I keep digging into Colombian music, and today’s find is exceptional – the source track for Timbaland’s ‘Get to Poppin‘ beat! MuddUp reader Tony IDed it awhile back, but nobody had the recording…
I’d forgotten that I was looking for it until I stumbled across this excellent Aspic records compilation, Colombia – La Ceiba.
EstefanÃa Caicedo, Totó la Momposina, Paulino Salgado – La Verdolaga
Everything on the CD is as good as this (incluso mejor…) Booklet includes bilingual liner notes & lyrics, which i’ll share next week. As with the other Totó la Momposina-related song that Timbaland has used (La Curura sampled/rebranded into Indian Flute), the words to this one form deep folky poetry. A disfrutar!
I knew ‘La Verdolaga’ because of the awesome version by P18 that Tony mentioned in his post, but I did not know it was a traditional Cumbia. Thanks for this version
timbaland wasn’t credited for that beat when the song appeared on the album. i think he is listed on the physical 12″ though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Boy_(album)
thanks for the correction Judd. Diplo said the same thing – that it’s Brian Kidd’s production. the New York Times & a bunch of other places all said it was Timbo in the beginning. He *did* sample Toto La Momposina ‘first’, although this tune is a much more obscure/hard to find release, and props to Kidd, he really flips it.
la verdolaga also appears on the men with guns soundtrack
THIS AINT the correct colombian version. This is a collab version with a few different artists.
Its been recorded quite a few times. Many of us at the timbaland forums knew about this since July of 2005
The one where timbo directly lift it from is where Totó la Momposina sings the lead solo through out the track.
Hit me up if you need.
this is produced by Brian Kidd, former co-producer of Timbaland who’s now rollin deep with Polow Da Don.
I think it sucks that Timbaland stole from Toto.. She made it so much better, and it’s more of a native colombian sound, and then he messed it all up with his Indian flute Rap hip hop.. meh..
On this page, or if you click my name you’ll hear my mix starting with P18’s version (into a beat track I made based on another bullerengue song) + a lot of other styles (afrobeat, techno, champeta, mapalé etc. etc.)
http://africolombia.blogspot.com/search/label/Champetas%20de%20Colombia
Produced by Brian Kidd