When Shock G and co. combined the drums from Parliament’s ‘Theme From The Black Hole‘ and Sly and the Family Stone’s ‘Sing A Sample Song‘ to create the dancefloor genius that is ‘The Humpty Dance’ beat, little did they know that inspired piece of sampling would be jacked by no less than 125 other rap and R&B songs. Instead of getting salty, they decided to create a song dedicated to all of their illegitamate musical offspring in an appropriately humorous fashion, while the liner notes further explain why they aren’t planning on suing everyone like a bunch of cry babies. Well played, gentleman.
I forgot about this. George Clinton and Sly Stone went half on one hell of a baby…
Damn I never put that together. Fun fact of the day.
its actually ‘Lets Play House’ by Parliament
‘Theme From The Black Hole’ was used on ‘Same Song’
@Awkward: Fucking ‘Who Sampled’ strikes again.
Dr Dre had this sample first on Eazy-Duz-it.
These cats were corny as hell! Horrible gimmicks.
I find a pleasing symmetry in Robbie misidentifying a sample the same week as mocking KRS for misidentifying the dead Beastie Boy. Balance is restored to the force.
Digital Underground/Shock G were great but they did have a tendency to overegg. Consequently, each album had a handful of dope lost amid a sea of “we get the point already” filler. You could easily halve DU albums and have classic EPs. Shock G is sorely slept on as a writer/performer/conceptualist.
cant help it
@robbie have you managed to track down King Grand from KAOS at all?
talking drums…
guess:
loop: “simple song”
clap: “theme…”
shuffle stab & more: “…house”
mission: get shock g on the phone!
Whats the video of? It says unavailable
In da real world, pac should have stayed part of DI, DI had a good thing going after this hit, miss them big time.