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This is the first song off of It Takes A Nation...
The title track off of their debut album "Yo! Bum Rush the Show"
This classic is the most sampled song off "It Takes A Nation..." being sampled a staggering 770 times!
This song has been sampled 69 times over the years. Marva Whitney (born Marva Ann Manning, May 1, 1944 – December 22, 2012), was an American funk singer commonly referred to by her honorary title, Soul Sister #1. Whitney was considered by many funk enthusiasts to be one of the "rawest" and "brassiest" music divas. Whitney's first chart hit came with "It's My Thing (You Can't Tell Me Who to Sock It To)," a response to The Isley Brothers' hit "It's Your Thing"; her record reached number 19 on the Billboard R&B chart and number 82 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969.
This song is a classic and has been sampled numerous times other places.The piece takes the form of an extended vamp, with individual instruments (mostly the guitar, tenor saxophones and organ) improvising brief licks on top. Brown's ad-libbed vocals on "Funky Drummer" are sporadic and declamatory, and are mostly concerned with encouraging the other band members.
"Get Off Your Ass and Jam" is a song by Funkadelic, track number 6 to their 1975 album Let's Take It to the Stage. It was written by George Clinton.
"Get Up, Get into It, Get Involved" is a funk song recorded by James Brown. It was released as a two-part single in 1970 and charted #4 R&B and #34 Pop. It features backing vocals by Bobby Byrd, who shared writing credit for the song with Brown and Ron Lenhoff.
Off of the classic HipHop film "Wild Style". Unknown to most Grand Wizzard Theodore invented scratching while you DJ!
Yes, it's that Jesse Jackson. The Reverend Jesse Jackson. This amazing song has been sampled in 147 songs. The sample appears in "Bring the Noise" 2-seconds in.
The original "Give It Up or Turnit a Loose" is a funk song recorded by James Brown. Released as a single in 1969, the song was a #1 R&B hit and also made the top 20 pop singles chart. "Give It Up or Turnit a Loose" appeared as an instrumental on the Ain't It Funky album, removing Brown's vocals and adding guitar overdubs, while the vocal version was released onto Soul Classics.
And among other people playing on this track in the James Brown Orchestra, the amazing Maceo Parker is on tenor sax and Nate Jones, not Clyde Stubblefield, plays drums.
This sample appears at the 4:08 mark, and appears in "Bring The Noise" at the 2:45 mark to the end. The very first song off of their 1974 album "Machine Gun". The song itself "The Assembly Line" is a socially charged song concerning the challenges faced by those who try to make a difference in society.
The second single to be released from their second album "It Takes A Nation..." The song's lyrics are mostly about the political issues that were current in the United States at the time of its release. "Don't Believe the Hype" charted at number 18 on the U.S. R&B chart and also reached a high of 18 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1988. Chuck D has stated the song was inspired by the works of Noam Chomsky. This song samples a total of 7 songs.
"Synthetic Substitution" is a song by Melvin Bliss that was released in 1973. Originally starting life as a throwaway B-Side, with a song called "Reward" as the A-Side, the song failed to chart anywhere on its initial release because of the collapse of Opal Productions, the parent company of Sunburst Records.
The song is a scathing critique of what society would be like if it was entirely computerized, which towards the end of the song features the wailing of Bliss clinging onto the final few authentic remnants of his daily life. In 1986 the song's drums, provided by Bernard Purdie - were sampled in "Ego Trippin'" by Ultramagnetic MCs, spawning numerous other uses. It has since been sampled in over 94 songs, with WhoSampled.com claiming that number is 715.
"Escape-ism" is a funk song by James Brown. It was Brown's first release on his own label, People Records. It charted #6 R&B and #25 Pop as a two-part single in 1971.
"I Got Ants in My Pants (and I Want to Dance)" by James Brown. It was recorded in 1971 and released as a two-part single in November 1972[1] or January 1973 depending on who you ask, and it charted #4 R&B and #27 Pop.
The sample appears in "Don't Believe The Hype" at 0:10 and starts at the 0:26 mark from the original.
This song has been sampled in 43 songs by the likes of Schoolly D, Chubb Rock, Cyprus Hill and many more.
General Mills introduced Trix in 1954 as a sugar-coated version of its popular cereal, Kix. The original Trix cereal was composed of more than 46% sugar and included three colors: "Orangey Orange", "Lemony Yellow", and "Raspberry Red". Five fruit shapes and colors were added over the years: including "Grapity Purple", (1984).
The trademark animated Trix rabbit, debuted in a 1959 television commercial.
