Best Beatjack on Ice Cube's "Jackin' For Beats" poll

sorry, that's: James Brown - Funky Drummer

you gotz to chill works best IMO

ttt

buzzsaw pwns

THE TURTLES SUE OVER ICE CUBE SONG
American rock group THE TURTLES are suing their former label Capitol Records for breach of contract and copyright infringement, after a song they claim to have written was sampled by rapper ICE CUBE in 1990.
The Turtles' founding members Mark 'Flo' Volman and Howard 'Eddie' Kaylan, otherwise known as Flo & Eddie, claim executives at Capitol reneged on an agreement to pay royalties for the use of their song Buzzsaw - which appeared in part on Ice Cube's Jackin' For Beats, from his EP Kill At Will.
In legal papers obtained by website TMZ.com and filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday (13May08), Volman and Kaylan allege they entered a deal with Capitol bosses in December 1990 regarding Buzzsaw, which covered royalty payments for the track.
However, the pair claim they have not received anything from Capitol, despite the release of various albums and compilations featuring Ice Cube's version of the track in the years since 1990.
The duo, best known for The Turtles' 1967 hit Happy Together, are seeking a minimum of $25,000 (£12,500) in damages - and have placed a maximum settlement figure of $70,000 (£35,000) on their complaint.

takin out you suckas and you dont know how i did it

I was SUUUUPER into that D-Nice song when "Jackin' For Beats" first came out, so that will always be the best one for me.

i thought you were like my age

I'm 28.

like every assignment i turned into school from like 1988 to 1991 was about rap.

I love 'em all, of course, but I think I may go for "Humpty Dance" since it incorporates the jacked beat into his flow at the moment the track switches up, plus the line about the brothers with the funny haircuts.

The use of "Terrordome" is too, too funny.

you gotz to chill works best IMO

^^^

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In a better world, someone would remake this song every six months or so.

lolz I wish!

there's lots of mixtape versions of it, which i wanted to collect, but got lazy

If you can find any of those on your hard drive, I'd love to hear 'em.

yeah me too

Sticky Fingaz - Jackin For Beats 1999

Busta Rhymes - Jackin For Beats 2008

TI -Jackin For Beats

What, Heed the Word of the Brother is totally the best of these!

Awesome, now I need to learn to rip mp3s from youtube.

Or google up extant mp3s or something.

what is the sample source at 1:11

it's been used in a bunch of other songs but it's driving me crazy that I can't identify it

You talking about the beat from Billy Squier's Big Beat or the sample from EPMD's You Gotz to Chill?

sorry it's neither of those. I mean the loop that runs from around 0:55 through 1:17 or so (when the Big Beat sample comes in)

Ahh. Just realized the EPMD song that I found that it sampled for that part was a different one that the one mentioned in the poll:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKIJoLQLT5E

The guitar in the EPMD song is sampled from BT Express:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPKHg1Qbv_Y

ah!

yes

I have that record

many thx

LOVE, LOVE "Jackin' for Beats", totally would have voted for the "Terrordome" beat jack if I'd registered when this poll was created.

I always loved that the "Kill At Will" EP was also released in a clean version (called just "At Will"!) with a different tracklist and some different lyrics and takes.