Some of these songs sound retro to me, I'm so sure they were sampled

Love Is All We Need-Mary J.Blige
I Can Love You-Mary J.Blige
Gotta Get You Home-Foxy Brown & Blackstreet
The City-Blackstreet & Jay Z
I'll Be-Foxy Brown & Jay Z
Dear Mama-2pac
Sky's the Limit-Notorious B.I.G.

Would someone please tell me which songs they sampled so I could check out the originals?
[Edited 12/22/07 5:32am]

alphastreet said:

Moon Child - Rick James


Doesn't this sample a Lil' Kim song?


Gotta Get You Home Tonight - Eugene Wilde


You Belong to the City - Glenn Frey


I'll Be Good - Rene & Angela


Sadie - The Spinners (IIRC, but I haven't heard "Dear Mama" since it was first out)


My Flame - Bobby Caldwell

I thought love is all we need sounded very rick james, thanks

alphastreet said:

http://www.the-breaks.com is a good resource for locating samples.

AlexdeParis said:

"I Can Love You" samples the beat from Lil' Kim's solo debut "Queen Bitch", according to Share My World's liner notes. The piano in the "Queen Bitch" sample is one bar from Roberta Flack's "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye".

alphastreet said:

In fact, all of the samples in these songs were properly cleared and listed in each album's liner notes.

RipHer2Shreds said:

Hey, thanks for the link!

AlexdeParis said:

He's so hip hop.

You know what I wish you could search "the-breaks" by? By producer.

I found that over the years, certain albums repeated themselves as sampling material not for the same artists but the same producer of different artists.