Maestro Fresh Wes - Another Funky Break (From My Pap's Crate) (1992) sampled The Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Hummin' (1970)

Artist:  Maestro Fresh Wes
Song:  Another Funky Break (From My Pap's Crate)
Year:  1992
Album:  Maestro Zone

I recently had the honour of meeting Maestro Fresh Wes and the guy is a class act.  One of the most underrated lyricists, period.  Before Jay-Z, Nas, Biggie and others, this guy was at the top of the game.

Artist:  Da King & I
Song:  This Is How We Do
Year:  1993
Album:  Contemporary Jeep Music

Every song on this album could wind up on this blog. 

Artist:  3rd Bass
Song:  Green Eggs And Swine
Year:  1991
Album:  Derelicts Of Dialect

The summer of 1991 was non-stop 3rd Bass in my neighbourhood. 

Artist:  The Cannonball Adderley Quintet
Song:  Hummin'
Year:  1970
Album:  Country Preacher - "Live" At Operation Breadbasket

I still like Jazz as my foundation for Hip Hop.  Maestro Fresh Wes used the horns at 1:22 for his chorus.  Da King & I used the same sample.  3rd Bass used the one-bar loop from 0:03 for their song and added the four bars of horns from 0:11.

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.

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.

Showbiz & A.G. - Bounce Ta This (1992) sampled Buster Williams - The Hump (1975)

Artist:  Showbiz & A.G.
Song:  Bounce Ta This
Year:  1992
Album:  Runaway Slave

With Dres of Black Sheep on the track, this is one of my favourites from the era.

Artist:  A Tribe Called Quest
Song:  Mr. Incognito
Year:  1994
Album:  Not Officially Released in 1994

I believe it was 1994 when I heard this song on the radio.  Since it wasn't released officially at the time, I assumed it was on a white label 12-inch single.  This song also appears on the album shown in the picture, a compilation released in 2003 called Hits, Rarities & Remixes. Fugees (Tranzlator Crew) also used the bassline occasionally in "Nappy Heads". 

Artist:  Buster Williams
Song:  The Hump
Year:  1975
Album:  Pinnacle

I still like Jazz bass for Hip Hop.  Showbiz & A.G. used the one-bar loop that starts at 7:10.  A Tribe Called Quest used the two-bar loop starting at 0:40.

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.

Mic Geronimo - Unstoppable (1997) sampled Marvin Gaye - Poor Abbey Walsh (1972)

Artist:  Mic Geronimo
Song:  Unstoppable
Year:  1997
Album:  Vendetta

This track was produced by Pete Rock.  I thought this was a great sample from the first time I heard it.

Artist:  Kool G Rap
Song:  Foul Cats
Year:  1998
Album:  Roots Of Evil

Top 10 Emcee on the same sample but in this track the pieces are chopped up.

Artist:  Marvin Gaye
Song:  Poor Abbey Walsh
Year:  1972
Album:  Trouble Man Motion Picture Soundtrack (OST)

There are so many Marvin Gaye samples but this one is different from all the others because it was for a movie soundtrack.  The four-bar loop sampled for Mic Geronimo is at 3:35.  Kool G Rap used the same sample but rearranged the pieces.