Rah Digga - Harriet Thugman (1999) sampled Lou Courtney - I've Got Just The Thing (1967)

Artist:  Rah Digga
Song:  Harriet Thugman
Year:  1999
Album:  Dirty Harriet

If I was stuck on a Caribbean island with just this blog, I would want this song to be available to me.  I love the energy from this track.

Artist:  X-Clan
Song:  Verbs Of Power
Year:  1990
Album:  To The East Blackwards

Sissyyyyyyy!  Don't sleep on this album.  I miss the days when Emcees were all very different characters.

Artist:  Lou Courtney
Song:  I've Got Just The Thing
Year:  1967
Album:  Skate Now Shing-A-Ling

I think I'll do the Shing-A-Ling at the next wedding I attend.  The Rah Digga and X-Clan samples both use the four bars starting at 0:00.

Curren$y (Spitta Andretti) - Stolen (2014) sampled Michal Urbaniak - A Day In The Park (1978)

Artist:  Curren$y (Spitta Andretti)
Song:  Stolen
Year:  2014
Album:  The Drive In Theatre

This album and song will likely make my Top 25 lists at the end of the year.  I think that this is the hot sample for 2014.

Artist:  Freddie Gibbs X The Worlds Freshest
Song:  Interlude
Year:  2014
Album:  The Tonite Show

It's too bad that this is only an interlude on this album; Gangsta Gibbs would have blessed this beat.

Artist:  Michal Urbaniak
Song:  A Day In The Park
Year:  1978
Album:  Ecstasy

This sample sounds like it should have been a Statik Selektah beat, maybe he'll use it in the future.  The Curren$y sample is the 4-bar loop starting at 0:01.  Freddie Gibbs used only the first two bars of the same sample and also added the vocal sample "fresh air, what a day" from 0:20.