11 songs you didn’t know sample other songs

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Sampling has become increasingly popular over the last few decades and this means that many of the most well known songs of the era are actually extensively based on other older, less well-known songs. So today we are going to take a look at 11 songs based on samples of older records.

📌1:50 I said "Summertime Madness" by Kool and The Gang, when the correct title is "Summer Madness". Sorry for any confusion caused and thanks to the commenters who brought it to my attention.

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0:00 Introduction
0:19 Beyoncé
1:34 Will Smith
3:13 Chic
4:04 Tom Tom Club
4:54 Barry White
5:35 Firestarter
6:42 Groove Is In The Heart
10:30 Patreon

[DavidBennettPiano]

📌1:50 I said "Summertime Madness" by Kool and The Gang, when the correct title is "Summer Madness". Sorry for any confusion caused and thanks to the commenters who brought it to my attention.

[CarolinaMama]

Mary J. Blige also sampled Barry White's It's Ecstacsy When You Lay Down Next To Me. She is also a 90's R&B artist. A plethora of Hip Hop and R&B artists have sampled 50's, 60's, and 70's music. I really enjoyed this video ! I learned a lot that I didn't know about. Great work:)

[moonprincesst.s.h.ever]

The Men in Black song plays during the movie's closing credits and samples Forget Me Nots by Patrice Rushen (1982, ) Will Smith's Wild, Wild West samples 1976 hit song "I Wish" and includes parts of the chorus from Kool Moe Dee's song of the same name.

[novawax]

Groove is in the heart is one of my all time favourites. Beck samples Grrove is in the heart in his song Nicotine & Gravy.

[MarkLapasa]

David, you've completey uprooted my entire musical childhood. Crazy insights behind the history of instrumentals I grew up with.

[SkyzThLimitt]

Excellent video. Being a music producer myself for the last 30 years, I knew most of these and others not mentioned using the same sample. But I def learned something on some of the uses. “Groove Is In The Heart” in particular. Well done!

[JayForeman]

Butterfly by Crazy Town and Steal My Sunshine by Len. Both of those are examples of songs I didn’t know included samples. And when I heard the originals, I couldn’t help but feel a bit sad and cheated.

[Gappasaurus]

Been fascinated with sampling since the ‘80s and one of my all-time favorite examples of perfectly-layered long-form samples is 1989’s “What U Waitin’ 4?” by the Jungle Brothers. Aside from multiple incidental samples, the rhythm, melody, and percussion throughout are from three separate songs and work together seamlessly 🥰
Other songs have used just as many samples or more, but few seem to belong together and groove so well as this. I’ll let you unpack what the source tracks were, but would love to see it covered in a future video 😁

[ricochetsixtyten]

The interesting thing about the Bar-Kays sample is that its actually not fully in tune with the beat but slightly sharp, which gives it a bit more tension. Cool little detail.

[trevorgordonofficial]

Dee-lite creation is brilliant. It reminds me of the De La Soul Album 3 feet and rising...

[robertbuckley]

"Miami" by Will Smith was based on the sample of "And The Beat Goes On" by The Whispers, "Steal My Sunshine" by Len was based on the sample of "More, More, More" by The Andrea True Connection, "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)" by Spiller feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor is based on the sample of "Love Is You" by Carol Williams, "My, My, My" by Armand Van Helden was based on the sample of "Comin' Apart" by Gary Wright and "Robot Rock" by Daft Punk was based on the sample of "Release The Beast" by Breakwater which I also remembered I might not have known.

[jansenmccloud]

without the sampling we wouldn't be here and listen to those goldies. thank you for creating this video ❤

[gab_v]

Two other Chic songs have been sampled in other famous songs:
- Le Freak -> Modjo - Chillin'
- Good Times -> Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight

[TheSmallTownExlorer]

Fantastic breakdown. I was not aware of the multiple samples for "Groove is in the Heart." Thanks for that. Subbed.

[mazda]

Groove is in the Heart is such a wacky song and I had *NO* idea it had all of those samples. Some of those deep cuts feel so unnecessary, but they come together to make such a fun song, and I definitely appreciate their efforts.

[phillip]

Thank you for your incisive and detailed description of sampled songs, it is so informative.

[internetuser]

You could make an hour-long video about Daft Punk's use of sampling alone.

[Rascaduanok]

Absolutely loving the breakdown of samples in Groove is in the Heart!

[MrArpSolina]

For their debut album Since I Left You, released in 2000, The Avalanches allegedly used 3, 500 samples in total across its 18 tracks. We say 'allegedly' because even the duo of Darren Seltmann and Robbie Chater, the core of the band at the time, weren't sure of the number of samples.

[jkrissyla]

I actually learned most of these from a podcast called 60 Songs to Explain the 90’s. But you definitely went into more detail.