BREAKS & BITS 3
NINETIES R&B and HIP-HOP
THE STYLISTICS - You Are Everything >< MARY J. BLIGE - Everything
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1971
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This classic philly soul track from 1971 comes from The Stylistics on their debut album. The song has been covered often over the years, it's been covered by Rod Stewart and Dian Ross and Marvin Gaye, and many others. The song was also sampled on many songs including Usher's 2008 Love In This Club. This 1997 cover from Mary J Blige also uses samples some elements from A Taste Of Honey's Sukiyaki.
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1997
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RICK JAMES - Moonchild >< MARY J. BLIGE - Love Is All We Need
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1985
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This funk track from Rick James is off his 1985 Glow album. It was sampled on Mary J Blige's Love Is All We Need, and that same year it was sampled for Jay-Z's You're Only A Customer, and for singles from Diamond D and from Maja League. The following year 50 Cent sampled Moonchild for his Moon Man.
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1997
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LUCHI DE JESUS - Round Midnight >< KRS-ONE - A Friend
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1965
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This jazzey groove underneeth philosopher in chief KRS-One's 1997 A Friend comes off Round Midnight, a obscure 1965 track from composer/producer Luchi De Jesus. This very elusive track has been sampled only a couple other times.
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1997
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MARCUS MILLER - Much Too Much >< JAY-Z - Can't Knock The Hustle
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1983
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Jazz composer/producer Marcus Miller spent much of his career as a session musician and as a side man to Luther Vandross, David Sanborn, Grover Washington Jr. and Miles Davis. Miller has also done film scores for dozens of movies, including House Party and Above The Rim. He wrote Da Butt for Spike Lee's School Daze, and he won a Grammy for Power Of Love - which he wrote for Luther Vandross. This 1983 song was famously used by Jay-Z.
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1996
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DAVID PORTER - I'm Afraid The Masquarde Is Over >< NOTORIOUS BIG - Who Shot Ya?
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1971
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Singer/Songwriter/producer was inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame in 2005. Porter's whopping 1700 songwriting credits come from musicians ranging from Issac Hayes to Celine Dion to Wu Tang Clan. He is know for writing Sam & Dave's Soul Man in 1968, and for Will Smith's Getting Jiggy Wit It in 1998. This notorious sample from Portor's The Masquerade Is Over was famously used on Biggie's Who Shot Ya in 1994.
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1994
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LL COOL J - Back Seat >< MONICA - Don't Take It Personal
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1993
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Monica's chart-topping Don't Take It Personal in 1995 constructed it's groove on top of the beats and other elements from LL Cool's 1993 Backseat. Monica's follow-up to this - Before You Walk Out Of My Life - went number one as well, making the fourteen year old the youngest artist to achieve two consecutive number one hits on Billboard's R&B chart.
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1995
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CHIC - Chic Cheer >< FAITH EVANS - Love Like This
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1978
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This song is off Chic's second album in 1978 C'est Chic, the best selling album ever for Warner Music and Atlantic Records. Although Le Freak was the single off this album that gained the most attention, this song has become the band's anthem. In 1998 Sean "Puffy" Combs looped the beat from this signature song for the Faith Evans hit song Love Like This.
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1998
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FRANCOIS DE ROUBAIX - Dernier Domicile Connu >< MISSY ELLIOTT - All In My Grill
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1970
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This obscure 1970 soundtrack from the film Derneir Domicile Connu, a French-Italian thriller, has been sampled in over twenty songs, Most recently it was used by Kid Cudi in Mr. Rager, and by Kendrick Lamar in War Is My Love. This Missy Elliott song that sampled the soundtrack in 1999 was produced with a very successful alternate bi-lingual version that featured a rap in French by MC Solar.
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1999
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CURTIS MAYFIELD - Right On For The Darkness >< MASE ft TOTAL - What You Want
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1973
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Grammy Legend Curtis Mayfield is one of the most celebrated soul musicians ever. This 1974 soul classic from Mayfield has been sampled dozens of times. The song was sampled in 1990 for Gangstarr's Take A Rest, and it was sampled more recently by Wiz Khalifa's 2010 Glass House. In 1998 the song's sample appears on this Mase hit single and also on R. Kelly's hit Do You Ever Think..
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1998
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CLAUDJA BARRY - Love For The Sake Of Love >< MONTELL JORDAN - Get It On Tonight
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1976
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Claudja Barry was well know for her years with Boney M before releasing this song on her 1976 solo debut album Sweet Dynamite. The Canadian singer and actress was later know for doing musicals, and she appeared in the 1986 movie Rappin'. In 1999 Montell Jordan sang over a looped sample from this song on his big hit Get It On Tonight, and the following year Da Brat sampled the song on Whut'cha Like.
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1999
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