Around The World in ONE Legendary Hip Hop Sample

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Today, we’re going to cover a lot of ground, by way of this song, “Genius of Love” by Tom Tom Club. I’ll go ahead and tell you everywhere that we’re going, but you’ll have to see how we get there. We’re gonna talk about Tom Tom Club, sure, but then also Zapp, Common, Paul Simon, J Dilla, ACDC, Grandmaster Flash, The Talking Heads, Kurtis Blow, Fela Kuti, and just when we can’t go any deeper, we’re gonna loop it back and around and connect the whole thing together.
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TOPICS COVERED
Tom Tom Club
Sample
Chris Frantz
Tina Weymouth
Genius of Love
Mariah Carey
Return of the Mack
Talking Heads
Grandmaster Flash
Remain in Light
Fela Kuti
Kurtis Blow
#musichistory #hiphop #talkingheads

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@diggingthegreats Месяц назад

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@grantbacon4471 Месяц назад

Stop Making Sense is one of the best concert documentaries I’ve ever seen.

@wowmedialtd Месяц назад

I was going to say the same thing. Even if you're a die-hard B-boy, go track it down. It even starts with a tapedeck playing an 808 loop.

@Bronn92 Месяц назад

Best live album ever

@dza1988 Месяц назад

Best ever, full of freatest songs!

@wietzejohanneskrikke1910 Месяц назад

Directed by Jonathan Demme, who also did Silence of the Lambs, which features music by J.S. Bach, who is immensely influential on western music and thereby hiphop, funk, etc.

@fishgutt242 Месяц назад

The best anyone has ever seen :P

@maxptah Месяц назад

Don't apologize for constantly mentioning Dilla, ever!!!!

@CantTellYou Месяц назад

He makes NO apologies for that!

@concept8407 Месяц назад

Never ever ever!!!!!!

@chuckaudio3191 Месяц назад

@@concept8407 Gimmie a chopped beat on rhyme the Dilla way!

@Jacqueal Месяц назад

De La and Redman had two of the best "Genius" flips I've ever heard.

@RenR70 Месяц назад

The first samples I remember are “It’s Nasty” by Grandmaster Flash & the furious 5 & “Genius Rap” by Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.

@DonTheking Месяц назад

“Genius Rap” motivated Sylvia Robinson to have Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five make “It’s Nasty”

@OurBlackEmpowerment Месяц назад

Ase' that!

@colonialstraits1069 Месяц назад

David’s “solo project” was the collaboration with Brian Eno ‘My Life in the Bush of Ghosts’, an album that’s as worthy of a deep dive. ‘Remain in Light’ is Talking Head’s best album. Still sounds fresh today.

@jonothanthrace1530 Месяц назад

How do you do a deep dive on a single album?

@Bronn92 Месяц назад

The first two albums of Tom Tom Club are pretty good, a really interesting mix of funk, new wave and early hip hop. The album David Byrne made with Brian Eno was a great album too, really experimental. But the ones that I think are essential in music history are Remain in Light and Stop Making Sense. Just two of the better albums (one a studio album, the other a live album) of the 20th century in any genre. Keep in mind that Talking Heads were one of the main bands of late 70s/early 80s New York rock scene, in which punk and new wave were born, and a lot of this bands were in good terms with Hip Hop artists from that time. This guys were very open minded and their music reflexed that.

