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New releases

• Ace Hood (featuring Lil Wayne & Rick Ross) – “Hustle Hard (Remix)“
• Cam’ron (featuring Vado) – “Sour Life”
• Bonus track: Vado – “On His Own”

Show summary

Biz Markie’s “I Need a Haircut” was withdrawn due to a sample from Gilbert O’Sullivan’s “Alone Again (Naturally)”. The album was later released without the offending song. Contrary to our top-of-head recollection, Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” wasn’t exactly the first song with legal sampling issues. That title is likely held by “Pump Up the Volume” by M|A|R|R|S. It seems like the only available video where Vanilla Ice explains the difference is from VH-1’s “I Love the ’90s”. Also, as mentioned in the Wikipedia about sampling, “in a 1990 interview, Van Winkle said the two melodies were slightly different because he had added an additional note.”

Additional links

• Nate Harrison’s 2004 video about the “Amen Break“
• The Winstons – “Amen, Brother” (1969)
• Run-D.M.C. – “Here We Go (live at the Funhouse)” (1983)
• Billy Squire – “The Big Beat” (1981)
• Kraftwerk – “The Man Machine“
• The Fearless Four – “Rockin’ It“
• Jay-Z featuring Foxy Brown – “Sunshine“
• Jay-Z’s book, “Decoded“
• Bob James – “Take Me to the Mardis Gras” — probably best known as the sample used by Run-D.M.C. for “Peter Piper“
• Luniz – “I Got Five On It” — which samples Club Nouveau “Why You Treat Me So Bad“
• Digital Underground – “Freaks of the Industry” — uses a sample from Donna Summer – “Love to Love You Baby” (approximately 4:05 in to the track)

Hip-Hop Homework

Pick a song and dissect it into its original pieces.