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It’s time for another installment of….
Guess That Sample!
Here’s the game: as I notice old funk, jazz, and soul tracks sampled by rap/hip hop artists, I post the original on the site. Then you try to see if you can recognize who sampled it. I reveal the answer, and you can listen to the sampled version. You feel happy and proud for guessing correctly, or sad and disappointed for not knowing the answer.
Last time we played Guess That Sample I threw out a fairly obscure one, but this time it’s maybe a bit more obvious.
Here’s the fun part - if you know who it is, and you can guess it correctly, you win a free dollar record. Just tell one of the Cousins that you knew the answer to Guess That Sample, and you will be entitled to a free record from the dollar store.
Here’s the original, called Be Alright by Zapp:
Now, click “read the rest…” to see who sampled this and to listen to the cut.
by Cousin Geoff
I’m rolling out a new feature here on Cousins Vinyl. It’s called “Guess That Sample”.
It’s really a shame that sampling is pretty much outlawed now in hip-hop; it’s killing the genre. Sampling is what the art is based on - not only is it a tribute to the funk and jazz that came before it, but it’s how it was born in the first place. It’s probably why I gravitate towards the old school stuff, yeah - I grew up on it - but I really have no interest in listening to most of today’s rap: some bullshit negative lyrics backed by a generic, synthetic beat made by the same two or three guys that sell ‘em to all the top rappers. It’s garbage - give me the old stuff with heavy samples any day.
A lot of times I’ll be listening to a 70s funk or jazz album and I’ll have one of those - ”hey! that’s the sample off the so and so record!” - moments. Justin and I just drafted a bunch of 70s jazz/funk records off a collection we bought recently. I was listening to this Rasta Afro-funk group called Cymande tonight, their self-titled debut album, and I heard a sample I recognized right away. It’s from their song, Dove.
Listen to it and see if you can guess who sampled it. Then click “read the rest…” below to get the answer and hear the track that it’s featured on.
