanks man. I find it a bit hard to believe that vocal being a Dre vocal, but if it is that's funny and messed up at the same time lol smh.

[therealtruealtog]

I really like this remake, it's like a blend of the TGFR version and the OG.
[MENTION=16672]kool81 clear your messages bro I need to send you something.

[JohnLund213]

Thanks man. I find it a bit hard to believe that vocal being a Dre vocal, but if it is that's funny and messed up at the same time lol smh.

You don't recognise his voice? Messed up or not it fits Death Row profile lol

[kool81]

You don't recognise his voice? Messed up or not it fits Death Row profile lol

it kinda does sounds like him with a phaser or a flanger on the vocal

[realest2947]

it kinda does sounds like him with a phaser or a flanger on the vocal

Any links coming soon bro?