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A legendary original! Released in 1973 - Brown's landmark funk album, and his only to be certified gold, "The Payback" was originally slated to be the soundtrack for blaxploitation film "Hell Up in Harlem." The film's producers, however, rejected it, calling it "the same old James Brown stuff."
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De La Soul sample "the same old James Brown stuff" in their 1996 "Stakes Is High" track.
De La Soul's first album produced without Prince Paul, 'Stakes Is High' was mainly produced by the group themselves with additional tracks provided by Jay Dee, DJ Ogee, Spearhead X and Skeff Anslem. This track was co-produced with J Dilla.
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Blood Orange samples De La Soul "Stakes Is High" on the track "Thank You" from 2016's ‘Freetown Sound”.
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1963 original!
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Produced by J Dilla, this 1995 Pharcyde track samples Stan Getz's 1963 bossa nova hit "Saudade Vem Correndo" featuring vocalist Maria Toledo as well as "Rock Box" by Run-D.M.C.
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Sampled The Pharcyde's "Runnin'".
The Roots seventh album, first on Def Jam, was recorded mostly using Apple's GarageBand app.
1970 original!
See Mayfield sing it:
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Samples Curtis Mayfield's 1970 "The Makings of You".
Everything is Recorded is the project of XL Recordings co-founder Richard Russell. Sampha, featured on this track, is also an XL Recordings artist.
Check out the music video for this song: youtu.be
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Lauryn Hill's 1998 "Ex-Factor" samples Wu-Tang's 1993 "Can It Be So Simple" which samples Gladys Knight's 1974 live Detroit performance of "The Way We Were". This version is one of Nashville-born, Croatia-based conceptual collaboration artist Amerigo Gazaway's brilliant mashups.
Watch the Gladys Knight performance that inspired this chain of re-imagining:
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Nicole Bus revisits the Wu-Tang Clan on her 2019 You (Remix).
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Nina Simone's 1978 reggae-styled treatment of Randy Newman’s frequently covered song, "Baltimore".
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.JAY-Z's 2017 track "Caught Their Eyes" samples Nina Simone's 1978 track "Baltimore" (covering Randy Newman's 1977 song "Baltimore" . . . it's all connected . . .)
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From his sophomore release, Shad's "Brother (Watching)" samples The Isley Brothers 1972 classic "Brother, Brother".
Check out the official video, directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly, the ambitious video was shot in just one take.
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The original! The Isley Brothers 1972 classic "Brother, Brother" from the album 'Brother, Brother'.
The history of The Isley Brothers - their influence and leagcy:
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Roy Ayres said, "It was a beautiful, hot, sunny day and I just got this phrase in my head: “Everybody loves the sunshine.” I started singing: “Feel what I feel, when I feel what I feel, what I’m feeling.” Then I started thinking about summer imagery: “Folks get down in the sunshine, folks get brown in the sunshine, just bees and things and flowers.”
Read about the making of this song which has been widely sampled, from Dr. Dre to Pharrell Williams.
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Mary J. Blige was one of the artists who sampled Roy Ayres 1993 "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" - in her 1994 song "My Life"!
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