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This is a dumb question, but where is that sample from? I can't find an answer on the net; there's hundreds of uses of the phrase, but I guess everyone figures everyone else knows the referent.

― Aaron Mandel, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Cookie Puss" by the Beastie Boys

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmm, I thought it was on "Buffalo Girls", but either way isn't a sample on those records as well? As though it was from something much older...

― Sean, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm pretty sure it's Malcolm McLaren/the World's Famous Supreme Team. At least it seems to be the same voice as the radio caller (named something like Shara or Sharon) on "World's Famous": "The way y'all play your music, the way you talk--I like the way you talk."

― Douglas, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i always get malcolm mclaren confused with marshall mcluhan.

― ethan, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Y'know, Sean -- you're right. I was thinking of the line: "These pussy crumbs are making me itch/Maybe I should scratch..." from "Cookie Puss."

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, definitely from the world famous supreme team record

― Ron Hudson, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yep bang on - it's from 'duck rock' by malcolm mclaren. it's one of the great in-between-the-songs bits that took on some life of their own in the mid 80's being sampled and quoted everywhere. they were off the world's famous supreme team radio show broadcast in the states (NY only ?). there's that other great bit where that girl keeps saying 'you know it... you know it...yeah you know it...' in response to every question she's asked, and that one where the dj asks 'little she' "so how come you're still up at 4 in the mornin..." and she says "too much of that snow white..."

― piscesboy, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My favorite sample from that World Famous Supreme Team thing is the "Brow-brown-brow-brownsville." Hearing that in other records, for years I thought they were saying rap-rap-rap-rap.

― Chris H., Sunday, 24 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

does anyone know where "fresh" and "aah" come from?

― never acid again, Thursday, 21 August 2008 09:49 (seventeen years ago)

May as well turn this into a generic thread: where does that "For my next song, I'd like to return to the classics" sample come from?

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Thursday, 21 August 2008 09:53 (seventeen years ago)

Liberace via De La Soul ("Plug Tunin'").

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 21 August 2008 09:56 (seventeen years ago)

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Thursday, 21 August 2008 09:59 (seventeen years ago)

"This stuff is really fresh" comes from the end of the B-side of Fab 5 Freddy's "Change The Beat": a Bill Laswell production on Celluloid.

― mike t-diva, Thursday, 21 August 2008 10:33 (seventeen years ago)

cheers!

― never acid again, Thursday, 21 August 2008 11:13 (seventeen years ago)

where did 'say kids what time is it' and 'f.a.b. children what does it all mean' come from?

― piscesx, Thursday, 21 August 2008 11:21 (seventeen years ago)

Respectively, It's Howdy Doody Time and Mayor LaGuardia.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 21 August 2008 12:15 (seventeen years ago)

Okay, while in the De La mode, there is a sample of a slightly speeded up comedian saying 'has anyone in the audience ever been hit by a car?' is that Bob Newhart? Woody Allen?

― MaresNest, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:24 (seventeen years ago)

The quote "Has anyone in the audience ever been hit by a car?" Is Eddie Murphy from Raw

from google.

― Mark G, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:33 (seventeen years ago)

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