Here is the sample used in the song provided by the great Les McCann:

And here is the great song, that uses the above sample, by the incomparable Massive Attack (who introduced me to the great Tricky):

Class dismissed…

Da Professor

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1. one of the most sampled jazz songs in history, of which all of the following songs have sampled in some way.

2. a song from a group of hardcore punks from New York who decided to dabble in hip hop and ended up influencing, among others, a bunch of guys from Compton with attitude.

3. a song from an Adidas loving Hollis trio who were the second hip hop group ever to be indicted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

4. a song from a Jamaican-Canadian DJ and a Haitian-born, Brooklyn-based rapper, the latter who left the group after the album this song is from to enlist in the United States Air Force. Their song was sampled for Snap’s – The Power. So a sample is sampled.

5. a song from a Japanese-American producer who counts among his friends, Mike Patton, a crazy doctor whose last name is a shape or something, some monkeys, and a DJ who likes to stay in the shadow and likes samples himself.  this producer even has a modeling school for handsome boys.

6. a song by a group of girls named tionne, rozonda and lisa who made the only album by a female group to be awarded diamond certification by the RIAA.

7. a song by a once menacing looking fellow who is named after frozen water and who used to hang out with the Compton fellows mentioned in the description of song #2.

8. a song from a Japanese pop group credited with  spearheading the shibuya-kei movement of Tokyo.

9. a song which helped popularize the slang term “badonkadonk”.

10. a song from an artist who recorded the first gospel music album to sell over a million units.

11. a song by an artist who studied biomedical engineering in school and quit his job working on tissue engineering to focus solely on music.

12. as a bonus, here is the song that the artist from #1 covered. So the sample so widely used is actually a cover?!

Class dismissed…
Da Professor

Bill Conti – Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky)

sampled in the song Injeção by Deize Tigrona

which was the basis for the song Bucky Done Gun by M.I.A.

So until next time…class dismissed.

Da Professor

Isaac Hayes – Hung Up On My Baby

Geto Boys – Mind Playing Tricks On Me

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