![]() Some samples leave all the emotional weight and cultural signifiers of an existing piece of music intact - a colloidal particle that floats inside a piece of music yet maintains its inherent properties. Through sampling, hip-hop producers can literally borrow the song that influenced them, replay it, reuse it, rethink it, repeat it, recontextualize it. Sampling, however is a uniquely post-modern twist, turning folk heritage into a living being, something that transfers more than just DNA. It’s similar to the way folk musicians update the storyline of a popular murder ballad or put their unique pluck on a familiar set of chords. Influenced by Jay-Z’s unknockable hustle, Atlanta rapper Young Jeezy flipped Jigga’s rock-hard version in 2005 on “Bottom of the Map” with “I do it for the.Snoop was surely the influence when the line went back to New York in 1999, when Jay-Z started “Jigga My N-” with a salute to his Roc-A-Fella record label: “Jay-Z, motherfucker, from the-the-the Roc.”.In 1993, to show respect to his West Coast paterfamilias, Snoop Dogg vocally emulated the Dre-tweaked stutter on his debut single, “Who Am I (What’s My Name),” rapping he’s “funky as the-the-the Doc.” As the centerpiece of a multiplatinum album, Snoop’s version of the line ended up being the most popular one of all.Dre manipulated Moe Dee’s record, giving his self-assured baritone a case of the hiccups, making him stutter out “ the-the-Doc, the-the-the-Doc” on “Mind Blowin’,” a single by Dre’s protégée The D.O.C. In 1986 in New York, Kool Moe Dee told careless Casanovas to “Go See the Doctor.”. ![]() Check the technique and see if you can follow it: Melodies, motifs, stories, cadences, slang and pulses are all handed down among generations and micro-generations, evolving so rapidly that it’s easy to lose track of exactly where anything actually began. Does a sample on a record work in the same way? Can the essence of a hip-hop record be found in the motives, emotions and energies of the artists it samples? Is it likely that something an artist intended 20 years ago will re-emerge anew? A 68-year-old woman suddenly craves the favorite foods of her 18-year-old heart donor, a 56-year-old professor gets strange flashes of light in his dreams and learns that his donor was a cop who was shot in the face by a drug dealer. The examples read like "Twilight Zone" episodes. Parapsychologist Gary Schwartz told the New York Post that living cells have memory cells that store information that can be passed along when the organ is transplanted. Scientists say they’ve documented more than 70 cases of organ transplant recipients who adopt the personality traits of their donors. Eventually, he too killed himself with a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. Exactly like the previous owner of the heart beating in his chest, he fell in love with her. ![]() When he met her, he felt like he had known her for years. Grateful for his new lease on life, Sonny tracked down the widow to thank her. His heart was salvaged and donated to a man at risk for congestive heart failure, 57-year-old Sonny Graham. In 1995, her 33-year-old husband, Terry, had committed suicide, ending his life with a single shotgun blast. In the spring of 2008, the strange story of a Georgia widow was tearing up the AP wire. Reprinted with permission from Bloomsbury Publishing. Excerpted from " Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" by Christopher R.
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