One song that rarely gets mentioned is Grandmaster Melle Mel´s "What´s the Matter With Your World?" , a 12" single he released in 1989. The other rapper in that song is Van Silk.

Not only is the title taken from Prince´s Pop Life but the song also contains a sampled "Oh yeah!" from Sign of the Times. Back then (before the Biz Markie sample case ) rappers didn´t care that much about clearing samples. I´m not even sure if Prince ever knew about the song. It was a bit of a low profile , under the radar release. I think it was also on one of the Police Academy movie soundtracks.

Decent song for its time.

Recently Slim Thug released a single called "Black Queen" using "Do Me Baby" as a major sample in the track.

Espio said:

purplepolitician said:

I remember that Ja Rule song from Rush Hour Soundtrack. I hadn't become a fan (of P), but was aware, heard song n was like "man, somebody owe that man some money", as there was no sample credit. Lol @ Tennessee tho .

If you can find the Questlove Wreckastow DJ live stream from last year's 1st lockdown, he played ALLLLL the songs that sampled Prince. A bit of an eye opener.

Missy sampled the "Gett Off" scream, I think, in one of her songs.

Espio said:

Arrested Development sampled the word Tennessee (from the song Alphabet St) in their hit single of the same name. Prince waited until the song was topping the charts to make his move, that one word cost Speech & Arrested Development $100,000! https://en.m.wikipedia.or...ment_song) [Edited 7/3/21 14:10pm] [Edited 7/3/21 14:13pm]

You know you're the ultimate badass when you can charge 100k a word.

Although I did read (somewhere?) that Prince wavered his right to part of the royalties (or copyrights?). So he really just wanted to prove a point and didn't want to totally destroy the band!

paraded said:

Espio said:

Arrested Development sampled the word Tennessee (from the song Alphabet St) in their hit single of the same name. Prince waited until the song was topping the charts to make his move, that one word cost Speech & Arrested Development $100,000! https://en.m.wikipedia.or...ment_song) [Edited 7/3/21 14:10pm] [Edited 7/3/21 14:13pm]

You know you're the ultimate badass when you can charge 100k a word.

TraSoul82 said:

Don't forget the way Audio Two flipped the "17 Days" sample for MC Lyte's "Paper Thin" or the way Public Enemy flipped the guitar solo in "Let's Go Crazy" for "Brothers Gonna Work It Out".

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Nice and Smooth's "No Delayin" ("Starfish and Coffee"), 2Pac's "To Live and Die In LA" (Do Me, Baby"), and Jay-Z/Kanye "Welcome To The Jungle" ("When We're Dancing Close and Slow")

Sir Mix A Lot sampled Prince a few times:

"Batdance" in "Beepers,"

"Head" in "A Rapper's Reputation"

and the "shut up!" yell from "Housequake" in "Lockjaw."

The last two songs are on the "Mack Daddy" album with "Baby Got Back" on it and "Beepers" is from the album before called "Seminar."

Actually, it sounds like he also sampled "Electric Chair" on another song from "Seminar."It was the one after "Beepers," I think, but I could be wrong on that. It sure sounded like it to me, though.

HrdwcH said:

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Questlove had a couple of hours podcast about songs with Prince samples,

last year in the first part of the lockdown.

Super nice to hear.

Would love to hear it back.

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It's 2021 and nobody here has heard of https://www.whosampled.com/Prince/ .

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Which you can find via https://www.google.com/se...ce+sampled .

BartVanHemelen said:

It's 2021 and nobody here has heard of https://www.whosampled.com/Prince/ .

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Which you can find via https://www.google.com/se...ce+sampled .

Brilliant idea, man!

You know what? Why don't you just stick to Google if you are looking for info about Prince, while the rest of us discuss Princely matters on Prince.org...

For real, it will save you from a lot of stress, you won't have to be irritated all the time about those dumb people here who aren't willing or able to use Google like you do.

BTW, I appreciate the Prince news that you post sometimes. I just don't understand why you often feel like you need to belittle people?

BartVanHemelen said:

It's 2021 and nobody here has heard of https://www.whosampled.com/Prince/ .

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It's 2021 and someone here hasn't hear of the pleasure of chatting with friends about Prince?

funkaholic1972 said:

BartVanHemelen said:

It's 2021 and nobody here has heard of https://www.whosampled.com/Prince/ .

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Which you can find via https://www.google.com/se...ce+sampled .

Brilliant idea, man!

You know what? Why don't you just stick to Google if you are looking for info about Prince, while the rest of us discuss Princely matters on Prince.org...

For real, it will save you from a lot of stress, you won't have to be irritated all the time about those dumb people here who aren't willing or able to use Google like you do.

BTW, I appreciate the Prince news that you post sometimes. I just don't understand why you often feel like you need to belittle people?

We all ask the same question sometimes.

themanfromneptune said:

BartVanHemelen said:

It's 2021 and nobody here has heard of https://www.whosampled.com/Prince/ .

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It's 2021 and someone here hasn't hear of the pleasure of chatting with friends about Prince?

Brilliant!

For fuck sake, is it a forum or a cult of know-it-alls?

NoSwan said:

themanfromneptune said:

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It's 2021 and someone here hasn't hear of the pleasure of chatting with friends about Prince?

Brilliant!

For fuck sake, is it a forum or a cult of know-it-alls?

Hehe

And some of us do have other things to do in life rather than pour over every detail of Prince's life.

I know out here in the Bay (Area) RBL posse sampled Soft and Wet on one of their songs from the "Lesson to be Learned" album. The song is "I Ain't No Joke". It hasn't aged well at all. Even 25 years ago it wasn't that good.

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