I Wanna Know What Love is - Sampled and Covered

Mariah Carey recently did her version of Foreigner's '80s power ballad I Wanna Know What Love Is. Good cover of a great song. The song can be found on her latest album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel.





I love the original by Foreigner and even have it in a playlist somewhere. I don't think any cover of this song comes close to the original.



Know what I love most though?

When genres cross. Check under the radar reggae/dancehall artist Terro 3000 sample called In My Life as he remembers a fallen soldier.



Speaking of crossing genres, reggae and fallen soldiers, slain South African artist Lucky Dube also recorded a version of the song in 1997 for his album Taxman.



R.I.P Lucky Dube.

And for the reason I did this post...The Chipmunks covered the song on the soundtrack to their new movie The Squeakquel.

Check out the trailer featuring the original version by Foreigner.

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.