@stephenstrussvideo Месяц назад

Nothing makes my Friday workday better like some new DTG

@cloudbloom Месяц назад

The mariah track fantasy is suuuuuuuch a fresh jam. Still holds up today

@BYSON-LEE Месяц назад

Sounds outdated to me

@moon-ry8bb Месяц назад

Nah you just old af 😂 @@BYSON-LEE

@BYSON-LEE Месяц назад

@@moon-ry8bb I'm like 20

@RastaSaiyaman Месяц назад

If you had mentioned Adrian Belew's involvement with both Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, you could have put in links to even more artists. * Because Belew played guitar for Frank Zappa and toured with him before he was recruited by... * David Bowie, who needed a guitarist for the "Heroes" tour when it came out that... * Robert Fripp who played on the album couldn't be booked to do the tour. So having seen Belew do his thing on the Bowie tour, he was approached by... * David Byrne, who wanted a fresh set of ears and eyes on the "Remain in light" sessions. Belew's crazy stunt guitar can be heard most clearly in "I zimbra" and "the great curve" where he also shares lead vocals with Byrne. Which led to Belew touring with the Talking Heads and getting the call from * Tina Wymouth and Chris Frantz, to play on the Tom Tom Club's album. And to ask him to replace... David Byrne in Talking heads, since everybody was getting fed up with him. Belew declined because he was already asked by ... * Robert Fripp, to start a new band called Discipline, which later changed their name to Fripp's earlier band... * King Crimson So, yeah, shame you didn't mention Adrian Belew's involvement here.

@reimourrpower9357 Месяц назад

For that matter mention keyboard genius Bernie Worrell who played electric piano on "Genius of Love" and toured with TH. And of course was a founding member of the incredible *Parliament-Funkadelic* bands.

@sjb3240 Месяц назад

In 1990, X-Clan had the best version of the sample for In The Ways of the Scale.

@oleg_samples Месяц назад

The best samples bring generations together. A great example my friend 😎👍🏼

@FreekaPista Месяц назад

You are cementing yourself as one of the greatest musical historians on the internet - I love the stories you choose to tell and the succinct and fulfilling manner in whixh you manage to tell them 🙌

@charlescdt6509 Месяц назад

Tina W is a beast on the bass and needs more love. Good stuff as always.

@diggingthegreats Месяц назад

Agreed! 🔥

@DeepSweetSoulful Месяц назад

Fela's my fav artist all time, it's beautiful to see him continue to get the recognition of his genious creativity 50 years later 🙌

@TheBearAspirin Месяц назад

I always thought Tina Weymouth was an overlooked genius. She and Chris are into creating the music while also being young parents living out of the spotlight. I admire them so much.

@enshen2190 Месяц назад

I just got into Talking Heads and this is the perfect video

@mokodo813 Месяц назад

Watching your channel has given more insight on music than ever before!

@deenraida Месяц назад

My favorite song sampling Genius of Love is Redman's Brick City Mashin'! Eric Sermon did his thang🔥🔥🔥🔥 Btw, keep up the good work.💪🏾

@moneymikz Месяц назад

Me and Mariah go back like babies to pacifiers…

@corinne_vintage Месяц назад

It's not your fault all great things connect back to Dilla.

@pixelrancher Месяц назад

Tom Tom Club didn't get the recognition they deserved. If you see the name Adrian Belew, stop what you're doing and listen. King Crimson, Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, NIN, Paul Simon, Brian Eno, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jean Michel Jarre, Cyndi Lauper and Mike Oldfield - in the studio or live - the man is a genius.

@Motown85 Месяц назад

Let’s not forget Ice Cube used some of the lyrics in Bop Gun as well. “So what you gonna do when you get out of jail? I’m going to have some fun with the Bop Gun”

@shralpRC Месяц назад

One of the first tapes I ever had as a kid was Tom Tom Club, Close To the Bone. I played the heck outta that. Still love it. And thanks for these videos my dude!

@o_dubski Месяц назад

Great storytelling! I feel like this needs a Spotify playlist to go along with it and all the great music brought up

@ParaphraseAccolade Месяц назад

This man continues to absolutely cook and I'm loving every minute of it

@ingmarvanderhoek6314 Месяц назад

Fela Kuti was influenced by James Brown so things go in circles...great video again!

@devinalexander7415 Месяц назад

Love the channel. So informative. Love the journey of samples and inspirations

@MrCoBaker Месяц назад

Let’s not forget Tre+6 and their flip of this sample about car jacking with “Life is Crazy”.

@hmohngcheelee7549 Месяц назад

My man!!!! I was thinking about when your next video was gonna drop!

@fschirott Месяц назад

Thank you for all that great information and showing up these connections between all those different songs, artists and genres. That is very interesting.

