Keeping myself organized...here's another new series. Inspired by Mos Def's totally fucking awesome and, well, inspiring show Saturday night on the USC campus, I'm going to be posting about some excellent songs sampled in hip hop tracks. Shazam-blizzity:
Appropriately, we start with the sample from Mos's hit "Ms. Fat Booty," a plaintive slice of soul from Queen Aretha herself. DJ Kool G uses quite a bit of this sample in his production, and, as was the standard in pre-Kanye days, the vocals and instrumental are pretty much untwisted. A little chopped and mixed, but essentially the same as the original. DJ Preservation, who was backing up Mos the other night, played most of this before dropping into the beat, and we had a cozy, campfire singalong with it.
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