What is your favourite use of a sample on a rap record?

Question

Post a link to the track and the original too if you can.

Answer 1

Black Moon - Who Got The Props?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdGkz5pvp...

samples these two records

Tidal Wave - Ronnie Laws

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FDuZhknx...

Its a New Day - Skull Snaps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0_uMSd4x...

Its a New Day has been sampled countless times in hip hop. Def one of the best samples of all time.

Answer 2

Mobb Deep ft. Nina Sky and beat by Alchemist - Hold You Down

Answer 3

Omagus is right.... Apache, by the Shadows (pop cheese hanging with Cliff Cheesemeister Richards) was "remixed" if you will by Viner's Bongo rock crew and this became the first real deal hip hop break hidden on white label by Kool Herc (ed. Flash story) and the random use of it on made you look is very clever & alot of people would miss it. Props to that.

My favourite is obscure & used to be hidden. TROY - Peter Rock & CL Smooth..........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyk5Sb7AD...

Now in 1994 - breaks & samples were harder to find before Limewire & Youtube and the world exposion of hip hop that has now made sample comps easy to find. It took me 5 years to find this sample and then another 2 years to buy it. Tom Scott was a goofy white boy with a sax that started playing when he was 7. Recording at 8. The sample is Today which is a real hippie Cali track for the late 60s. great sax rift.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4iabt-il...

  

Answer 4

jon bovi  - it's my life

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=g50vzZzAja...

marracash - badabum cha cha

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=q9d3F3D8tM...

alex gaudino - destination calabria

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=QQpZdH6Zv7...

Answer 5

Definatly Girls Just Wanna Have Fun By Cam'ron Its One Of My Alll tym fave songs too x*x

Answer 6

I could name so many...but here are a few of my favorites:

"The Light" - Common

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbfjjnX4K...

"Open your Eyes" - Bobby Caldwell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT79j1LrI...

"California Love Remix" - Dr Dre/ 2Pac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo7G6QIJ4...

"Intimate Connections" - Kleeer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gi0TtfDG...

"Sky's The Limit" - Notorious B.I.G.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqny_i7z0...

"My Flame" - Boby Caldwell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hK6IgvZ0...



"Life's A Bit ch" - Nas ft. AZ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCnqDvvZr...

"Yearning For Your Love" - Gap Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMRJqM4_E...

"Escobar '97" - Nas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpVQQKYNU...

"Move Me No Mountains" - Love Unlimited Orchestra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXJVtqQrw...

Answer 7

Kanye West- Never Let Me Down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sHpHQTuZ...

It samples Maybe Its The Power of Love- Blackjack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9bSmZBI5...

Answer 8

Sunshine by twista was hot. The way the sample was used recaptured, rather than butchered an old classic's magic

Sunshine - Twista

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=ulCXdkD8_Q...

Lovely day - Bill withers

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=2DnUxLISFc...

Answer 9

Cannibal Ox - Pigeon (Produced by El-P)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYf5gRxzr...

Jaco Pastorius - Portrait of Tracy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBBG_2tPi...

Answer 10

One of my favourites

La the darkman - Love

No clue where the sample is from but its dope

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exC1cXzsf...

Answer 11

Dilla chopped and looped samples like no other.

Ex:

Slum Village - Players

Answer 12

One of my favorites

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-3-M9b7s...

Roy Ayers- Ain't Got Time

Listen to

0:35-0:39 seconds

0:53-0:57 seconds

A good example of when that sample was used is this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dmfWIepl...

Jay-Dee used it on Blackstar- Little Brother

but i've heard that sample used about 5 other times

btw this is how some guy recreated Players

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M9nXk_Ya...

First the song^

Then the sample V

around 2 and a half minutes he shows what Jay-Dee did to the sample,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh3Si9V1l...

they say clarie, not players, but the way Jay-Dee made it sound and the way the keep saying players, it makes it sound like they're saying players

Answer 13

These are a few of my favorites:

Song: "Watch Me" - Little Brother

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWEU87xkF...

Sample: "With A Child's Heart" - Jackson 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmrxz33zp...

Song: "Mr. Dream Merchant" - 9th Wonder feat. Rapper Big Pooh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twk7MVxax...

Sample: "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" - The Four Tops

http://www.zavvi.co.uk/music-R_and_b-or-...

Song: "Stakes Is High" - De La Soul

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpFAUKQgd...

Sample: "Swahililand" - Ahmad Jamal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laskO1WqN...

Song: "The World Is Yours" - Nas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7CzXe0ub...

Sample: "I Love Music" - Ahmad Jamal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPxJBwzRd...

Answer 14

"Apache" is my favorite break of all time.  I always like hearing songs that use it.  But I was really impressed with the way Salaam Remi re-imagined the way it could be sampled on "Made You Look" by Nas.

"Apache"

http://www.imeem.com/rockitt/music/Rsy5L...

"Made You Look"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gWD4g63R...

Answer 15

I love anything by Primo (or at least most things).. he was the sampling king. Here is a classic example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U76Nde6rM...

Answer 16

Eric B. & Rakim "Don't Sweat The Technique"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM5fNP-hr...

Not sure what song the break beat is sampled from though.

Answer 17

Smooth Operator- BDK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eTa1C516...

sampled: All Night Long-Mary Jane Girls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2gyAEWVM...