Best I Ever Had is Falling In Love

Listening to Drake's Best I Ever Had, I knew there had to be a sample in there. That melody is so groovy its addicting.



Hip hop has helped me discovered some of the music my parents used to listen to and I really love that 70's soul music.

Best I Ever Had samples Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynold's Fallin' In Love which was a #1 hit in 1975 on Billboard's adult contemporary charts. It was the groups biggest hit.

Baby Come Home - Willie Hutch is Back Like That

Y'all know Willie Hutch. No?

Well you've been hearing his pimpilicious music all over hip hop for years. Willie's the man behind 70s classics like "The theme from The Mack".

Here's a tune you'll instantly recognize. Its called Baby Come Home.



And Wu Tang's Ghostface Killa bought it Back Like That on his 2006 album Fishscale. The song also featured Ne-Yo on the hook which also sampled JayZ's Song Cry.

Mattafix Cools Down the Pace with Gregory Isaacs

Not much as sample as it is a cover. Although based in the UK, Mattafix has roots in the country where I came from so the culture was bound to be a part of their music.

Their new single, Cool Down the Pace is a relaxing reggae joint that many reggae heads will recognize immediately.



Of course if you don't recognize it, the original version of Cool Down the Pace was done by the legendary Gregory Isaacs on his classic 1982 offering, Night Nurse.

Shaggy meets the Delfonics

Amazing song by Shaggy as he gets in touch with his softer side (again). His first single off his ninth studio album is Bad Man (Don't Cry).



Bad Man borrows from the classic 1968 song La La La Means I Love You by Delfonics.



Wow. Just cant get enough of either.

Something In Common with Bobby Caldwell's Open Your Eyes

Was just browsing around on twitter and one thing led to another. Before you know it, I'm on sweet Caribbean poet, Carmelite Souffront's blog.

That's how I got inspired to do this post. I know...been a while.

Remember Common's The Light?

The Light @ Yahoo! Video

Great song. Classic hip hop.

It's sampled from Bobby Caldwell's Open Your Eyes which is also a classic song.

Q Tip Gettin Up on Black Ivory

Some classic soul for ya. Its Black Ivory with their song You and I.



Ah what sweet music.

QTip bought it back with his new song Gettin Up with was co produced by JDilla. Beautiful music makes more beautiful music.


Gettin Up - Q-Tip

Gettin' Up is from Tip's new album The Renaissance which will be available Tuesday.

Illmatic Samples - Life's A Bitch/The World is Yours

Life's a Bitch was AZ's spectacular introduction to the world and he killed it on the track. Nas' father, Olu Dara also collaborated with Nas on the song for the first time.

Life's A Bitch was produced by L.E.S.



The beat for the song was sampled from The Gap Band's Yearning for Your Love.

The Gap Band - Yearning For Your Love -

Real Soul. Real Hip Hop.

The World is Yours

This is my favorite joint off Illmatic. It was produced by Pete Rock.

This is the same song Jay Z sampled on Dead Presidents where he later dissed Nas about how 'you made it a hot line/I made it a hot song.'

Nas ft Pete Rock The World Is Yours
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I'm out for dead presidents to represent me...

The World is Yours samples an the voice of T La Rock on his song Its Yours.



It also samples jazz pianist, Ahmad Jamal's I Love Music. I couldn't find a video for this one but I found something you should love. It starts off with the Nas sample from Ahmad Jamal and then some other great samples. Enjoy.



Look for tomorrows installment where we will continue the Illmatic series with One Love.