The Pharcyde - Runnin' - Jay Dee aka J. Dilla remix

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Delicious Vinyl and Traffic Entertainment Group present this incredibly unique pressing of "Runnin'", the first single off The Pharcyde's second and critically acclaimed album Labcabincalifornia. The song, featuring all four members Imani, SlimKid3, Bootie Brown and Fatlip, peaked at #55 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1995. There are four non-album versions of "Runnin", including the "Jay Dee Extended Mix" and two non-album versions of "Drop". The song "Drop" is best known for it's incredible, totally backwards video directed by the one and only Spike Jonze. The extended mix and instrumental version of the cut are included here. Red vinyl on the left, blue vinyl on the right -- or is that blue on the left and red on the right? Either way this novel and unorthodox colored vinyl pressing is sure to excite Pharcyde fans new and old.
Side A
1 Runnin' (Jay Dee Extended Mix)
2 Runnin' (Smooth Extended Mix)
3 Runnin' (Jay Dee Instrumental)
Side B
4 Drop (Extended Mix)
5 Drop (Instrumental)
6 Runnin' (Acapella)

[@sky1luv793]

I remember when I heard this remix one time when this single came out. For years, I would tell people there is a version that sampled the Gap band. No one else heard it. Thank God for KZbin, I was starting to think I had a hallucination 20 some years ago. Lol

[@debayanbanerjee]

Know that feel bro. A tune lost in time that lingers in your mind forever.

[@japhethpace5766]

If my memory serves me right, it was a b side release on their passin me by single. I’ll have to check my collection! Loved this remix!

[@improvisewitme]

Same

[@veritas17]

This was legit what I was feeling too! So happy this person posted this

[@theberiah]

Japheth Pace Drop cd maxi single :)

[@GoldenBox467]

2024 checking in. Let this be the light to your new journey! Love you guys

[@FinessedAnalyzer]

R.I.P. Jay Dee Beautiful, black soulful music.

[@mwalia]

only just discovered this........ my days, gorgeous!

[@aelcheapogmail]

20+ Years later I am finally hearing this!? I used to be a DJ how did I miss this one?

[@DialogPro]

Love this remix so much.

[@Loverrover]

thanks for the upload I heard this once back in 95 and have been looking for it since! Jay Dilla was a genius of hip hop and is still underappreciated for his contributions to this thing called hip hop! So glad my first born who is 19 is a fan of Dilla just like me .

[@eogalaxy7196]

LaDaryl Barker yep, my daughter the same. Only 19 but a big fan of the old school. Her fav are digable planets and nas.

[@128djxcel]

I love this version so much. I love u dilla. R.i.p.

[@MrZinhani]

the original and Gap Band Yearning For Your Love classic

[@128djxcel]

Jay dee is The Best hands down!!!!!!!!! nobody compares!!!

[@delamartey63]

Love, love, love this tune. Big up the uploader! Been looking for this mix for nearly 20 years. When i saw it back in 1995, it was called US Remix, so didn't reaqlise it was Dilla. Real Hip Hop!!

[@ausencia63]

I'd never heard this version but this is the one that I'll buy x

[@r.a.d.h.e.r.7758]

L.E.S. the producer for Nas' Life's a Bitch off of Illmatic also came with the Yearning For Your Love sample. RIP James Yancey.

[@saint5ify]

It's a song that will always sound great no matter who or how it is sampled! Nas and AZ killed it to that track, but AZ definitely took the spotlight from Nas, and that is hard to do!

[@legendarilyrefined]

Got the chance to see Fatlip, Slim Kid Tre and LA Jay a week ago in NYC and they killed it...saw Imani and Booty Brown back in '06 going on before The Roots and they rocked the show as well. Looking forward to one day seeing them all on the same stage together. Loved this remix just as much as the original and loved how Dilla sampled The Gap Band's "Yearning For Your Love" to create this beat. Happy Birthday Jay Dee and thanks for all of the work you did on "Labcabincalifornia".

[@raymondmoran5674]

Got a chance to open up for fat lip 2 years ago was an absolute dream 🎉😢

[@sherwinfitz]

This is phat! Had never heard this "Yearnin'" remix of Runnin'. Thanks for uploading.

[@Qstar36]

Abosutely Incredible... Love this Mixx!!! Nuff Respect 2 The Pharcyde & J. Dilla (R.I.P.)

[@tonyjackson6031]

j dilal was soo dope god rest his soul : along with dre the best 2 to ever do it

[@JensRosengren]

Wow fantastic! J. Dilla really was amazing! Looking forward to the release! I hope it hits either iTunes or Spotify!

[@justinryanweaver]

best version imo

[@raymondmoran5674]

Got the honor of opening for fat lip two years ago definitely a dream

[@clothes2theheart]

thanks for the post

[@kramtronix]

Best version of the track. Had the white label. Never knew it was Dilla!

[@WeBoogie28]

right..had to go back a do research

[@yungcoetz1678]

both versions are dilla

[@kategrabos9069]

not often such a radical remix is as good as the original but this a brilliant reinterpretation.

