The same way hip-hop has gratuitously borrowed from every other genre of music imaginable, R&B eventually began borrowing from hip-hop (which, in some cases, was really just borrowing their shit back). It started with New Jack Swing in the late-’80s, then continued with the Hip-Hop Soul era around ’92-’93. By the time we got to the late ’90s, every other R&B artist out there was singing over tracks that had been big on the rap scene in the ’80s.
Hence this entry, “The ’90s Loved The ’80s: Never Come Wack On An Old School Track”. There were many more instances than these five of course; nonetheless, I’m goin’ innnnn…
Montell Jordan “This Is How We Do It” (1995) sampled Slick Rick “Children’s Story” (1988): In ’88, Slick Rick was the newest star on the Def Jam label and scored a classic with his debut album, The Great Adventures of Slick Rick. By early ’95, Def Jam was in a slight slump and Rick was locked up. As Rick’s third album Behind Bars was bricking like crazy, one of his great records from seven years prior helped create a new star on Def Jam- Montell Jordan. Montell’s Rick-esque rap inflections were all kinds of corny, but he def. pulled a hit out of the bag. “Gotta get your groove on!”
Allure feat. Nas “Head Over Heels” (1996) sampled MC Shan “The Bridge” (1986): One usually doesn’t think of hip-hop music from the Queensbridge Houses of Queens, New York and get reminded of Mariah Carey‘s short-lived Crave label. But in ’96, she was putting her chips on a girl group named Allure. Their lead single (with Queens’ own Nas on the assist) lifted “The Bridge”, a classic by MC Shan- a song which is not only one of the most recognizable old school hip-hop beats, but also unintentionally started a feud known as The Bridge Wars.
Total feat. Da Brat “No One Else” (1996) sampled Boogie Down Productions “South Bronx” (1986): Speaking of the Bridge Wars… “South Bronx” was the song that set it off, with KRS-One goin’ at Shan in response to “The Bridge”. 10 years after that feud got kicked off, Bad Boy Records was in one of its own with Death Row Records. In the midst of all that, Puffy & co. continued making hits- one of them being this one by Total.
Christion “Midnight X-ta-C” (1997) sampled Beastie Boys “Paul Revere” (1986): For anything good to be said about Roc-A-Fella Records… that label in no way/shape/form EVER had a strength in managing R&B artists. At least Christion got an album out, though (and a good one at that). “Midnight X-ta-C” is probably best known as the song that plays while two strippers dyke it out on Streets Is Watching, but it’s also notable for using a Beastie Boys classic from their Licensed To Ill album. “Paul Revere”, with its unique reverse-beat, is one of the Beasties’ most revered (yeah, pun intended) from Licensed.
Shai feat. Jay-Z “I Don’t Wanna Be Alone (Remix)” (1996) sampled Biz Markie “Nobody Beats The Biz” (1987): ’96 was an epic year in both hip-hop and R&B. It represented new sounds/styles/artists coming in, while others were going out, and they all kinda met up in the course of that year. Take this song for example- Shai had run their course for the most part, while Jay was still “new” on the scene and building his profile. This remix is produced by Marley Marl, who also did Biz’s theme song from ’87.
NEXT MONTH: “The ’90s Loved The ’80s” asks just how many times and ways the Isley Brothers‘ classic “Between The Sheets” could be used to create a hot song between ’90 and ’95. Possibly more than you think.
-D!
Imo, in most times r&b borrowed from hip hop the beat would outshine the artist. That’s why i think “this is how we do it” became a hit, because montell “competed” with the track if you get me…but i agree the lyrics were rather corny lol
sidebar: on the shai/jay track, not to rile up the stans but what happened to jay’s flow?
You have a point there… I’d say nobody strongarmed them tracks like MJB did.
Sometimes though, the sampling of those tracks couldn’t even save the songs- you ever hear the En Vogue joint with the “Sucker MCs” beat? Bleeeehhhhh…
-D!
huge fan of that christion record
^^^^ That was me
Yeah man… that song and the album. I was late pickin’ up on that album, but yeah man.
Def. a situation of great music, wrong label.
-D!
Total? Damn, I totally miss them!!! Quick trivia, the skinniest one (Kima I think)lil sister is Vita from Murder Inc circa 2000. She actually went to Morgan State before the It’s Murrrda movement and suckin DMX off in Belly
Yo… Total had a lotta heat for real, short-lived as they were. That first album is a personal fav. of mine.
And yep, that was Kima’s lil’ sis. Vita, Vita, Vita. Haha.
-D!
too bad they couldn’t really sing (be real danj) lol
HAHA… I can be real about that… they were never gonna be crowned as some second coming of En Vogue or nothin’ like that, lol. But they did manage to pump some quality songs out tho’. I think they had decent-enough voices to pull off the songs they sang… if they had to really go there on some ballad-type shit, it def. woulda been a problem, lol.
-D!
One of those chicks from Total is married to Omar Epps!
*forgot which one tho lmao
-thehoustongirl
Uh-huh… the lead one, Keisha… lucky bastard, that Omar is. I used to see her in that ‘No One Else’ video and wanna bite that lil’ baby thigh.
-D!
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