Sample Snitch-Drake’s Secret Weapon by Dan-O Hypothetical scenario: you step into my sight with a twelve gauge pump action Mossberg shotgun and tell me I have five seconds to name the best Drake song; doesn’t take me three. The answer is Jungle from If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late. I have heard everything he has done and haven’t heard anythingContinue reading “Sample Snitch-Drake’s Secret Weapon”
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Sample Snitch: The exciting G Funk perfection of All Eyez On Me
Sample Snitch: The exciting G Funk perfection of All Eyez On Me by Dan-O All Eyez On Me is the best double album in the history of hip hop. That is not a hot take. If you listen very carefully it is not the dark foreboding cryptic record Makaveli is perceived to be. It isContinue reading “Sample Snitch: The exciting G Funk perfection of All Eyez On Me”
Sample Snitch-Chaka Khan, Simply Red, 8ball, & MJG
Sample Snitch-Chaka Khan, Simply Red, 8ball, & MJG by Dan-O So UGK dropped their first album Too Hard To Swallow in 1992 stacked with old soul samples. The sample listing includes Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withers, and the Isley Brothers. I’ve already written a previous Sample Snitch about the Isley connection with UGK. A year laterContinue reading “Sample Snitch-Chaka Khan, Simply Red, 8ball, & MJG”
#SampleSnitch-You are Who You Sample: Isley Brothers to UGK
#SampleSnitch-You are who you sample: Isley Brothers to UGK by Dan-O If a rapper who produces is selecting the same artist to sample over the course of their career you start to see the connection. The latest example is Kanye West and Nina Simone (http://www.vinylmeplease.com/magazine/kanye-west-sings-blues/ great in depth article on that) the two share that kindContinue reading “#SampleSnitch-You are Who You Sample: Isley Brothers to UGK”
Sample Snitch-I Choose You and the Willie Hutch effect on hip hop
Sample Snitch-I Choose You and the Willie Hutch effect on hip hop by Willie Hutch The chorus for I Choose You has been lifted by countless rap icons from Project Pat, Wiz Khalifa and most famously UGK on Int’l Playaz Anthem (I Choose You) featuring Outkast. Willie Hutch infused his music with qualities that notContinue reading “Sample Snitch-I Choose You and the Willie Hutch effect on hip hop”
Sample Snitch-Rick Ross, Scarface, Ice Cube, The Stylistics and Thom Bell—hip hop’s relationship to the song People Make The World Go Round
Sample Snitch-Rick Ross, Scarface, Ice Cube, The Stylistics and Thom Bell—hip hop’s relationship to the song People Make The World Go Round By Dan-O The name you need to know is Thom Bell. Philadelphia Soul is known for its grand production, the downside being major name producers treated the singers as dispensable. The notion becameContinue reading “Sample Snitch-Rick Ross, Scarface, Ice Cube, The Stylistics and Thom Bell—hip hop’s relationship to the song People Make The World Go Round”
Sample Snitch-The Look of Love by Isaac Hayes: connecting Jay-z & Irv Gotti to Burt Bacharach
Sample Snitch-The Look of Love by Isaac Hayes: connecting Jay-z & Irv Gotti to Burt Bacharach by Dan-O Isaac Hayes is a goldmine if you get over how weird the situation is. This is the guy who wrote nearly all the important Stax records radio hits but nearly all of his important solo tracks areContinue reading “Sample Snitch-The Look of Love by Isaac Hayes: connecting Jay-z & Irv Gotti to Burt Bacharach”
Sample Snitch: The connection between Jimmy Cagney and E-40 (Back in Business 2010/White Heat 1949)
Sample Snitch: The connection between Jimmy Cagney and E-40 (Back in Business 2010/White Heat 1949) by Dan-O The movie White Heat from 1949 is a defining moment in film noir. The main character, Arthur “Cody” Jarrett is not only a robber but suffers from headaches he started faking as a kid to get his mothersContinue reading “Sample Snitch: The connection between Jimmy Cagney and E-40 (Back in Business 2010/White Heat 1949)”
Sample Snitch: Kanye West-Power/King Crimson-21st Century Schizoid Man
Sample Snitch: Kanye West-Power/King Crimson-21st Century Schizoid Man by Dan-O We all know that hip hop has pillaged the catalog of Parliament Funkadelic, James Brown, The Isley Brothers and countless other soul/R&B acts. That’s how most of us learn about sampling. Someone plays The Isley Brothers song Between The Sheets and you stop cold likeContinue reading “Sample Snitch: Kanye West-Power/King Crimson-21st Century Schizoid Man”
