josh -
the NWA lyric & yr quote is correct. The artist is William DeVaughn,
only short term memory loss and a crap record filing system prevent
me from giving you the title of the track.
The lyric goes "diamond in the back, sunroof top, kickin it lean like
a ganster machine.... so of course it makes sense that NWA would
boost up a ref like this.
"White Lines" by Grandmaster Flash was a complete rip of "The Cavern"
a little jazz funktual instrumental on 99 records as you correctly
refer to it as beat-jacking which it was...Even Afrikaa Bambaattaa
would fess to the influence of Kraftwerk Depeche Mode & Arthur Bakers
remix work on New Order..
w:
But take for example NWA's song Eight Ball -- they
use a line from an old soul record about the "Diamond in the back, sunroof
top" or something ( i have no idea who the artist is or if those are the
actual lyrics ) ... anyway I think the way they worked the little
reference to the song into the music is very creative, especially if you
recognize the fact that when they would play the song live, there was
actually a DJ dropping the actual phrase in from the original record as
part of the song.
Recognize also that the art of sampling and beat-jacking comes from the
early days of hip hop when DJ's would create an entire track from using
other artist's records, in real time on two turntables. This was not for
lack of creativity, but for lack of funds and technology as many of the
originators of hip hop did not have the cash resources to purchase "real
instruments" and were inspired to make do with the tools at hand.
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http://www.worldtimezone.com
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