Sampled By Who?? Ike Turner vs Jurassic 5

Ike Turner was a player in the music industry for many years before releasing his first proper solo LP 'A Black Man's Soul' (backed up by his long time band The Kings Of Rhythm), working his way up from humble beginnings aged just 8 years old. This was released back in 1969 as an all instrumental project and was squeezed in between the stuff he and Tina were doing at the time, but it's still chunked out with classy funk cuts. Getting Nasty is probably the pick of these, according to sample count anyway, and you will recognize it straight away - a piano groove led slice of raw funk! The pressing sounds a bit curious apparantly cos it was 'electronically reprocessed for stereo using the original monographic recordings.', but also it's the last track on side A so those levels are getting crunched anyway.


Ike Turner & The Kings Of Rhythm - Getting Nasty



Can you tell where Jurassic 5 might have used that? Yep the Californian group's DJ /Production duo, Cut Chemist and DJ Soundlab chopped and looped it to fine effect creating this monster late nineties hip hop classic.

Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard




An Main Source also nicked a bit of it, honest, I'm not just posting wicked main source tracks up on here for no reason again! This one does actually sample Getting Nasty. Right at the start, listen:

Main Source - Snake Eyes

Sampled By Who?? Outlaw Blues Band vs Cypress Hill

Hello Hello!

So today's update is going back to the original steez, and I'm coming with a serious tune! The Outlaw Blues Band hailed form California and this track appeared on their 1969 LP 'Breaking In' which was produced by Bob Thiele. They were part of a wide ranging blues revivalist scene that was going on back in those days, and thanks to this tune right here are still being revived today!


Outlaw Blues Band - Deep Gully





Then back in '93 Muggs, B Real and Sen Dog aka Cypress Hill dropped this on us. I vividly remember getting the Black Sunday CD for Christmas in 93/94. Good Times! It's still a fantastic LP and well worth a listen. I'll stick up a few of the other tunes Muggs sampled over the weekend

Cypress Hil - When The Shit Goes Down



Flip forward 20 odd years, and possibly the greatest early nineties hip hop group Main Source (consisting of the Large Professor, Sir Scratch and K Cut) dropped this bomb on their seminal début LP Breaking Atoms. I think this came out originally in 1991. EDIT: An it definately doesn't sample Deep Gully so who knows why I even posted it...

Main Source - Just A Friendly Game Of Baseball