I always liked this song and the "Do Me Baby" sample rules! Anybody else like this one?

Yeah, I love it. I still ride 2 that track.

charmz33 said:

Yeah, I love it. I still ride 2 that track.

McHammer - Pray

I heard Lil' Troy's "Wanna Be a Baller" on the radio yesterday and totally forgot it was a Prince sample. Is it the best? I don't think so. I prefer "Pray," "2 Live and Die in LA," or "Hearts of Men."

Best Prince sample to me will always be the "Let's Go Crazy" guitar in "Brothers Gonna Work It Out" by Public Enemy.

dustoff said:

Best Prince sample to me will always be the "Let's Go Crazy" guitar in "Brothers Gonna Work It Out" by Public Enemy.

The Bomb Squad and Public Enemy did wonders with guitar samples. The Prince sample on Brothers and the Slayer sample on She Watch Channel Zero...Classic !

You guys must have never heard Rapper Big Pooh's The Purple Tape. That has some dope uses of Prince samples on it......

Angelic1302 said:

McHammer - Pray

that was terrible

It's not a sample.

rdhull said:

Angelic1302 said:

McHammer - Pray

that was terrible

I like the beat of it, Hammer's flow sux on it, though.

check out ragga twins "hooligan 69" which uses the intro of let's go crazy. that track tore the dancefloors up in the uk. i'm guessing that prince's lawyers got onto it as the version that appears on their greatest hits collection is sample free.

junglist posse, wagwan? hear me now.....irie.

robertgeorgeakabob said:

check out ragga twins "hooligan 69" which uses the intro of let's go crazy. that track tore the dancefloors up in the uk. i'm guessing that prince's lawyers got onto it as the version that appears on their greatest hits collection is sample free.

junglist posse, wagwan? hear me now.....irie.

... I swear you've cracked my lappy. I was gonna post it but thought the snip snips would have it out. Blinding tune back then. "Now all who wants to jump up, jump up". I don't know how I survived those days. There wouldn't be much jumpin up nowadays I know that much, plenty of spreading out maybe.

Kill the bleedin junglists, I can't be doin with all that bidness. Bloody whipper-snappers. Get some Warp down ya, early Aphex or The Black Dog or summin.

Shit, takes me back, Bleedin Rat Pack, Ragga Twins, Fabio & Grooverider and all that. Then it was Rising High, Warp Records, GPR, I'm doin too much, The Black Dog, Aphex Twin, I'll give it all up soon, B12, Autechre, Biosphere, Shit, I'm arse-faced, Laurent Garnier, Global Communication, Scanner, Mixy Morris, Luke Slater, What bed, fuck that where's the rizla, Air Liquide, John Beltran... Bedlam, FSOL, bedlam, Artificial Intelligence, bedlam...

Where am I? This aint The Crazy Club, This aint Busbys, aint Camden Palace. Nowhere near Islington, I'm not in a field either. This aint Lost and it aint the Wag (No rizlas mate). What am I? Who are these people? This aint my bed, my missus gonna kill me... Classic tunes.

"Think for yourself, question authority". Tim leary, shiteyed, sometime.

Best Prince sample? Something from the '80s if we can't have the Ragga twins.

DMSR said:Lo

I always liked this song and the "Do Me Baby" sample rules! Anybody else like this one?

I am a HUGE 2pac and Prince fan I knew 2pac was a Prince fan he even mentioned it in his Documentary Ressurection but i had no idea To Live and Die in L.A. was a Do Me Baby sample.

Skip to 3:00 for an ill sample.

sirnasstee said:

DMSR said:Lo

I always liked this song and the "Do Me Baby" sample rules! Anybody else like this one?

I am a HUGE 2pac and Prince fan I knew 2pac was a Prince fan he even mentioned it in his Documentary Ressurection but i had no idea To Live and Die in L.A. was a Do Me Baby sample.

"2 Live & Die In LA" is a classic. When I made my Tupac documentary for the BBC, I told QD3 during my interview with him that it is in my Top 5 Tupac songs. He was pleased about that

However, the reason why many people can't identify it as a Prince sample is because it's not. For two reasons.

1) It's actually based upon Meli'sa Morgan's cover version of "Do Me, Baby" rather than Prince's original. Check it out for yourself.

2) It's not a direct sample - QD3 replayed the synth parts himself. That's why it's credited as an "interpolation" rather than a sample.

(P.S Since we're talking 'Pac, check out this cut.... unreleased Thug Life era track... "Is It Cool 2 Fuck".....completely based on a 5 second sample of The Time's "Get It Up")

Hey, i just noticed something, 2Pac sounds like Tony M.

Jump Around - House of Pain

Tennesee by Arrested Development.

No Rappers Delight on that one:

This samples the 1988 Prince song "Alphabet Street," but just the word "Tennessee." Speech explains that he didn't clear the sample: "I didn't know to in 1991, the sample laws weren't very clearly set out back then. It was our first record, we definitely weren't vets in the industry, we didn't understand all the game play and the rules. So we didn't ask for permission. I learned as a producer pretty quickly the laws of sampling: it's the wild, wild West out there. So what happened was the record obviously was getting some pretty good heat. MTV had a show called Buzz Clips, and they added it and it just became this huge phenomenon. And as the song moved up the chart the album got to #3 on the pop charts. And once it went down, the very week it went to #4, we got a call from Prince's representation. They waited for that song to sell as many possible copies as they could wait for. As soon as it started to go down the charts we got a call, and the Reaper became the reaped. So we got charged for that sample pretty heavily. I paid $100,000 for that word."

http://www.songfacts.com/...p?id=10720

Tittypants said:

You guys must have never heard Rapper Big Pooh's The Purple Tape. That has some dope uses of Prince samples on it......

