Stereofox
  • SONGS
  • ARTISTS
  • LABELS
  • PLAYLISTS & MIXES
  • ARTICLES
    • Interviews
    • Album Reviews
  • ABOUT
  • CONTACT
  • SHOP
Login

Sign in using

Spotify Facebook Twitter
Picture of Like It Was Pablo Eskobear  at Stereofox
Instrumental Hip Hop Songs Soul

Like It Was
Pablo Eskobear

Buy on iTunes
Stereofox author Ivo
22nd October , 2020

This Pablo Eskobear is the reason why we created our Groovy Beats playlists. "Like It Was" is that soul-driven power beat to put a smile on your face each morning.

The US producer stirs up tasty pots of boom bap hip hop with spicy funk/soul samples. A self taught drummer from the age of 12, the groovy beat-maker just dropped his debut album Regurgitated Rhythms - a collection of feel-good productions that pay homage to old school funk and soul music. One thing I also want to shed the light on is the actual name. I had a good amount of laugh reading Pablo Eskobear the first time he popped in my feed, so... here's the back story.

On 12/23/1985, the NY Times reported about a 175-pound black bear that had died of an overdose of cocaine in Georgia’s Chattahoochee National Forest. 3 months earlier, drug smuggler Andrew Thornton II had dropped large quantities of drugs from an airplane over that area, before jumping from it himself. Unfortunately, Thornton got tangled in his parachute and fell to his death in someone’s yard, in Knoxville, TN. He was on a coke-smuggling run from Colombia when he dropped 40 plastic containers full of cocaine in the National Forest.

But instead of cocaine worth tens of millions of dollars, police found just 40 open containers with traces of cocaine in them, and a dead black bear. The animal had feasted on the entire load and subsequently died of an overdose. Its stomach was literally packed to the brim with cocaine. There isn’t a mammal on the planet that could survive that. The bear had cerebral hemorrhaging, respiratory failure, hyperthermia, renal failure, heart failure, stroke. You name it, that bear had it. The Cocaine Bear, later nicknamed Pablo Eskobear was then gifted to the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, where it was displayed in the visitor center, behind a plaque, without any mention of his special origin

Share Tweet
Alex Ungku – I Miss You, Still
You might like:
TiKA – Sideways
Yasmine Gill - Woman
Glenn Astro - Deep (ft. Hulk Hodn, AGGi)
Amani Lia - Tit 4 Tat

StereoMerch

Stay up to date.
New music in your inbox every week.

* indicates required
toy story clouds
coldbrew
0:00 - 0:00
Genres
  • All
  • Electronic
  • Indie
  • Rock
  • Hip Hop
  • Funk
  • Soul
  • Jazz
  • R&B
  • Beats
  • Blues
My Favorites Moods
  • Chill
  • Groovy
  • Relax
  • Sexy
  • Party
  • Upbeat
  • Mellow
toy story clouds
coldbrew
All The Time
Suiix
Pipeline
Worakls
Closer - Short Cut
Bjørk Stellar (ft. Marc Werner)
20/20
Midnight.Blue, Midnight.Blue (ft. G. Finesse, G. Finesse)
Cosmic Dust
(ft. ØDYSSEE)
my eyes are open
Monea'
After Hours
Poldoore
Deeper
BLOODMOON
Want It Bad
Cowboy Malfoy
Warm (Jabair Dub)
Suzanne Sheer (ft. Jabair)
Pay My Debts
Beacon
In Your Heart
Aselec
Exomoon
RINZ.
Mango Feedback
Four Tet
Flower Burst
Giants' Nest
Tall Tales
Kennebec (ft. Hemlock Ernst, Sudan Archives)
back again.
Hamper
Wound Up
Ryan Helsing
Do You Wanna Live Like That
James Chatburn, James Chatburn (ft. Noah Slee, Noah Slee)
Avocados
King Monday
Young Minds
Dan Whitlam, Dan Whitlam
What Moves Me
Alexander IV
Aura
Zuso
Pure Intoxication
Younique, Younique (ft. r.em.edy, r.em.edy)
X