@chuckaudio3191 Месяц назад

Its tough to put into words how much I love and learn from each Digging The Greats video! Its all good. Its what RU-vid SHOULD be about.

@stephensemp8634 Месяц назад

“Questlove for white people” 😂😂😂 💛💯

@diggingthegreats Месяц назад

😂😂

@beatbuildersstudio Месяц назад

Great video. Always on point breaking down samples and there history.

@StillOnTrack Месяц назад

Another amazing video. Loved the extended rotation ✌🏽

@theonlycaamz Месяц назад

common digging the greats w

@diggingthegreats Месяц назад

TOO QUICK!!!

@theonlycaamz Месяц назад

@@diggingthegreats it's what i do

@Andoss34 Месяц назад

I don't know which is best... when you break down music I've heard before, or when you introduce me to music I never knew. Either way, amazing channel!

@AndrewDasilvaPLT Месяц назад

Thank you for your work.

@jwalzer Месяц назад

I absolutely love this channel 🎉

@YoungLPLovers Месяц назад

🔥 That was Excellent!

@Tysonyar Месяц назад

Genius of Love has to be one of the most sampled songs ever, right?

@faithlessfate Месяц назад

Gratz on the sponsor man

@tcdaballer Месяц назад

You did Fela! 🙌🏾🙌🏾

@XavierCoolDude Месяц назад

Another great video. Ironically my 8 year old daughter’s favorite current song is “Genius of Love”-I havent gotten into samples yet with her, we’ve just been discovering covers. And another irony is that I have been blasting “Like Water for Chocolate” and before that “Fantastic Vol II” which you also made a vid about recently for about the past 2 month-both 2 of my all time fav albums. You are waking music encyclopedia-another great vid

@JonAllanson Месяц назад

Another great video. Thanks so much for sharing these with us. Also, a question: have you thought of doing a video where you break down the books behind you? I know you've referenced the Dilla one a few times, which lead me to read it (it is a great as you said). And, I recognize the Questlove ones, and Check the Technique, I think. But I can't make out all of them. If they've earned a place on your shelf, it would be cool to have you promo them a bit so we can dive into them as well.

@CultureSlice Месяц назад

Bro your videos are so, so good. Absolutely inspirational for my channel! Would love to know how you deal with copyright on music but am sure this isn’t the right forum for it! 😂 All the best my friend

@fnjesusfreak Месяц назад

And Public Enemy's "Leave This Off Your F'n Charts" seems to reference it... xD

@MovieMonkez Месяц назад

Not even 5 mins in n the history ur hitting us with is absolutely blowing my mind

@theplayaslounge Месяц назад

Nailed It👊🏿

@reimourrpower9357 Месяц назад

Note: Zapp's "More Bounce" was originally written entirely by *Bootsy Collins* . Roger Troutman of Zapp added his vocals and guitar later then wrote the credit as written entirely Troutman with simply 'bass by Bootsy Collins'. Similar to how the credits on "Genius of Love" had David Byrne, Brian Eno and Talking Heads as opposed to Tina Weymouth & Chris Franz recieving proper individual credit. Tricky biz this music industry.

@Falche23 Месяц назад

Imagine influencing so much with one single. Incredible Tom Tom Club

@krono5el Месяц назад

Def heard the first two and they are classics. totally hits the nostalgia.

@AndrewRisitano 13 дней назад

Such a great groove.

@SuperChocolateCocoaBear Месяц назад

Love this, looking forward to the version that uses Long Red by Mountain. I can't unhear that sample.

@thutomofokeng2699 Месяц назад

Let's not forget about the Legend Andre Stax, we can't leave Big Boi out! Let's dive into their journeys their creations, their joint creations and solo creations! Looking into vibrate by Andre would be phenomenal it sounds insane, I can't even comprehend how they achieved some of that production on my own.

