The Surviving Elements: From Soul Survivor II Sessions is the second instrumental album from Hip Hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

 Pete Rock

Pete Rock

Peter Phillips , better known by his stage name Pete Rock, is an American record producer, DJ and rapper. He rose to prominence in the early 1990s as one half of the critically acclaimed group Pete Rock & CL Smooth...

. The album features leftover beats that were created during the recording of Pete's 2004 album Soul Survivor II

Soul Survivor II

Soul Survivor II is a 2004 album from hip hop producer Pete Rock. The album features guest appearances from a large number of hip hop artists, including Pharoahe Monch, Little Brother, Skillz, RZA, GZA, Talib Kweli, Dead Prez, Slum Village, Jay Dee and former partner CL Smooth.Pete, who dropped...

. According to Pete Rock himself, BBE released this album without his permission and negated to clear the samples used for some of the tracks. Legal action was taken against the label by Pete. The Surviving Elements was re-released on January 13, 2009. Featuring the original 15 album tracks. The track "Placebo" eventually became Northern State's "Time to Rhyme."

Track listing

#	Title	Producer(s)	Performer (s)
1	"You Remind Me"	Pete Rock	*Instrumental*
2	"Hop, Skip & Jump"	Pete Rock	*Instrumental*
3	"(Pimp) Strut"	Pete Rock	*Instrumental*
4	"Glowing"	Pete Rock	*Instrumental*
5	"Smoking Room Only"	Pete Rock	*Instrumental*
6	"Flying"	Pete Rock	*Instrumental*
7	"Marching On"	Pete Rock	*Instrumental*
8	"Placebo"	Pete Rock	*Instrumental*
9	"Standard"	Pete Rock	*Instrumental*
10	"Midnight and You"	Pete Rock	*Instrumental*
11	"Fairground"	Pete Rock	*Instrumental*
12	"Stormy Weather"	Pete Rock	*Instrumental*
13	"Hip 2 Hip"	Pete Rock	*Instrumental*
14	"U Are What U Are"	Pete Rock	*Instrumental*
15	"Intrigue"	Pete Rock	*Instrumental*

Samples

• "You Remind Me"
  • "You Ought to Be With Me
    You Ought to Be With Me
    "You Ought to Be with Me" is the name of a song by Al Green. Released from his album, Call Me, the single spent a week at number one on the Hot Soul Singles chart. It was also successful on the pop chart, peaking at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in late 1972. It sold over one...
    
    " by Al Green
    Al Green
    Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer. He reached the peak of his popularity in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "You Oughta Be With Me", "I'm Still In Love With You", "Love and Happiness", and "Let's Stay Together"...
    
    
• "Hop, Skip & Jump"
  • "It's Time for Peace" by Hamilton Bohannon
    Hamilton Bohannon
    Hamilton Bohannon is an American percussionist, band leader and record producer, who was one of the leading figures in 1970s disco music...
    
    
  • "Save Their Souls" by Hamilton Bohannon
    Hamilton Bohannon
    Hamilton Bohannon is an American percussionist, band leader and record producer, who was one of the leading figures in 1970s disco music...
    
    
  • "All I Need Is You" by Starshine
• "(Pimp) Strut"
  • "Butterfly" by Herbie Hancock
    Herbie Hancock
    Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
    
    
  • "Give Me Your Love" by Curtis Mayfield
    Curtis Mayfield
    Curtis Lee Mayfield was an American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer.He is best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and for composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly, Mayfield is highly...
    
    
• "Glowing"
  • "Hold Tight" by Change
    Change (band)
    Change was an Italian-American post-disco group formed in Bologna, Italy in 1979 by businessman and executive producer Jacques Fred Petrus and Mauro Malavasi...
    
    
• "Smoking Room Only"
  • "Give Me Your Love" by Curtis Mayfield
    Curtis Mayfield
    Curtis Lee Mayfield was an American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer.He is best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and for composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly, Mayfield is highly...
    
    
• "Flying"
  • It's Time for Peace" by Hamilton Bohannon
    Hamilton Bohannon
    Hamilton Bohannon is an American percussionist, band leader and record producer, who was one of the leading figures in 1970s disco music...
    
    
• "Marching On"
  • "This Masquerade" by Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '77
    Sergio Mendes
    Sérgio Santos Mendes is a Brazilian musician. He has released over thirty-five albums, and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk....
    
    
• "Placebo"
  • "S.U.S." by Placebo
  • "Were Gonna Make it Big" by Baby Washington
    Justine Washington
    Justine "Baby" Washington is an American soul music vocalist.-Life and career:Washington was raised in Harlem, New York. In 1956, she joined the vocal group The Hearts, then became s a solo artist the following year. Washington had 16 rhythm and blues chart entries in 15 years, most of them during...
    
     & Don Gardner
    Don Gardner
    Don Gardner is an American rhythm and blues drummer and vocalist.Born in Philadelphia, Gardner had formed his own group, the Sonotones, in 1953, but teamed up with Dee Dee Ford in the early 1960s to have his biggest successes. Their biggest hit was "I Need Your Lovin'," a Top 20 hit in 1962...
    
    
• "Standard"
  • "When I'm Gone" by The Jones Girls
    The Jones Girls
    The Jones Girls were an R&B trio of sisters from Detroit, Michigan. They first recorded for GM Records in 1968, then recorded for Philadelphia International Records with Gamble & Huff.-History:...
    
    
• "Midnight and You"
  • "Winter Sadness" by Kool & the Gang
    Kool & the Gang
    Kool & the Gang are an American jazz, R&B, soul, and funk group, originally formed as the Jazziacs in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1964.They went through several musical phases during the course of their recording career, starting out with a purist jazz sound, then becoming practitioners of R&B and...
    
    
• "Fairground"
  • "E.V.A." by Jean-Jacques Perrey
    Jean-Jacques Perrey
    Jean-Jacques Perrey is a French electronic music producer and was an early pioneer in the genre. He is best known within the sphere of popular music as a member of the influential electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, and for his unusually light-hearted style of music.-Biography:Perrey was...
    
    
• "Hip 2 Hip"
  • "Never Stopped Loving You" by Tyrone Davis
    Tyrone Davis
    Tyrone Davis , born Tyrone Fettson, was a leading American soul singer with a distinctive style, recording a long list of hit records over a period of more than 20 years. He had three no...
    
    
  • "She's Strange" by Cameo
    Cameo (band)
    Cameo is an American soul-influenced funk group that formed in the early 1970s. Cameo was initially a 13-member group known as the New York City Players; this name was later changed to Cameo to avoid a lawsuit from Ohio Players, another group from that era. Since then, Cameo has recorded several...
    
    
• "U Are What U Are"
  • "Ain't That Loving You (For More Reasons Than One)" by Johnnie Taylor
    Johnnie Taylor
    Johnnie Harrison Taylor was an American vocalist in a wide variety of genres, from rhythm and blues, soul, blues and gospel to pop, doo-wop and disco.-Early years:...
    
    
  • "Get out of My Life, Woman" by Mad Lads