Masta Ace Incorporated - People In My Hood (1995) sampled Al Green - Home Again (1975)

Artist:  Masta Ace Incorporated
Song:  People In My Hood
Year:  1995
Album:  Sittin' On Chrome

Is Masta Ace the best Emcee of all time?  A case can be made to give him a spot in the Top 5, especially when you consider his longevity and success.

Artist:  Smoovth
Song:  Happiness
Year:  2010
Album:  Little Boy Blue

A Representative Sample reader put me on to this song and inspired this post.  Check out this gem.

Artist:  Al Green
Song:  Home Again
Year:  1975
Album:  Livin' For You

The Al Green catalog is huge and it should come as no surprise that I am still learning about samples from his records.

Masta Ace used the one-bar loop from 0:09 and occasionally used the one-bar from 1:09.

The Smoovth song is a masterful chopping job with too many samples to list.  The intro used a short sample from 1:28.  The main part of the song used samples from 1:12 to 1:30 and the end of the song used a sample from 0:56 to 0:59 with some other pieces.

Nas-T Howie - Attic (Original Mix) (1996) sampled Ohio Players - Alone (1975)

Artist:  Nas-T Howie
Song:  Attic (Original Mix)
Year:  1996
Album:  Attic 12-inch Single

Toronto classic.  The only copy of this I have is on an old cassette, so I grabbed this from an online mixtape.

Artist:  Devin The Dude
Song:  Don't Wanna Be Alone
Year:  2007
Album:  Waitin' To Inhale

I should have figured that Devin would sound perfect on the same music.

Artist:  Bahamadia
Song:  Interlude
Year:  1996
Album:  Kollage

DJ Premier produced this track.  Gang Starr liked this Ohio Players album because other songs were sampled for Group Home "So Called Friends" and Gang Starr "Doe In Advance".  Guru Rest In Peace!

Artist:  Ohio Players
Song:  Alone
Year:  1975
Album:  Honey

When I was young and saw my first Ohio Players album, I knew it was going to be good.

Nas-T Howie used the sample from 0:05 to 0:12.

Devin The Dude used the 4-bar loop at 0:15 and also the 4-bar loop at 1:30.

Bahamadia used the 1-bar loop from 3:37.