[@IFeelSoTongueTied]

the best part is both are produced by the same person

[@47AdriRamiAKAETHG]

Only Dilla can remix his own beat, and top his previous version

[@aelcheapogmail]

When I saw this post I was like how and then I was like oh yeah that Jay Dee

[@CoCo3one3]

Dope Dilla face sticker on my back windshield rollin' around Detroit showing respect like I'm spose to. Dilla will always be amongst Motown's finest! Rest In Beats

[@paulwaymondo7568]

Still got the cd single 💪🔥

[@chriswhiteiii]

tears

[@brennanhenry]

I think this is super dope

[@recordxstore9155]

Love is song

[@QstArMedia]

Fire!!!

[@Rooster_joe]

Man been looking for the smoothbeats remix for years since I heard it on their online station back in the day. I used to use streamripper and download all the tracks and had this one but my computer took a shit and lost everything 😿😿 RIP SMOOTHBEATS STATION!

[@user-wr5yk1wz8d]

thank you Charlie Wilson.

[@128djxcel]

and this is just a simple sample. and it sounds so dooope!!!

[@charlesakana]

weekend love..

[@stebeatmaker3951]

This track is magic

[@SoDismal]

Who else hears "Lifes a Bitch" by Nas?

[@47AdriRamiAKAETHG]

Same sample

[@cem4376]

@@47AdriRamiAKAETHG But Dilla flipped it way better

[@h2junkey]

No, what you hear is Yearning by The Gap Band.

[@kobemarley8909]

Who else heard the rimshot from outkast Rosa parks? Or did outkast get it from here?

[@rahsaanthomas7030]

I hear a Gap Band sample...

[@richardnelson3671]

GET 2 BOTTLES OF NYQUIL CAUSE THIS IS SICK!

[@BigDapPacino]

J Dilla gave Pharcyde some of his best music!

[@willnzsurf]

😏

[@willnzsurf]

🌴😎💯

[@smoothsupa2122]

The realness

[@malasideas00]

true jay dee

[@h2junkey]

Slim Kid Trey singing the hook!

[@Woter_X]

Dam

[@princetoncole]

this shit is hot!!

[@omarfarrag7197]

Need Sunshine And A Low-Rider, Let The Song Do The Rest....

[@thelankytank]

did you just mix runnin and lifes a bitch? holy shit this is genius

[@user-wr5yk1wz8d]

young mc recorded on this label.

[@markmarker1907]

Gap Band :)

[@BigDapPacino]

That is slick...but I still prefer the original...the Pharcyde was so talented especially Slim Kid Tre...he had a incredible flow and a nice singing voice...this just shows how versatile they were...too bad, the group splintered with only two members repping Pharcyde...I hope they would all come back together and bless us with some new music!

[@chriswhiteiii]

94.625 BPM

[@trishoneal8518]

Lowkey lackadaisical 🔥.

[@modmav5594]

Same sample used for AZ/Nas life's a bitch

[@d.kashani]

@milan stankovic your thinkin of life's a bitch by Nas. They sound similar

[@DevellHipHop]

are you kidding? you know nothing. This is the Pharcyde. Always was, the beat has been remixed

[@47AdriRamiAKAETHG]

Everyone knows

[@47AdriRamiAKAETHG]

Who did it better? Nas Or Pharcyde?

[@rahsaanthomas7030]

There's no need to compare. Paris also borrowed the Gap Band sample.

[@Taxidermistification]

This instrumental is very nice. It goes with Fat Lips ad-libbing but the lyrics don't match.

[@coldgenuinedraft3060]

Taxidermistification little bit, but it's still sooo good to listen to. I'm zoning

[@eqproductionz]

No way this is classic can't agree

[@47AdriRamiAKAETHG]

I feel like this shows the actual meaning behind the lyrics

[@saint5ify]

WAY better than the original version, which is great too, but nothing compared to this! I'm a huge fan of The Pharcyde and The Gap Band, and that boy J. Dilla can really produce one hell of a track/sample. Another one of the Detroit greats! R.I.P. Jay Dee!

[@cem4376]

this is the best beat ever i think

[@colostomyJones]

Y’all realize Dilla made the original album version beat as well as this remix, yes? I’m a huge fan of his original beat for Runnin and as a jazz musician, onetime jazz radio DJ and fellow hip hop producer, I gotta stickup for the original and just how dope it is! From a producer’s POV I think I appreciate juuuust a little more than the average listener because I’m hearing what he did to make it. I used to spin the jazz samba LP (Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, et al) on the radio and call attention to the momentary snatch of guitar riff that comes and goes before you even hear it... To be able to hear that riff and then know it has the potential to be sampled and flipped just right (2x from that song- blue album) and then slap those hard ass bass-beautiful kick drums down over those gentle strings...!?? Gorgeous. Took way more skill for him to make that original than it did to sample the gap band riff wholesale, though I love ‘em both lol Why force yourself to choose? Love ‘em both!

[@07questionmark]

I thought Dilla produced the original one too

[@Potatox1998]

He did

[@mandeepwalia7128]

Ok, extremely annoying. The tracklisting above is for the wrong 12'. You won't get this 'yearning...' version on it. You need to buy Drop, released in '96: www.discogs.com/sell/item/137057569

[@chillhopper1]

Thanks for the information! Just wanted to add that there is also an unofficial release called "Labcabin Remixes & B-Sides" where you can find this amazing Dilla remix :)

[@mandeepwalia7128]

Tha good shit just keeps on comin' - nice one my man!

[@cyrushedayati1401]

Thank you both! ^_^

[@domju6546]

So, so the original its better