Tricks, the Trix Rabbit — voiced by Mort Marshall for those who don't know, was a cartoon rabbit who continually attempts to trick children into giving him a bowl of cereal. He was discovered every time; and the kids would always reprimand him with the signature phrase “Silly rabbit! Trix are for kids!”.
The plight of Tricks has drawn comparisons to (SIS-UH-FISS) Sisyphus, a Greek figure who was doomed to endlessly repeat a futile task
Back in Black is the third album by American hip hop group Whodini. It was recorded in London and released via Jive Records in 1986. This is the 6th track off of that project. The sample appears at 0:50 in "Don't Believe The Hype" and its from the 0:01 mark from the original.
This is the B side from their 1976 7 inch "Feel Like Good Music / Catch A Groove". This sample appears in "Don't Believe The Hype" from 0:01 to the end. It's appears in "Catch A Groove" at the 1:54 mark.
This is on of the many live performances from the incredible WattStax concert that took place in 1972. Wattstax was a benefit concert organized by Stax Records to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1965 riots in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles. The concert took place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on August 20, 1972. The concert's performers included all of Stax's prominent artists at the time.
This is the first track off of "It Takes a Nation..." to feature just Flavor Flav rapping. William Jonathan Drayton Jr. (born March 16, 1959), better known by his stage name Flavor Flav was born in Roosevelt, New York and grew up in nearby Freeport, two black communities each within the Town of Hempstead, New York.
He taught himself to play the piano, and began playing at the age of five years old. A musical prodigy, he sang in the youth choir at his church and mastered the piano, drums, and guitar at an early age. According to Chuck D, he is proficient in fifteen instruments.
He attended Adelphi University on Long Island where he met Chuck D.
Flavor Flav took his stage name after his graffiti tag. They first collaborated on Chuck D's hip-hop college radio show, then began rapping together.
Flavor Flav went to culinary school in 1978.
This is 9th track to appear on their fifth album Off the Record. It was recorded at Audio International Studios in London between October 1976 and January 1977.
"Jungle Fever" is a 1971 track performed by Belgian producers The Chakachas, written by head producer Roland Kluger (as Bill Ador) and first issued in Belgium by Swineyard, an independent. The song reached #8 in the 1972 United States Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at #29 in the United Kingdom. "Jungle Fever" was banned by the BBC, who took exception to the song's heavy breathing and moaning. The song was a greater success in America, selling over one million copies and being awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in March 1972. Billboard ranked it as the No. 51 song for 1972.
"Gimme Some More" is a 1971 song written by James Brown and recorded by his band, The J.B.'s. Released as a single on People Records, it chartedNo. 11 R&B and No. 67 Pop. Its lyrics consist solely of the song title, chanted by the whole band throughout the record. "Gimme Some More" also appeared on the 1972 album Food for Thought.
The J.B.'s were formed in March 1970 after most of the members of Brown's previous band walked out on him over a pay dispute. (Brown's previous bands of the 1950s and 1960s had been known as The James Brown Band and The James Brown Orchestra.)
The J.B.'s initial lineup included bassist William "Bootsy" Collins and his guitarist brother Phelps "Catfish" Collins, formerly of the obscure funk band The Pacemakers; Bobby Byrd (founder of the original Famous Flames singing group) (organ), and John "Jabo" Starks (drums), both holdovers from Brown's 60s band;
This version of the J.B.'s played on some of Brown's most intense funk recordings, including "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine", "Super Bad", "Soul Power", and "Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing". They also accompanied Brown on a European tour (during which they recorded the long-delayed live album Love Power Peace), performed on the Sex Machine double LP, and released two instrumental singles, the much-sampled "The Grunt" and "These Are the J.B.'s".
Sir Juice, aka Mr. Magic, passed away in 2009 after suffering a heart attack. Not only was Magic the first rap DJ to have an exclusive rap show on commercial radio on WBLS in New York City but his often brutal honesty (aka breaking their vinyl live on air!) would inspire Boogie Down Productions to record ‘South Bronx’ and ‘The Bridge Is Over’ – thus sparking the legendary ‘Bridge Wars’ – while he was equally vocal about his disapproval of an early Public Enemy track, with his “No more music by the suckers!” declaration being sampled for It Takes A Nation of Millions… album. With a career as a radio personality spanning twenty years, he later hosted a show on Hot 97 with Mister Cee from 1992 to 2002.
"I Know You Got Soul" is a song recorded by Bobby Byrd with James Brown's band The J.B.'s. It has been sampled 147 times throughout music history.
The recording was produced by Brown and released as a single in 1971. It reached #30 on the Billboard R&B chart. It was prominently sampled on the 1987 song of the same name by Eric B. & Rakim.The "you got it" is referenced in Static and the song's remix.
