A hip hop geek's wet dream...

June 9, 2003 2:04 PM

A hip hop geek's wet dream... I don't know about you, but to find this site made my day. Dozens and dozens of full length songs that your favorite hip hop producers have sampled. If you can convert streaming audio to mp3, the songs are yours!
posted by Slimemonster (22 comments total)

That's a great page, thanks a lot.

You don't need to record the streams, by the way - if you sign up for an account you can download them as mp3's.
posted by influx at 2:39 PM on June 9, 2003

Regarding the streaming audio to mp3 - Total Recorder. Of course, I wonder how long this account will remain active, being that Soundclick has policy regarding copyrighted music.
posted by iamck at 2:51 PM on June 9, 2003

this place doesn't have any audio, but it is one of the best places to find out where the sample from your favorite songs come from.
posted by joedan at 2:55 PM on June 9, 2003

Very cool page. Thanks for the link Slime.
posted by Wingy at 3:09 PM on June 9, 2003

Reminds me of how back in the day, my local university station's soul/rare groove specialist, Sideshow Sid, used to give away a mixtape of rare tracks known better as samples than actual songs ("Amen Brother" by the Winstons, "God Made Me Funky", etc.) Wicked stuff.
posted by arto at 3:15 PM on June 9, 2003

vaguely ontopic: wefunkradio.com has nice funk & hip hop sets, and they let you download entire shows as regular mp3's. (see the archives.)
posted by badstone at 3:38 PM on June 9, 2003

Crate digging for the e generation.
Not like it was in my day, but you try telling that to the kids today and they wont believe you. ; )
posted by asok at 4:09 PM on June 9, 2003

The wack thing is when the only part sampled was the break. So you have a nice, normal conventional 50's song, and then it kicks into 90's dance music for 30 seconds.
posted by smackfu at 4:24 PM on June 9, 2003

I'm kinda old and creaky now, so I'm not into the latest hip-hop....but back when I listened to the radio, I remember hearing the oddest songs sampled: Kiss' "Christine Sixteen" in Tone Loc's "Funky Cold Medina", Foreigner's "Hot Blooded" in the same song; "Mary, Mary" by the Monkees in JJ Fad's "Way Out", and the weirdest of all - the song the Wayouts sang on the Flintstones sampled on the JJ Fad tune as well.
posted by Oriole Adams at 4:45 PM on June 9, 2003

totally awesome! loved hearing the "woo hah" original.
posted by jcruelty at 5:02 PM on June 9, 2003

I love "Double Dutch Bus". Great to see it acknowledged.
posted by GriffX at 7:03 PM on June 9, 2003

Or, more appropriately, 'aknowli-zedged'.
posted by GriffX at 7:04 PM on June 9, 2003

wow.. that is some dopeness...
posted by lotsofno at 7:27 PM on June 9, 2003

Oh man, there's so many Gangstarr samples there, and a saw a J-Live one. That's really fucking cool.
posted by SweetJesus at 8:53 PM on June 9, 2003

I should really read the previews. That should have been "and I saw...".
posted by SweetJesus at 8:55 PM on June 9, 2003

Thought I would jump on the bandwagon and say that the post was great. Glad to see somethin other than a link to the latest Noam Chomsky "sample"
posted by Grok09 at 9:01 AM on June 10, 2003

It's already been said, but this was an awesome link.
posted by monique at 9:35 AM on June 10, 2003

Well Allah bless you BadStone. That link just made my life. It's hard in this po-dunk town to find rare funk and hip-hop. WeFunk looks like manna to me.
posted by Dantien at 9:37 AM on June 10, 2003

That link would be good if I never knew about the breaks.
posted by LouieLoco at 11:44 AM on June 10, 2003

Hey Louie, that's another good one. Thanks!
posted by monique at 12:13 PM on June 10, 2003

Man, I had no idea the Fugees using Enya in "Ready or Not". First time I've actually dug something by Enya.
posted by Big Fat Tycoon at 2:18 PM on June 10, 2003

Looks like the dude updates his site now and then also, so check back on it sometimes.
posted by Slimemonster at 8:18 PM on June 10, 2003