Mad Sample makes a Mad Beat

Ok music fans here is another stroke of genius. and you know it is really good when the music is replicated because it is just so good. In this case the beat has been used quite a few times, a real head nodder, here is the first two most famous Jay Z "Where Im from"

More recently featured in Diddy's and his new group Dirty Money "Angels" updated and dressed up but it is still the stripped down smooth beat.

Where does that beat come from I asked myself and the answer was another mad moment, the core of the beat comes from a really old song, let Your Hair Down by Yvonne Fair. What is even more impressive is the small sample (4 seconds in total ) that has been amplified and mastered into a classic beat. check out the beat at the 0:54-0:58.


How did they hell find that break beat and turn it in to something so much more.... that is mad genius.

Mad Catchy Hook

Here is a classic hip hop song with a real jazzy dance vibe featuring Nate Dogg, Ghostface Killa and an uncredited underground rapper Saigon later seen in the HBO series Entourage. But wait the mad genius is not only in the hypnotic catchy hook and the chorus, but the beat is really infectious
the Mad Genius is in the beat which is based on an equally funky little known Boney M song called Sunny .. check it out and peep the dance moves they were probably hip for back then.

Fun fact the four original members of the group's official line-up were Jamaicans Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett, Maizie Williams from Montserrat and Bobby Farrell from Aruba