A much needed Black Music thread.

[Midnight Hammer]

Best black music video ever.

 

[Midnight Hammer]

 

[Midnight Hammer]

 

[xmontrealer]

A little bit of lovers' reggae

 

[xmontrealer]

Biblical ska...

 

[K Douglas]

I'm pretty sure I've posted this before but worth another mention. Here is the sample RZA used for Bring the Pain. One of my favorite Ice Man songs. Sample kicks in at the 3 minute mark.

 

[ogibowt]

finally back to normalcy lol.

 

[eddie kerr]

Original titled "Mexican Reggae", this 70s rock band's attempt at a reggae song turned out pretty good for them.

So many great hit songs most of which I get that Peaceful Easy Feeling listening to them.

 

[K Douglas]

Irish R&B singer Laura Izibor's big hit was "From My Heart to Yours" but she had a few really good tunes. This was one of them. Definitely underappreciated.

"Shine"

 

[K Douglas]

Nice chill hip hop from the 2000's. Blu & Exile dropped their debut LP 'Below the Heavens' in 2007. I dig the usage of the strings in the production. The vocal samples of M.O.P. and Common were dope too.

"So(ul) Amazin"

 

[K Douglas]

Salute the Sample is my favorite show on LL Cool J's Rock the Bells radio on Sirius/XM. This one explained a lot for me

I always thought that Jennifer Lopez's "Get Right" didn't give sample credit to Maceo & the Macks "Soul Power '74". But they didn't sample it directly, they sampled a song by Usher that sampled it.

So here's the original from Maceo & the Macks. Produced by James Brown.

Rich Harrison produced Usher's "Ride" in 2004 but it was left off his Confessions LP for some reason.

So instead he took the beat and used it on Jennifer Lopez's hit "Get Right" the next year.

 

[K Douglas]

My favorite sample of Soul Power '74 is this though. My man Schoolly D

"Am I Black Enough For You" (1989)

 

[xmontrealer]

From the soundtrack of the latest season of "The Bear", which also includes a lot of Spector and Ronettes songs...

 

[ogibowt]

From the soundtrack of the latest season of "The Bear", which also includes a lot of Spector and Ronettes songs...

Inspired by James Brown,s Try Me ?

 

[Sonic Temple]

Damn - found this going down a rabbit hole - so calming.

 

[ogibowt]

C&W meets Soul......you could just feel the comraderie between these two singers.....a Video of sheer joy....

 

[K Douglas]

In the music industry, does the original artist get a cut from this? I'm assuming they don't because it would become really hard to track samples of samples? If someone came along and sampled that portion of Lopez's song, it would become a sample, of a sample, of the original sample lol

I'd be lying if I knew exactly how it works but these days you need to get sample clearance or risk being sued. Back in the 80's and 90's that didn't happen as much. If it did the Estate of James Brown would be significantly wealthier.
In this instance it was the same producer who likely had the rights to the music. Rich Harrison created the track for Usher and it wasn't commercially released. So he ended up using the same production for Jennifer Lopez.

 

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[ogibowt]

Sonic Temple streamed the Album At Last a few days ago.....i just caught up to that thread ....this is one of the songs....Ettaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa