DJ Sleeper is at it again, always up to no good. He put together a short remix that is just out of the world crazy, sampling over 12 tracks, making it one of his most outlandish and eclectic remixes of all time.
The goal with this was to create the ultimate pregame, warmup, get hype track
I use over a dozen bits + pieces of tracks in the 5 minutes, these are most of them:
Alan Parsons Project – Sirius
Method Man + Redman – Da Rockwilder
Nina Simone – Sinnerman
Naná Vasconcelos – Brasil
Slyde – Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Twocker Remix)
Don Diablo & Example – Hooligans
Scottie B – Niggaz Fightin
DJ Sega – Bodies Hit The Floor
Daft Punk – Aerodynamic
Pitbull – Bojangles (Tittsworth Remix)
Saigon – C’mon Baby (DJ Beware Remix)
A R Rahman + M.I.A. – O…Saya
Our boy Mista-B caught in the act at Amoeba Music San Francisco copping some records and dropping off his latest CD SonicSoulSpace. Undoubtedly, he was pimping our Exclusive DMC Transit tee (which we do not sell anymore).
He’ll be back in New York in a couple weeks to compete in the USA DMC finals, attempting to win his way to the International DMC finalists competition.
There are some songs you just thought were just so hot, they couldn’t be originals. Here’s a list of 8 songs you might not have known were sampled or remade. Then again, aren’t all hip hop songs sampled now a days?
1. Hypnotize (Notorious BIG) and Rise (Herb Alpert)
Biggie’s hip hop single, Hypnotize hit #1 on the Billboard’s 100 in 1997 with the help of Herb Alpert’s single “Rise”. Putting a strong baseline onto Alpert’s sample made Hypnotize a mainstream heavy hitter across the hip hop charts.
Madcon was probably less known until he reinvented/remade Frankie Valli’s “Beggin.” It is safe to say that Frankie Valli’s Beggin was just as big of a hit as Madcon’s but generation X ears will definitely enjoy the remake with an more uptempo and harder hitting drumline. Did you know Madcon is Norwegian??? They have hip hop in Norway? Haha…just being ignorant…
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3. Luniz + Club Nouveau
I tried really hard to find the youtube sample of Club Nouveau but I didn’t. Can you find it? The Luniz released “I got 5 on it” in 1995 putting Oakland on the radar for staple hip hop classics. While I’m sure you’ve heard the tune, and most people will be quick to say this is a Luniz tune, it is actually sampled from Club Nouveau’s, not as big hit, Why You Treat Me So Bad.
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4. Corey Hart -Sunglasses at Night + Federation – I wear my Stunna Glasses at night
You know, as much as I hate this song, I can’t help but find the hook catchy in an annoying way. I just know Federation made wearing sunglasses at clubs the new fad but to each his own.
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5. Maddona – Hung up + Abba – Gimme Gimme Gimme
OK, before you jump and say, wait a minute — Maddona is NOT hip hop, I will say yes, that’s true. But I still found this very amusing when she sampled Abba.. Maddona can’t go wrong with sampling Abba, but she can go wrong with her video… What was she thinking??!!
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6. Black eyed peas – Don’t Phunk with My Heart + Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam – I Wonder if I Take You Home
I don’t know why, but BEP should have really named their song after Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam’s – I Wonder if I Take You Home. If you listen to the song, that’s really the main hook, but I suppose they didn’t want to make the sampling THAT obvious, so they just changed it to something more hip and cool? Yes, that is a question-statement because I don’t know why they did that. Let’s replace a funk with phunk and say it a couple times during the track.
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7. Timbaland – The way I are + Salt-N-Peppa – Push it
Salt-N-Peppa’s Push it has been remixed to infinity and beyond and I would normally scathe at any remix or sample with it. The horn sample is an iconic sample of the 80/90’s and is probably the biggest Salt-N-Peppa classic anthem. Timbaland is able to use the Salt-N-Peppa sample in an effective way that does Salt-N-Peppa justice.
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8. Nas I Can + Beethoven’s Fur Elise
It’s not rare that Nas samples classical music pieces — he sampled another classical piece on his “Hate Me Now” single. Anybody who has ever played piano has heard Fur Elise and anybody who has heard anybody playing piano has heard Fur Elise. Nas capitalized on this and released “I Can”, a guide to self-improvement, confidence, and self-esteem. Yes I can! As a side note, check out Beethoven’s mug shot..thats gangsta!
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Do you have any additions to the list?
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Our boy Mista-B caught in the act at Amoeba Music San Francisco copping some records and dropping off his latest CD SonicSoulSpace. Undoubtedly, he was pimping our Exclusive DMC 
There are some songs you just thought were just so hot, they couldn’t be originals. Here’s a list of 8 songs you might not have known were sampled or remade. Then again, aren’t all hip hop songs sampled now a days?