"I Know You Got Soul" appeared on the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas soundtrack on the Master Sounds 98.3 station.
Double Dee and Steinski is a duo of hip hop producers, composed of Doug "Double Dee" DiFranco and Steven "Steinski" Stein. They achieved notoriety in the early 1980s for a series of underground hip-hop sample-based collages known as the "Lessons".
In 1983, Tommy Boy Records held a promotional contest, in which entrants were asked to remix the single "Play That Beat, Mr. D.J." by G.L.O.B.E. and Whiz Kid. By day, DiFranco worked in a professional music studio, while Stein was a copy supervisor. Although the two were older (27 and 31, respectively) than most of their peers in the hip-hop community, they were both enthusiasts of the genre; Stein, in particular, had been attending downtown rap clubs for years and had an extensive knowledge of hip-hop's history.
Their contest entry, "Lesson 1 – The Payoff Mix", was packed with sampled appropriations from other records—not only from early hip-hop records and from Funk and Disco records that were popular with hip-hop DJs, but with short snippets of older songs by Little Richard and The Supremes, along with vocal samples from sources as diverse as instructional tap-dancing records and Humphrey Bogart films.
The record was pieced together in DiFranco's studio in 12-14 hours over two days and was critically praised.[3] The jury, which included Afrika Bambaataa, Shep Pettibone, and "Jellybean" Benitez awarded "Lesson 1" the first prize.
"Girls" was released in 1987 as well as the music video as the seventh and final single from their debut album Licensed to Ill. This song was never performed live and it is one of the few songs on the album that are not in the vein of their standard rap songs.Lyrically, the song talks about the narrator (Ad-Rock)'s desire for women. He recalls an experience from two years before with a woman who had an interest in the narrator's band mate MCA. MCA did not share her feelings and permitted the narrator to pursue her romantically. Ad-Rock takes the woman for a walk near a body of water and asks her out but rejects his proposal. She moves to a far away location but in the present day the narrator sees her back in town showing interest in his other band mate, Mike D.
From their debut album. This performance was recorded live in August 5th, 1983. This record is so iconic it has been sampled roughly 700 times! The sample appears in "Cold Lampin with Flavor" at 1:10 and is from the 0:05 mark from the original.
"War" is a counterculture-era soul song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for the Motown label in 1969.
Whitfield first produced the song – an obvious anti-Vietnam War protest – with The Temptations as the original vocalists. After Motown began receiving repeated requests to release "War" as a single, Whitfield re-recorded the song with Edwin Starr as the vocalist, with the label deciding to withhold the Temptations' version from single release so as not to alienate their more conservative fans. Starr's version of "War" was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1970, and is not only the most successful and well-known record of his career, but it is also one of the most popular protest songs ever recorded. It was one of 161 songs on the Clear Channel no-play list after September 11, 2001.
"Think (About It)" by Lyn Collins was released as a single on James Brown's People Records in 1972. The recording was produced by Brown (who also wrote the song) and features instrumental backing from his band The J.B.'s. It was the title track of Collins' 1972 debut album. The song is very popular for its raw drumbeat dressed with tambourine and multiple background vocals, which suggest the song was recorded altogether in one take. It peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Best Selling Soul Singles chart and No. 66 on the Hot 100.
Along with "Funky Drummer" and "Funky President", "Think (About It)" is one of the most frequently sampled James Brown productions, having been used on tracks. The song appeared on the 16th volume of the Ultimate Breaks and Beats compilation series in 1986, shortly before the release of the E-mu SP-1200 sampler in 1987.
This is the 4th song off of "It Takes A Nation..." It contains 6 samples ranging from Queen to James Brown. Norman Rogers (born August 25, 1966), known as Terminator X, is a retired American DJ best known for his work with hip-hop group Public Enemy, which he left in 1999. He also produced two solo albums, Terminator X & The Valley of the Jeep Beets (1991) and Super Bad (1994), featuring Chuck D, Sister Souljah, DJ Kool Herc, the Cold Crush Brothers, and a bass music track by the Punk Barbarians. In 2013, Terminator X was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Public Enemy.
"Flash" is a song by Queen for the1980 film Flash Gordon released in the UK on November 24th 1980 and on December 8th in the US.
Flash is sung as a duet between Freddie Mercury and Brian May, with Roger Taylor adding the high harmonies. May used a type of piano with 97 keys instead of 88, having an extra octave on the low range.
On the U.S. charts, "Flash's Theme aka Flash" reached #42 on the Billboard Hot 100. It peaked at #39 on the Cash Box Top 100. It fared much better in Europe, where it was a Top 10 hit in most nations, including #1 in Austria.
