CORNIEST sample use of all time?

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1. Eminem ft. Lil Wayne - "No Love"

2. T.I. ft. Rihanna - "Live Your Life"

― ლ support our troops ლ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 15:58 (2 years ago) Permalink

I'll Be Missing You.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 15:58 (2 years ago) Permalink

― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 16:08 (2 years ago) Permalink

^ probably winner

― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 16:09 (2 years ago) Permalink

no sample tho :(

― ლ support our troops ლ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 18:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

― gonjasufi smacker (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 18:09 (2 years ago) Permalink

YES

― ლ support our troops ლ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 18:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

― MarkoP, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 18:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

The works of Nitty:

― MarkoP, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 18:42 (2 years ago) Permalink

― gonjasufi smacker (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 18:44 (2 years ago) Permalink

i thought Whatcha Say was actually kind of decent sample use

― ლ support our troops ლ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 18:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

i would maybe agree with that if it wasn't appropriating a punchline from a digital short

― gonjasufi smacker (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

possibly without even knowing it

― gonjasufi smacker (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:03 (2 years ago) Permalink

i would maybe agree with that if it wasn't appropriating a punchline from a digital short
― gonjasufi smacker (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, June 8, 2010 3:01 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ugh, i always thought he just nicked an indie song, you just ruined it for me u_u

― ლ support our troops ლ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:04 (2 years ago) Permalink

oh man, until the chorus I thought that Nitty break was CCR instead of Archies and I was gonna tear into you

― ლ support our troops ლ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:07 (2 years ago) Permalink

http://www.emusic.com/album/Various-Artists-B-Boy-Records-The-Masterworks-MP3-Download/11629045.html

Tall Dark & Handsome - "When Money On The Mix"

― ლ support our troops ლ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

gr8 thread

― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

That Professor Green person.....is he for real? What in the world.......

― Sam Weller, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:13 (2 years ago) Permalink

I mean I know it's oftentimes fun to have an opinion and tell everyone how much their music is terrible and etc., but I rarely do it because I realize there must be SOMETHING redeeming for so many people to like it.

That being said: what the fuck, are these a joke? Like, everyone is always saying "no, THIS is the worst, IT'S SO BAD! WE'VE HIT ROCK BOTTOM!", but when you look back, things like Soulja Boy Tell 'Em are just painfully uninspired and mediocre. This stuff ("No Love", "Live Your Life", "Sugar") is actually embarrassing; what are these people hearing when they're tapping culturally-shunned "dorky" music and attempting to reappropriate it into the realm of integrity or thoughtfulness? And that's not to say the songs that are being sampled are bad BECAUSE they're dorky, but rather that they're dorky because not only are they too uninspired and mediocre, but also dated. And then being used as some sort of reference point---why??????

― Tori, I must seem greatly intriguing (Stevie D), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:17 (2 years ago) Permalink

this thread needs a poll. every time I think I've reached rock bottom, I click on another one and... jeeze.

― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:19 (2 years ago) Permalink

i wonder what rock bottom would be? Barbie Girl?

― ლ support our troops ლ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:24 (2 years ago) Permalink

actually the only thing possibly worse than TI doing Numa Numa would be someone flipping Chocolate Rain

― ლ support our troops ლ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:24 (2 years ago) Permalink

or the Friends theme song

― ლ support our troops ლ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:25 (2 years ago) Permalink

i'm shocked "barbie girl" hasn't already happened

this stuff accounts for a horribly large percentage of "urban" stuff that charts, at some point in the past few years people realised that a recognisable, unsubtle, super-cheesy sample will sell by the bucketload - who to, i don't like to think - and since then it's pretty much been a race to the bottom

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

imo rihanna singing the numa numa melody was fly, they flipped it and made it so pop it didn't really matter where it was from

― some dude, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:31 (2 years ago) Permalink

like probably the only person involved in the making of that song who knew about the numa dance was just blaze, and i imagine him just having fun and laughing his ass off while making it

― some dude, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:31 (2 years ago) Permalink

man the scare quotes on "urban" are like whoa dude

― ლ support our troops ლ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:39 (2 years ago) Permalink

imo rihanna singing the numa numa melody was fly, they flipped it and made it so pop it didn't really matter where it was from
― some dude, Tuesday, June 8, 2010 3:31 PM (8 minutes ago)

OTM

― ksh, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

I'm less appalled by "Live Your Life" than most of this stuff but maybe just desensitized thru repeated exposure? I guess I'll check back w/ this thread in a year or so to see whether "Young Forever" still makes my skin crawl, and we'll have our answer.

― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 20:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

"Whatcha Say" is great sample use, I agree with Whiney, and so is "Live Your Life," if only because it's just Blaze sampling fucking "Dragostea Din Tei."

Blaze isn't nearly as successful with "No Love." It's just too corny of a sample, and the flip is still a little obvious. It almost works, though.

Also, some dude, the original song was already pop, so how exactly did Rihanna flip it into pop? I think it's great, I just don't understand your statement.

― rennavate, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 20:58 (2 years ago) Permalink

Sort of love how unorganic the chorus is, and how they didn't bother to add anything to the original Heart song.

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 22:26 (2 years ago) Permalink

That beat is pretty much exactly the same as Weezy's "Something You Forgot," which is an awesome song. It literally could be the same beat. I actually like the beat, either way.

― rennavate, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 23:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

― MarkoP, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 00:13 (2 years ago) Permalink

holy fuck that is awful

― GENE PITNEY'S SWEATER BY KANDAHAR (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 01:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

ok what the fuck is that???

― For Nick Lachey, Forever Ago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 01:58 (2 years ago) Permalink

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 04:40 (2 years ago) Permalink

plastic cups don't "clink", hope these Down With Webster kids aren't counting on 'foley artists' as their back-up career plan

― on some kinda serial killer ish (sic), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 04:51 (2 years ago) Permalink

still shocked DWW didn't blow up

Timbaland says: "That group is the most amazing and creative, innovative group that’s going to come out in 2010."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_With_Webster

― Tape Store, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 05:33 (2 years ago) Permalink

― teledyldonix, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 09:22 (2 years ago) Permalink

since "Sugar" is here, might as well post "Right Round" which is almost as bad if not worse:

― i be like... ham (crüt), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 09:26 (2 years ago) Permalink

I thought we'd hit rock bottom with Nitty but Jesus fuck, who are these Down With Webster people?

― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 09:26 (2 years ago) Permalink

are there any ringtone dudes willing to rep for "Right Round" because if so, lol

― i be like... ham (crüt), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 09:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

dude

― harbly formed dn pun (zvookster), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 09:29 (2 years ago) Permalink

I may be one of ILX's biggest defenders of Dead Or Alive and Eiffel 65 btw. Possibly the only defender of Eiffel 65.

― i be like... ham (crüt), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 09:30 (2 years ago) Permalink

i wasn't around last year but the flo-rida is horrible i can't see any autogoon in good standing having something good to say for it.

― harbly formed dn pun (zvookster), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 09:34 (2 years ago) Permalink

I actually can't imagine anything dorkier than a rapper using a sample of the Friends theme song.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 09:51 (2 years ago) Permalink

that party in the Down With Webster video looks fun; not sure why they're being such pricks about it

― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 11:46 (2 years ago) Permalink

Some dude otm re: "Live Your Life" also "Changes" is superclassic (altho both admitedly colored by the fact I heard both before the sampled songs).

I liked this awesome Flo Rida track called "Ghetto Techno" that I heard before "Low" hit and then wasn't even on his album, but that's it, pretty much. Most of his hits have been fun radio jams the first dozen times I heard them but kind of intolerable afterwards.

― fuck being hard, suburbs are complicated (The Reverend), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 11:55 (2 years ago) Permalink

rev, iirc you gave either/both of "sugar" and "right round" good reviews on the jukebox?

first flo rida thing i ever heard was also an awesome track that didn't end up on the album called "birthday". will also rep for "low" and "in the ayer" but he's been reprehensible since he discovered eurocheese samples.

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 11:58 (2 years ago) Permalink

Didn't review "Right Round". Said this about "Sugar":

I have no idea whether or when this will start to get on my nerves, but what occurs to me in the meantime is that the great thing about Flo is how completely unabashed of a sellout he is. He makes no bones of his pop-ness, because it ain’t no thang to him. I get the impression that the T.I.s of the world at least feel an appropriate measure of pious embarassment when attempting to pull off shit like this.
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As it turned out, "whether" was "yes" and "when" was "soon".

― fuck being hard, suburbs are complicated (The Reverend), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 12:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 12:04 (2 years ago) Permalink

That "Tiny Dancer" sample is epic lex you are so wrong

― If it's not hurting, you're not lurking (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 12:19 (2 years ago) Permalink

That beat is pretty much exactly the same as Weezy's "Something You Forgot," which is an awesome song. It literally could be the same beat. I actually like the beat, either way.

someone explain to rennavate how mixtapes work

― ლ support our troops ლ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 13:15 (2 years ago) Permalink

the bruce hornsby sample in "Changes" is one of the few samples of totally corny sample choice actually turning out totally dope

― ლ support our troops ლ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 13:16 (2 years ago) Permalink