Oooh I know that Sample!

Ahh yes, I'm excited about our next Installment of Instant Funk at AC Lounge! We feel very blessed to do another event and to be able to play the stuff we love/like!

For this post, i'd like to talk about samples. Mainly, funk samples that were used on the more familiar hiphop/r&b songs that we hear on the radio (or your playlist). It is true that most hiphop/r&b songs use jazz samples, but I would like to focus more on the 70's funk. Here's a taste of 70's funk songs that were sampled.



Funkadelic - Nappy Dugout
Sampling Artist - A Tribe Called Quest - Ham and Eggs

*I am digging Funkadelic on this one, ATCQ used alot of funk samples on their albums so this is a prime example.



Parliament - Mothership Connection
Dr. Dre - Let Me Ride

*Dre loves his funk samples, Let Me Ride seems like an updated version of the Parliament track, but I'm sticking with Mothership Connection



Chi-Lites - Are You My Woman
Beyonce ft. Jay - Crazy In Love

*This is a very catchy loop for the Beyonce track, people go nuts when they hear this and think its the live band version of Crazy In Love. Nope, this is the original



Steely Dan - Black Cow
Peter Gunz n Lord Tariq - Deja Vu
Tatyana Ali - "Daydreamin'"

*Steely Dan filed a major lawsuit against Peter Gunz for this one, but then Deja Vu made Steely Dan rich in my mind. Black Cow is on that slow funk groovy tip. I would also rock Daydreamin any day, good job Ashley!



Chaka Khan and Rufus - Do you love what you feel
Camron - Rockin and Rollin

*I posted this just to say that 'J Dupri how could you?!' haha. This track should not even be sampled at all. Just leave it the way it is

Slowed up Funk


The Whispers - You are Number one
Visionaries - Blessings

*Big fan of both Whispers and Blessings by Visionaries. Can't go wrong with both.



The Whispers - And The Beat Goes on
Will Smith - Miami

*Ending this segment with this track. This is on my PQ Nights mix that I did back in 05 (cop it accesshiphop.com or freshcrate.com!) I love me some funk disco steez. I cant get mad when people hear this and they go 'Welcome to Miami'.