Sampled from: Brand Nubian — Punks Jump Up to Get Beat Down (Remix)

Diamond is out and beating down all punks
So step up, if you want to keep your rep up
I don’t have to smoke a blunt to get pepped up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4c0h_p82NPg#t=106s

Slave was a funk band popular in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s.

Original Members included:

• Steve Arrington (Drums)
• Danny Webster (Lead and Rhythm guitar, Background Vocals)
• Steve Washington (Trumpet)
• Starleana Young/Curt Jones (Vocalist)
• Carter Bradley (Keyboard)
• Sam Carter (Keyboard)
• Tim Dozier (Drums)
• Charles Carter (Sax)
• Tom Lockett Jr. (Alto Sax)
• Ray Turner (Keyboard)
• Floyd Miller (Tenor)
• Orion Wilhoite (Keyboard)
• Mark Hicks (Lead and Rhythm guitar, Background Vocals)
• Mark Adams (Bass)

Full Discography

Rick James was a singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. He was best known for being the major popularizer of funk music in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Addictions to cocaine and crack hampered his career by the late 80’s and in the 90’s unfortunately.

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Teena Marie, nicknamed Lady Tee by Rick James, was a singer, songwriter and producer. She was known for her distinctive soulful vocals which initially caused many listeners to believe she was African-American.

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Sampled from: Reggie Stepper — Cuh Oonu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j4rGbYT3Z0I

Sampled from: Gang Starr — Mass Appeal

Just like baggy slacks, I’m crazy hip-hop
Check one two and you don’t stop
Your head’ll bop when I drop my crop of pure bomb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Xtk8j9gAxCA

Sampled from: Uptown — Dope On Plastic

Don’t like what I write, you have a part to act
Once told I’m on a roll and ready for combat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QSOW4__yI8g

Wildchild is 1/3 of the Hip-Hop group Lootpack. Lootpack is made up of rapper/producer Madlib, DJ Romes, and of course; Wildchild

Solo Discography:

Secondary Protocol (2003)

Jack of All Trades (2007)

Both albums were released under Stones Throw Records

The hook is sampled from Starcastles’s “The Stars Are Out Tonight”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XM7JZ_qNWrw

Other samples used throughout the song:

The Isley Brothers – For the Love of You

M.O.P. – Pounds Up

This is a reference to the track Astro Black off Quasimotos’s first full length album The Unseen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzVVuUzAmOs

In the hook of Astro Black Lord Quas recites

Just call an astro black
whenever, and I’ll come blast a cat

So wild cakes are most likely just someone that needs to be taken care of, if ya' know what I mean…

Frank N Dank is the dynamic duo of emcees Frank Bush and Derrick Harvey. They use to go by the name of Frank Nitty, a reference to the 1930s crime boss Frank Nitti.

Here Frank is paying homage to Kool Moe Dee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2RBQECLyPXk#t=21s

Also later in that same song D.M.C. of Run-D.M.C. spits

Well, I’m D.M.C. in the place to be
And the place to be is with D.M.C

Some samples that were used in this song:

Allegro Jazz Band – Composition on a Theme of Cole Porter

Paul Mauriat – Melancholy Man

Syl Johnson – Different Strokes

Doug E Fresh is argueably the most famous beat boxer of all time. He is also a pioneer of american beatboxing for the early 80’s through the late 90’s. Fresh is able to accurately imitate drum machines and various special effects using only his mouth, lips, gums, throat, and a microphone.

Discography (In case you’re interested)

• Oh, My God! (1986, with the Get Fresh Crew)
• The World’s Greatest Entertainer (1988, with the Get Fresh Crew)
• Doin' What I Gotta Do (1992, with the New Get Fresh Crew)
• Play (1995)