Last night I was minding my own business, watching Boyz n the Hood on Netflix: Watch Instantly when, just in time for Music Monday, I heard this and got all worked up:
OK all snobbery and posturing aside HOW EXCITING IS IT when you hear an old song and realize you know it as a sample from another song? Or on the flip side, when you hear a song and actually recognize whatever it's sampling? I'm notoriously bad at this, and actually didn't realize until my senior year in college (seriously!) that Biz Markie's Just a Friend (my favorite song ever) actually takes its hook from a different song. Yes, I'm really THAT bad at this.
Luckily for ignorant individuals like myself, YouTube recommended this gem:
The first 2 minutes are really the highlight of this, particularly his Kraftwerk moves at 1:30. Those eyes! That darkened room! The note in the "video info" explaining that he made 20 different version of this! Ok readers, we D.A.R.E. you to connect the dots on this one.
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