@nicolesherman8974 Месяц назад

Here to listen to this heat 🔥

@edh7492 Месяц назад

Genius rap -Dr Jeckyll & Mr Hyde

@colapone1895 Месяц назад

Never Been THIS Early to a vid, welp, gonna enjoy this before work

@diggingthegreats Месяц назад

WELCOME!

@chrisramos6884 Месяц назад

“David Byrne or as I call him; Questlove for white people.” That one got a good chuckle out of me, bravo!

@abelperez1434 Месяц назад

K-Rino Cartoon Orgie from 1993 also used the sample in his first solo album.

@steveaguay Месяц назад

I'm okay with digging the dilla

@donjr75 Месяц назад

your channel makes me think of digging in the crates I get it😊😊

@OurBlackEmpowerment Месяц назад

Genius Rap - Dr. Jecklyn & Mr. Hyde .........Classic

@nicklindsey3099 Месяц назад

Could you do a video on the song I can't wait by Nu Shooz? I play that song all the time on touchtunes at bars and everyone bops their head to it

@williamprocope9648 Месяц назад

The song was also sampled by Xclan.

@DonTheking Месяц назад

The very first song that sampled this was the song “Genius Rap” by Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde After this song blew up, Sylvia Robinson (owner of Sugar Hill Records) wanted to capitalize off of the fame surrounding Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde’s version so she had Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five made their version “It’s Nasty”. The album “The Message” was mostly an effort by Sylvia Robinson to capitalize off what was trending during the time

@dajhedi Месяц назад

I’m 54. I grew up on the original song.

@bearded_wolverine3503 Месяц назад

I'm 50 right there with ya

@DiscoDaddy1975 Месяц назад

Who pays for this research? Grossly under appreciated

@paredg2 Месяц назад

Just curious do you have a 3rd Bass video? Their sampling and beats are sick....

@RicoBanani Месяц назад

love it!

@thesuncollective1475 Месяц назад

If only history lessons at my school were like this, I would have aced it!

@haveialigned Месяц назад

You know who else was in Stop Making Sense and influenced their sound on Remain In Light? BERNIE WORRELL!!! Is it time to delve into the influence Bernie, Bootsy and Parliament Funkadelic had on hip hop?? 🤩

@kidsonicofficial Месяц назад

0:08 I'm not sure, I know it through Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5 - I'm Nasty from the album "The Message".

@TYBO-xl1xz Месяц назад

I remember when the original came out, my moms wore it out

@samuelfek Месяц назад

also from 1981, Tim Maia got a song called Sol Brilhante and is very similar to this song. Don’t know who copied who.

@diggingthegreats Месяц назад

Ha! Definitely sounds like someone copied someone - love me some Tim Maia

@alexohkay Месяц назад

I think I first heard this on a Redman track on Doc's Da Name

@xenrx9781 Месяц назад

10:51 I like the Guayla music in the backround

@MetalSonic420 Месяц назад

Fire video.

@PwnytailJoe Месяц назад

The remixes are even better[Money Mark, Pinker Tones, etc..]

@PhoneNHe Месяц назад

I see a notification from Professor DTG, I click thumps up before the play button.

@diggingthegreats Месяц назад

Please, call me Mr Diggs. Professor DTG is my father

@PhoneNHe Месяц назад

😅awesome, sure Mr. Diggs@@diggingthegreats

@josephjohnson1057 Месяц назад

Had absolutely NO IDEA that "Once in a Lifetime" was the Tomtom Club's imitation of Fela Kuti!!! I don't think he pulled it off, but I still like the song.

@reimourrpower9357 Месяц назад

That was Talking Heads but I hear you.

@TheTrumpReaper Месяц назад

What genre of music is the original Genius of Love? It sounds more like jazzy funk than rock. There's a *WHOLE LOT* of jazz in Talking Heads songs (I am a jazz vibraphonist).

