Prodigy Talks about Sampling 2Pac and Rap Beef

Remember the days of the East Coast vs West Coast beefs? When Pac was going at Biggie, Mobb Deep, Jay-Z and everybody else?

In 2007, Prodigy released his album Return of the Mac and the title track sampled 2Pac on the hook. 

The song sampled is from 2Pac's verse from the 1993 freestyle in Madison Square Garden that also featured The Notorious B.I.G. and Shyheim and Big Daddy Kane.

2Pac re-used his verse on a song called Nothing To Lose that was post-humously released on 1997's R U Still Down? (Remember Me) .

Here's an interview of Prodigy talking about sampling 2Pac and the talk about his previous beefs also come up.

The Firm's Desperados Sample - Dune by Wasis Diop

Save for a couple of tracks, The Firm's "The Album" was a pretty solid album. I never could understand why people said 'the firm flopped' according to Dr. Dre.

Maybe it was the whole "mobster concept" of the album but I found it was pretty banging. Standout tracks included the singles Firm Biz and Phone Tap as well as Five Minutes to Flush, Untouchable and the Canibus featured Desperados.

The beats were banging and you can't go wrong with lyrical giants like Nas, AZ and Nature. Foxy Brown is much better than Nicki Minaj in my opinion but...

Anyway, today's sample of the day is Desperados which samples a song called Dune by Senegalese musician, Wasis Diop. Dune is a 1993 song from the soundtrack to a Senegalese movie called Hyenes.

Desperados



Dune

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When I first created this blog, I did it because I loved listening to songs and finding connections to other songs. I wanted to put them on a blog so that others could find these same connections and we could probably discuss them.

Then I found WhoSampled.com, which I think is the best website out of the many that have sample databases. WhoSampled links the connections in much the same way I wanted to have them, allowing for discussions and also allowing you to see other connections such as covers and remixes.

I've been on WhoSampled for over a year now and it's become kind of addicting. I'm one of the top 10 contributors over there and have submitted and discovered lots of great connections.

This is the reason why Sample *Licious has been so quiet lately. You can see my submissions at WhoSampled by checking out my profile. Maybe join up as well.