Imani Coppola - LUV Is A Three Letter Word (Soul Kiss Remix) feat. Poetic Soldiers

Well I guess this is it for now with the Imani Coppola remixes... I'm out of acappellas! For this one, I grabbed some partial song pieces she had made available for download, and combined them over a half-time / double-time reggae beat. There still just wasn't enough song there, so I had the idea to grab an old rap acappella from an artist I produced in the past. The first thing to come to mind was the song "Soul Kiss" by Poetic Soldiers, which I'd produced and recorded with rapper Russ D back in 1991. So I dug up the old 4-track cassette master, isolated his vocals, and ported it into the new music, stretching and shifting where necessary. It's not perfect sounding, not only because it's a track off a thirty-year-old cassette, but also because in order to preserve track space back then I often recorded to track with effects, so there's just too much burned-in reverb on his voice. I de-reverbed it a little, added some compression, some de-essing, and it still sounds a bit muddy AND tinny at the same time, if that's possible. But I think the idea is cool, and I've always loved his lyrics on this one. So there you go, a mashup of a couple of unreleased Imani songs, and a now-ancient rap song I recorded with a good friend and talented artist when we were both in our late teens, over some brand-new reggae disco funk! Y'know, all in a day's work around here... Instrumental version here: https://soundcloud.com/type4/luv-is-a-three-letter-word-soul-kiss-instrumental