This track is the jam! Hasn't it been sampled a million times? Did this dude do anything else worthy of checking out?

dancerella said:

is not the version of that guy from the temptations? can remember his name

When it first came out, I simply didn't care for it. After it started being sampled all over the place, I grew to hate it.

Dennis Edwards

vainandy said:

vainandy said:

i thought for sure you'd like this track but i guess i was wrong. it sure has been sampled many times.

It was one of those "too slow for the dance floor and too fast for the bedroom" type of tracks. In other words, midtempo. I could tolerate listening to it when it first came out but when it started being sampled all over the place in rap records, I thought to myself.....Is this the tempo of stuff that's going to be all over the dance floor? The DJ needs to hurry up and change the beat. Hell. this is dull." (You've got to remember, rap records back then were usually dance records and the "Don't Look Any Further" samples were showing up all over the dance floors).

vainandy said:

i wonder what makes rappers pick one song to sample the hell out of? it's the same with "why you treat me so bad" by club neuveau or how ever you spell it. everyone sampled that song. how the hell does that happen?

CinisterCee said:

Lack of imagination or maybe playing it safe and trying to get a hit out of the same song that someone else previously got a hit by sampling.

vainandy said:

This is correct but not always correct.

Like when Diddy took Luniz "I Got 5 On It" beat (sample: "Why You Treat Me So Bad") it had already been a hit so of course was a "safe" production.

While other tracks, like this Dennis Edwards song, or Keni Burke's "Risin' To The Top" for instance, are staples to the hip-hop DJ playlist and it's part of the culture. So they get used over and over. Just like certain riddims in dancehall music.

I THINK A GROUP CALLED THE KANE GANG DID A REMAKE OF THIS AS WELL.....

AND SIEDAH GARRETT SANG THE SONG WITH DENNIS EDWARDS.....IT'S IN MY VINYL CRATES!!!!!

This is true also. For instance, I always loved Luke and The 2 Live Crew. They loved to sample uptempo jams like "Planet Rock", "Egypt, Egypt", and "Electric Kingdom". However, finally I get bored hearing these same songs sampled in every way possible (and some have been very creative ways). I finally developed the attitude...."Damn, give me something new, I can pull my original records if I want to hear those songs".

vainandy said:

And Luke came up with some of the best megamixes of those breakbeats.

Like "Mega-Mixx II" from Move Somethin' (1988)

or "Breakdown" from I Got Shit On My Mind (1992)

Yeah, he was very creative but he seemed to run out of ideas by the time his "Scarred" album came out. He had also cussed so much he was running out of ways to cuss. On the song "Scarred", he just cussed at random with no lyrics....

Shit....fuck....bitch.....pussy.....

CinisterCee said:

good one! it was also sampled in the "girl you know it's true" remix by milli vanilli. it's dope though!

dancerella said:

yeah, although I'm pretty sure milli vanilli sampled directly off of rakim's song. I mean, they looped those same "paid in full" drums too.

This song has an interesting history. It was supposed to be a duet between Dennis and Chaka Khan. But scheduling conflicts got in the way. As it turns out, she was doing "Addicted to love", with Robert Palmer instead. Sieda Garret, was there at the time and offered to lend her voice to the session.

dancerella said:

Because they're hot!