Someone on Twitter was tweeting about this project recently. Guess I'll check that out in a few. Jay-Z's "Purple Album" had some pretty cool samples as well.

milesb said:

Tennesee by Arrested Development.

No Rappers Delight on that one:

This samples the 1988 Prince song "Alphabet Street," but just the word "Tennessee." Speech explains that he didn't clear the sample: "I didn't know to in 1991, the sample laws weren't very clearly set out back then. It was our first record, we definitely weren't vets in the industry, we didn't understand all the game play and the rules. So we didn't ask for permission. I learned as a producer pretty quickly the laws of sampling: it's the wild, wild West out there. So what happened was the record obviously was getting some pretty good heat. MTV had a show called Buzz Clips, and they added it and it just became this huge phenomenon. And as the song moved up the chart the album got to #3 on the pop charts. And once it went down, the very week it went to #4, we got a call from Prince's representation. They waited for that song to sell as many possible copies as they could wait for. As soon as it started to go down the charts we got a call, and the Reaper became the reaped. So we got charged for that sample pretty heavily. I paid $100,000 for that word."

http://www.songfacts.com/...p?id=10720

Interesting fact. I remember hearing about this.

Imagine how much he made on the publishing on top of that $100,000!

Almost forgot another favorite sample 2Pac used was "777-9311" on "Whatz Ya Phone #" This was on his "All Eyes on Me" CD. This is awesome too!

Militant said:

sirnasstee said:

I am a HUGE 2pac and Prince fan I knew 2pac was a Prince fan he even mentioned it in his Documentary Ressurection but i had no idea To Live and Die in L.A. was a Do Me Baby sample.

"2 Live & Die In LA" is a classic. When I made my Tupac documentary for the BBC, I told QD3 during my interview with him that it is in my Top 5 Tupac songs. He was pleased about that

However, the reason why many people can't identify it as a Prince sample is because it's not. For two reasons.

1) It's actually based upon Meli'sa Morgan's cover version of "Do Me, Baby" rather than Prince's original. Check it out for yourself.

2) It's not a direct sample - QD3 replayed the synth parts himself. That's why it's credited as an "interpolation" rather than a sample.

(P.S Since we're talking 'Pac, check out this cut.... unreleased Thug Life era track... "Is It Cool 2 Fuck".....completely based on a 5 second sample of The Time's "Get It Up")

Yea I figured it was rerecording, definitely sounds a little different, but Ive always loved those chords. Check out 2Pac's "Whatz Ya Phone #" on All eyes on Me for a 777-9311 sample!

DMSR said:

Militant said:

"2 Live & Die In LA" is a classic. When I made my Tupac documentary for the BBC, I told QD3 during my interview with him that it is in my Top 5 Tupac songs. He was pleased about that

However, the reason why many people can't identify it as a Prince sample is because it's not. For two reasons.

1) It's actually based upon Meli'sa Morgan's cover version of "Do Me, Baby" rather than Prince's original. Check it out for yourself.

2) It's not a direct sample - QD3 replayed the synth parts himself. That's why it's credited as an "interpolation" rather than a sample.

(P.S Since we're talking 'Pac, check out this cut.... unreleased Thug Life era track... "Is It Cool 2 Fuck".....completely based on a 5 second sample of The Time's "Get It Up")

Yea I figured it was rerecording, definitely sounds a little different, but Ive always loved those chords. Check out 2Pac's "Whatz Ya Phone #" on All eyes on Me for a 777-9311 sample!

Yep, another classic. Johnny J who produced that, was a good friend of mine. May he rest in peace. We had some good conversations about Prince and The Time and how he and 'Pac would ride around bumping those tracks.

Here's another one that's pretty cool - the unreleased original demo of "Thugz Get Lonely Too" samples If I Was Your Girlfriend - what's even cooler is that it doesn't sample the original studio version, but rather the live version from the SOTT movie.

So much better than the garbage remix that Eminem did which got officially released.

Angelic1302 said:

McHammer - Pray

Who is McHammer? Is he a Scottish rapper?

ConsciousContact said:

Angelic1302 said:

McHammer - Pray

Who is McHammer? Is he a Scottish rapper?

L M A O !!!!!!!!

[Edited 11/25/12 16:36pm]

Militant said:

DMSR said:

Yea I figured it was rerecording, definitely sounds a little different, but Ive always loved those chords. Check out 2Pac's "Whatz Ya Phone #" on All eyes on Me for a 777-9311 sample!

Yep, another classic. Johnny J who produced that, was a good friend of mine. May he rest in peace. We had some good conversations about Prince and The Time and how he and 'Pac would ride around bumping those tracks.

Here's another one that's pretty cool - the unreleased original demo of "Thugz Get Lonely Too" samples If I Was Your Girlfriend - what's even cooler is that it doesn't sample the original studio version, but rather the live version from the SOTT movie.

So much better than the garbage remix that Eminem did which got officially released.

TOO DOPE!

DMSR said:

I always liked this song and the "Do Me Baby" sample rules! Anybody else like this one?

Not as much as 2Pac sampling "Darling Nikki" throughout 'Heartz of Men'. That's the deepest sample ever IMO.