Mobb Deep - Keepin' It Real (1994) sampled Bob James - Feel Like Making Love (1974)

Artist:  Mobb Deep
Song:  Keepin' It Real
Year:  1994
Album:  The Infamous Demo Tape

Honorary mentions to "Hazardous" by Godfather Don and "Can't Stop Rockin' (Tribute) (Goldfinger's Remix)" by Jemini The Gifted One, but I want to highlight those who sampled this song the best. Imagine if this song had made it on to The Infamous album? Perfection might have been even better. Excuse the sound quality, it's from their demo cassette.

Artist:  Termanology (featuring Skyzoo, Torae and Reks)
Song:  Get Away
Year:  2014
Album:  Shut Up And Rap

This is the song that inspired the blog post.  I was listening to this for the past 2 months constantly.  Termanology has a good ear for music to put his killer flow on.  This song has a good video as well.

Artist:  Rapper Big Pooh
Song:  My Mind
Year:  2005
Album:  Sleepers

Sleepers is a classic album, in part because of this song.

Artist:  Main Source
Song:  Scratch & Kut
Year:  1991
Album:  Breaking Atoms

Speaking of classic albums, this song uses a different sample, a one-bar loop that could repeat forever and still sound good.

Artist:  Bob James
Song:  Feel Like Making Love
Year:  1974
Album:  One

I don't even know where to start with this album, it has been sampled hundreds of times.  I still remember the first time I heard this record back in Hip Hop's golden era.  The Mobb Deep and Termanology sample is the four-bar loop from 0:00.  The Rapper Big Pooh sample appears at 4:11.  The Main Source loop is the one bar at 1:16. 

Main Source - Time (Alternative Mix) (1993 ?) sampled Roy Ayers - Gotta Find A Lover (1977)

Artist:  Main Source
Song:  Time (Alternative Mix)
Year:  1993 (?)
Album:  The Science (Not Officially Released)

I first heard this song years ago when K-Cut appeared on a local Toronto radio show promising to unearth old music from "The Science", the unreleased second Main Source album.  I thought it was a terrible shame that this album didn't get fully made because it would have been an all-time classic.  Forgive the sound quality.

Artist:  Trends Of Culture
Song:  Let Tha Big Boyz Play
Year:  1993
Album:  Trendz...

If you were listening to Hip Hop every day in 1993, these guys were known at the time for the "Off And On" remix with Lord Finesse.  I still like the album tracks as well. 

Artist:  Roy Ayers Ubiquity
Song:  Gotta Find A Lover
Year:  1977
Album:  Lifeline

Another great sample from Roy Ayers.  Main Source created a two-bar loop using one bar from 0:00 and joining it to another bar at 0:10.  Trends Of Culture didn't actually sample the song but instead played their own interpretation of the same loop.