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Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa

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Reply #1 posted 01/28/12 12:03pm

LiLi1992

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This guy stole the chorus from MJ. lol
What a shame!

Seriously, a great beat. headbang

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Reply #2 posted 01/28/12 12:05pm

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^ Other way around, darlin' lol

But still, this is the JAM! music

The salvation of man is through love and in love. - Dr. V. Frankl

"When you close your heart, you close your mind." - Michael Jackson (Man In The Mirror)

"I don't need anger management, I need people to stop pissing me off" lol
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Reply #3 posted 01/28/12 1:17pm

woogiebear

LiLi1992 said:

This guy stole the chorus from MJ. lol
What a shame!

Seriously, a great beat. headbang

Soul Makossa came out in the Early 70's!!!!!!!!!

cool

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Reply #4 posted 01/28/12 2:00pm

LiLi1992

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woogiebear said:

LiLi1992 said:

This guy stole the chorus from MJ. lol
What a shame!

Seriously, a great beat. headbang

Soul Makossa came out in the Early 70's!!!!!!!!!

cool

I know !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cool
It was just a JOKE!
I thought lol-smile show that I was not serious. rolleyes

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Reply #5 posted 01/28/12 4:31pm

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Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch sampled this, but I don't remember the name of the song. I haven't listened to his album since the early 1990's. The version by the Fania All Stars is good. Manu plays on it too.

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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #6 posted 01/29/12 5:51pm

woogiebear

LiLi1992 said:

woogiebear said:

Soul Makossa came out in the Early 70's!!!!!!!!!

cool

I know !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cool
It was just a JOKE!
I thought lol-smile show that I was not serious. rolleyes

ok.........lol

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Reply #7 posted 01/29/12 9:26pm

MadamGoodnight

This is my ish! This reminds me of my funky uncle lol

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Reply #8 posted 01/31/12 12:15am

theAudience

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MickyDolenz said:

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch sampled this, but I don't remember the name of the song. I haven't listened to his album since the early 1990's. The version by the Fania All Stars is good. Manu plays on it too.

On The House Tip (Marky Mark)


From an old post...


On the 1972 Afro-funk jam "Soul Makossa", the Camaroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango opens things up by muttering "mama-koo mama-sa maku ma-ku-sa" before his ridiculously pimped-out sax riff kicks in. New York loft party DJs picked up on the song, and it ended up becoming one of the staples of the just-revving-up disco scene. A decade later, Michael Jackson tweaked that chant for his eternal pop-funk banger "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'", turning it into "mama-say mama-sa mama ma-ku-sa." According to a Guardian report, now Dibango is suing a bunch of people over that perceived swipe. Because it's 1983. Oh wait. No it isn't.

The reason for this particular burst of litigation: Rihanna's dance-pop burner "Don't Stop the Music", Pitchfork's #70 single of 2008, sampled Jackson's "mama-say" chant to great effect. As the Guardian reports, Dibango actually already sued Jackson back in the day, and the two settled out of court. But when Rihanna's people cleared the Michael Jackson sample, they didn't get Dibango's permission, and now he wants his. Dibango is now suing Sony BMG, Warner Music, and EMI over the use of that chant.

...http://www.pitchforkmedia...el-jackson

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