Seven dope A Tribe Called Quest samples
Long live Phife Dawg
St Germain
St Germain's debut album, 'Bouvelard (The Complete Series)' is a straight classic, no doubt about it. It's jazzy deep house (seriously) at its finest and doesn't ever get old whenever it's listened to. The French producer worked in the crispy, boom bap drums of 'Push It Along' majestically, acting as a fine accompaniment of the sleazy saxophone. Jazz, hip hop and house: heaven.
DJ Marky & Makoto
Make sure you're concentrating right from the off with this one because the glistening first note of the tune is lifted from the Faith Evans-featuring 'Stressed Out'. Marky and Japanese producer Makoto entwine it into their super fresh liquid jam, keeping in Evans' polished-as-ever vocals of knowing "how it feels to be stressed out".
Gorillaz feat MF Doom
MF Doom may as well have questioned "can I flip it?" with his guest appearance on Damon Albarn and co.'s 'November Has Come'. Why? The masked rapper replicated the famous "can I kick it? Yes you can" on the animated primates' second album 'Demon Days', instead switching it to "My guess is yes you can like, can I kick it? wicked." Simple, but a sample all the same.
Jamie Trench
"Jamie Trench is the Milton Keynes producer with house jams for days," we wrote when he provided us with a mix full of his own tunes. We're a massive fan of his work - chunky beats combined with the sweetest grooves - and the bulky 'Velvet Curtains' is one of our favourites. It hits hard all the way through, chucking in Q-Tip's statement telling us "all I wanna do is get down, yo." This belter certainly makes you wanna do just that.
Groove Armada
"You know a fella's good for the moola," Q-Tip slips in on '1nce Again' from the group's fourth album 'Beats, Rhymes & Life'. Groove Armada used the lyric in 1999 feel-good track 'If Everybody Looked The Same', popping up throughout before rounding it out along with a few turntable scratches.
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