James Brown Sampling in Hip-Hop (Back to the forum)

In honor of Brown’s 80th birthday, I’d like to share some really big, and really iconic hip-hop songs that you may or may not have known sampled Brown.

Pete Rock & CL Smooth — TROY
Public Enemy — Welcome to the Terrordome
Eric B. and Rakim — Move the Crowd
KRS One — Poetry
Big Daddy Kane — Raw
Kool Moe Dee — How Ya Like Me Now
Ice Cube — Jackin' for Beats
Gangstarr — Manifest
Notorious B.I.G — Dreams
Run DMC — Beats to the Rhyme
MC Lyte — Ruffneck
Kanye West & Jay-Z — Gotta Have It
Nas — Get Down

R.I.P. to a great musician and one of the most sampled men in Hip-Hop history.

Funky drummer’s drumbreak, is one of the most sampled drumbreaks ever.

If you haven’t heard it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVn7gy2p-wc 5.15 i’m sure you’ll recognize the beat

Big Payback:
Mic Checka — Das Efx
Jackin For Beats — Ice Cube
Guerillas In Tha Mist — Lench Mob

http://www.whosampled.com/sampled/James%20Brown/?sp=1&ob=2

I’d like to add a few:

2Pac — Last Wordz
A Tribe Called Quest — Show Business
AZ — Rather Unique
Boogie Down Productions — South Bronx
De La Soul — Freedom of Speak (We Got Three Minutes)
Eric B. & Rakim — Lyrics of Fury
Ice-T — You Played Yourself
Jaz-O — The Originators
Large Professor — Ijuswannachill
LL Cool J — Mama Said Knock You Out
Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth — Bad Mutha
Lupe Fiasco — The Cool
MC Lyte — 10% Dis
Naughty by Nature — Hip Hop Hooray
N.W.A. — 100 Miles and Runnin'
Public Enemy — Fight the Power
Run-DMC — Run’s House
The Stop the Violence Movement — Self-Destruction

Godfather of Soul, rest in peace <3

Happy Bday James Brown!, indirect founding fathers of Hip Hop

my neighbours will be celebrating this occassion regardless of whether they like it or not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5DTznu-9v0

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mohgHt4lj_0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5vw4ajnWGA

This is a much better example of Dilla’s use of James Brown vocal samples
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXd5ZXTjStA

Y'all must have forgot Dilla’s masterful sampling of “Payback” into a hook on Common’s “Payback is a Grandmother"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIS9OUss1KQ

Even BETTER use of a James Brown vocal sample.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STcgza9tnrc