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.

Capone And Noreaga - Married To Marijuana (1997) sampled Al Green - Something (1976)

Artist:  Capone And Noreaga (Capone -N- Noreaga)
Song:  Married To Marijuana
Year:  1997
Album:  Not Officially Released (White Label 12-inch)

This song would have fit in perfectly on "The War Report" album.  I can imagine Al Green not wanting to clear the sample because of the lyrics.

Artist:  Brand Nubian
Song:  Maybe One Day
Year:  1998
Album:  Foundation

I figure Brand Nubian dropped the science on Al Green and he gladly cleared the sample. 

Artist:  Al Green
Song:  Something
Year:  1976
Album:  Have A Good Time

A lot of babies were made to this stuff.  The Capone -N- Noreaga sample is a four-bar loop starting at 0:01.  Brand Nubian used the same loop.  Capone -N- Noreaga also took the sample from 0:29 for a two-bar loop in the chorus.

Tha Alkaholiks - 2014 (1995) sampled Al Green - The Letter (1969)

Artist:  Tha Alkaholiks
Song:  2014
Year:  1995
Album:  Coast II Coast

When I saw the movie Back To The Future Part II in 1989, I wondered if 2015 would be anything like in the movie.  We still don't have flying skateboards in 2013.  Tha Alkaholiks also painted this vision of the future which starts tomorrow.

Artist:  The Notorious B.I.G.
Song:  Long Kiss Goodnight
Year:  1997
Album:  Life After Death

This double album had its commercial moments but also some gems like this one.

Artist:  Capone-N-Noreaga
Song:  L.A., L.A. (Kuwait Remix)
Year:  1996
Album:  Illegal Life / Stick You / L.A., L.A. 12-inch Single

This song appeared on many mixtapes and was an underappreciated remix.  Add this to Marley Marl's long list of classic productions.

Artist:  Al Green
Song:  The Letter
Year:  1969
Album:  Green Is Blues

Tha Alkaholiks sampled one bar from 0:01.  The Notorious B.I.G. sampled two bars from 0:01.  Capone-N-Noreaga sampled one bar from 0:03.