@profwilliams2772 Месяц назад

Love your research, presentation and respect!!! I wish you would play MORE of the music to make your points, but I understand why you can't. But yours IS a Classic example of Fair Use. I believe you can easily pass the 4 factors used to determine such (Courts balance these 4 factors to determine Fair Use). BUT of course, RU-vid usually doesn't allow you to or it becomes so expensive and time consuming that it's not worth it. It's a shame, because despite you monetizing your channel, I don't think the copyright holder could overcome 4 part test. But the threat of lawsuit or RU-vid demonetizing or banning a video is real. So here we are: Someone who loves the music, uses it for educational purposes, is exposing it to a new audience and in no way harming "the copyright holder's ability to profit from their original work" who can't really play the music for fear of being banned. Oh well. Much respect to you!!!!

@diggingthegreats Месяц назад

Man, I could talk for hours about this. It's a constant battle - Fall of last year it came to a head with a bunch of demonetized videos, label battle, copyright strike, video removal etc. The good news in all of this is the DTG Patreon is thriving! Such a great group of people all together enjoying music - and the Patreon "Extended Edit" of THIS video - it's at least 5 mins longer 🔥 I don't want to annoy people by constantly plugging Patreon, but the videos over there are genuinely so much better because I don't have the bogus platform restraints

@profwilliams2772 Месяц назад

@@diggingthegreats Gotta tell ya, I don't mind the plugs. I will certainly check it out!!!! YOU are worth it!!

@Itzamadhouse Месяц назад

Describing David Byrne as Questlove for white people killed me. 😂😂😂

@bospats1 Месяц назад

Brick city mashin by Red Man is my favorite reworking of this song

@reverend11-dmeow89 Месяц назад

*>Tina Weymouth Chris Frantz

@JoeMamaBesser Месяц назад

Tina Weymouth is the actually the genius of TTC and TH.

@maurice7950 Месяц назад

Stetsasonic just dropped a new album

@nilkilnilkil Месяц назад

Remain in light is a pretty interesting record. Whole thing is like 1 chord vamps, right ???

@dza1988 Месяц назад

Classic Tom Tom Club funk tune

@wowmedialtd Месяц назад

Thanks, i ❤ these. Another v.tenuous link.... both TH and Blondie played at CBGBs in NY during the same nights. Blondie then rapped about 'Flash' on 'Rapture' and Flash mixed it within his 'Adventures of'. Debbie Harry also has a cameo in Wildstyle. NY Punk and hip-hop have a strange but strong connection. Just ask the Beastie Boys.

@reimourrpower9357 Месяц назад

Where was Debbie Harry in WILDSTYLE? I believe you meant *Patti Astor* who co-starred in the film as the blonde hipster white chick caught up hanging with Fab 5 Freddie and Lee Quiones in the Bronx' developing Hip Hop scene. Her style is very similar to Debbie Harry's, platinum blonde and all.

@kaleahcollins4567 Месяц назад

Born under punches is one of the best songs theyve made

@NimRegev Месяц назад

Nice video but why is Adrian Belew not mentioned in it? Great musician with an amazing career who contributed to the track.

@AndrewNienaber Месяц назад

You missed the fact that Angelique Kidjo covered the entire Remain in Light album, making it an African cover of an American album based on African music.

@coolearth7130 Месяц назад

Didn’t this video come out already?

@TheMick126 Месяц назад

On a break from talking heads they made genius of love

@Phoenix-xn3sf Месяц назад

I feel that X-Clan's 'In The Ways Of The Scales' deserves a mention. For me the main Golden Era use of Genius Of Love. Mariah Carey was just leeching off of hip-hop by then, same as with J-Lo using that Beatnuts sample a few years later.

@willmorgan2482 28 дней назад

Song at 9:22?

@PotrzebieConolly Месяц назад

You do a lot of hip-hop history. I was wondering if Jamaican toasters in the early 1970s, like U-Roy, influenced hip-hop?

@reimourrpower9357 Месяц назад

Most definitely. The sound systems and DJ/MC's of Jamaica and across the Caribbean influenced DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaata, Grandmaster Caz, Disco Wiz and many others who brought the outdoor systems into Hip Hop. Many of the founders had roots from Jamaica, Haiti, Trinidad, Barbados, Guyana, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Domincan Republic, Grenada, etc.