The Grunt" is a funk instrumental recorded in 1970 by James Brown's band The J.B.'s. It was released as a two-part single on King. It was one of only two instrumental singles recorded by the original J.B.'s lineup with Bootsy Collins and Catfish Collins.
It's been sampled in 209 songs including three different tracks on Public Enemy's album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back loop portions of the recording. Rebel Without A Pause, Night of the Living Baseheads, and Terminator X to the Edge of Panic.
Other artists who have sampled "The Grunt" include Eric B. and Rakim, Jungle Brothers, Wu-Tang Clan, and many more.
This was actually the B side to their 7". The A Side being "The New Rap Language". Spoony G, aka Gabriel Jackson was born in Harlem, New York City, receiving his 'Spoonie' nickname as a child because the spoon was the only utensil that he used to eat with. His mother died when he was twelve years old, and he went to live with his uncle, the record producer Bobby Robinson (Gladys Knight & The Pips, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Doug E. Fresh, etc.), in whose apartment he began to practice rapping.
Spoonie Gee has been described as "the original gangster rapper".
He then recorded for Robinson's Enjoy! Records, his first release for the label being the similarly minimalistic "Love Rap" (on which he was accompanied on Congas by his brother Pooche Costello), issued on the B-side of the Treacherous Three's "New Rap Language" (on which he also featured), leading to his early nickname of 'The Love Rapper'.
Spoony was a founding member of the Treacherous Three, along with L.A. Sunshine and Kool Moe Dee. The group added Special K as a member when Jackson left to record his first single.
In 2008, "Love Rap" was ranked number 65 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.
"Get Up, Get into It, Get Involved" is a funk song recorded by James Brown. It was released as a two-part single in 1970 and charted #4 R&B and #34 Pop.[1] It features backing vocals by Bobby Byrd, who shared writing credit for the song with Brown and Ron Lenhoff. It first received an album release on In the Jungle Groove (1986).
Live performances of the song appear on the albums Revolution of the Mind (1971) and Love Power Peace (1992; recorded 1971).
This song is also on the "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" Big Audio Dynamite (later known as Big Audio Dynamite II and Big Audio, and often abbreviated BAD) are a British musical group formed in 1984 by the ex-guitarist and singer of The Clash, Mick Jones. The group is noted for its effective mixture of varied musical styles, incorporating elements of punk rock, dance music, hip hop, reggae, and funk. BAD's one constant throughout frequent shifts in membership and musical direction is the vocals provided by Mick Jones.
This is a live clip from their 1987 London tour "It Takes a Nation the First London Invasion Tour"
This is the second time they have sampled THEMSELVES! From their debut album "Yo! Bum rush the show"
Gangsta rap was the controversial music of the late Eighties, but Public Enemy were creating waves of its own. “That song was simply about the fact that the FBI was tapping my phone,” Chuck D says of “Louder Than a Bomb.” “My phone would go dead between one and two o’clock in the morning every night, even when I got the phone people to fix it. I was saying, ‘I’m not keeping any secrets because everything I’m saying, I’m saying on the record.’” Even though this was one of Chuck’s favorite PE songs, it’s never been performed live.
Khalis: [Laughs] You wanna tell it?
Kool: You start.
Khalis: OK, we'll tell it together. We were rehearsing in this daycare center and and somebody came in and planted some. . .paraphernalia in a couch. We didn't know that. We got set up, in other words. So this police officer comes in.
Kool: Like Starsky and Hutch, there's this officer and his partner.
Khalis: So we're rehearsing 'cause we had a show that night in Hackensack. They come in, stick their hands in the couch and say, "Heyyyy! What's this?" [Both laugh]. "What's going on?!" And he says, "OK, which one of you guys are gonna take the weight for this?" It wasn't no coke. It was doogie.
Kool: That's what they used to call heroin on the street back then: doogie.
Khalis: Anyway, all three of us had to go to jail for a night, and in the jail we all said, "Well, OK, we missed a show behind this, so we wrote a song about it, wanna hear it? Here ya go."
Kool: They threw the case out.
Khalis: We got set up! Luckily, it was just the one time that happened. The intro to "Who's Gonna Take the Weight" is [saxophonist] Dennis [Thomas]. At the time, we were all searching for spirituality and stuff like that, so D.T. is the one who came up with that announcement on the song.
Mountain Live: The Road Goes Ever On is the fourth album by hard rock band Mountain. Released following the band's first breakup in 1972, Windfall Records compiled the album using old live material. Mountain would later reform in 1974. The title comes from J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit.
The opening drum break on "Long Red" has been sampled by hip hop artists.