DE LA SOUL - ME, MYSELF AND I (1989)

SAMPLES USED:

EDWIN BIRDS - RAPPER DAPPER SNAPPER (1980)

FUNKADELIC - (NOT JUST) KNEE DEEP (1979)

& OTHERS:

OHIO PLAYERS - FUNKY WORM (1973)

DOUG E. FRESH - THE ORIGINAL HUMAN BEATBOX (1985)

LOOSE ENDS - GONNA MAKE YOU MINE (1986)

A TRIBE CALLED QUEST - ELECTRIC RELAXATION (1994)

 Good funk.

ORIGINAL SAMPLE FROM RONNIE FOSTER - MYSTIC BREW (1972) 

 

KANYE WEST - TOUCH THE SKY (MTV VERSION) FT. LUPE FIASCO (2006)

”Touch The Sky“ was actually very… You know, the funny thing is as popular as ”Move On Up“ by Curtis Mayfield is I’d never heard that song before and so I think I found a CD in my house or something, I had a greatest hits and I just threw it on, threw it on my iTunes and I heard that and I was like: “What’s this?” And I’d heard every other song on that CD before but I had never heard that one. Now, had I heard it and knew how popular it was, I probably wouldn’t have touched it. But I did it, I did the record, Kanye came… I did that record in about 20 minutes before Kanye got to the studio, or did the beat anyway. He took it, did it and when it came down to getting it cleared, clearing it was actually very easy, about sample clearances.

- Just Blaze for RBMA, 2006.
 Justin Smith the First: taming rappers' egos since '99. Session transcript Melbourne 2006, [Online].

ORIGINAL SAMPLE TAKEN FROM CURTIS MAYFIELD - MOVE ON UP (1970) 

 



Available at: http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/just-blaze--show-me-what-you-got?template=RBMA_Lecture%2Ftranscript 

JAY-Z - SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT

"To me, the funny thing about that record is the Public Enemy, the whole Public Enemy thing wasn’t even intentional. What happened was Jay had the record and he’s in one room and he’s got this hook called ”Show Me What You Got.“ I’m in the other room and I’m messing with the horns from ”Darkest Light,“ which P.E. used for ”Show ‘Em What Ya Got” on [It Takes] A Nation of Millions [To Hold Us Back]. I didn’t know what he was thinking, he didn’t know what I was thinking. So when I walked in the room and he’s sitting there doing the, you know: (sings) “Show me what ya got / Show me what ya got,” and I’m like: “Wait a minute.” I’m in the other room with the horns, so I was like: “Alright, this is something that has to be.”

- Just Blaze for RBMA, 2006.
 Justin Smith the First: taming rappers' egos since '99. Session transcript Melbourne 2006, [Online].

Available at: 
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/just-blaze--show-me-what-you-got?template=RBMA_Lecture%2Ftranscript