I think the best example of this is A Tribe Called Quest's "Find A Way". J Dilla uses a Japanese vocal sample (Towa Tei - Technova) but when Q-tip and Phife dawg rap their own chorus over it, they make the original singer sound like she's singing the same lyrics as them, even though it's in an entirely different language!
I never heard this song so had to look it up. As a Towa Tei fan, I noticed it immediately and never would've thought to sample that track like that. Added, it's a sample of a sample!
It’s common technique. You chop a sample and all the syllables mix up into new words. Pete flipped Sugarman into You’re The Man. I’ve done Forget Domani into Get The Money.
Slum Village ‘Players’ is saying ‘Claire’. Blew my mind then, still does now. Oh, and the snare on ‘Players’ is the clap from ‘Rappers Delight’. Madness.
Jocelyn Flores is a good example also: The Original Sample says: "I know you so well, so well" But XX decided to make "I know you somewhere, somewhere" out of it
Just blaze actually chopped the hold you down sample like that first on a song called ‘Soon you’ll understand’ on Jay-Zs Dynasty album, four years before Alc made Hold you down…
With regards to Hold You Down - I was ALWAYS convinced something was not right about the word "down." This was a big song back when I was into mainstream rap, heard it all the time, and I just never could convince myself that the word was "down." "Well the song is called "Hold You Down"", all my friends would say.
Mannn I love the breathe beat, that was cool for me to find out it was Just blaze’s voice. Nice breakdown man, love the way you take about academic stuff like Mggurk effect.
Finally seeing someone give love to Karriem Riggins!! I've sampled his new "To The Jungle" album to the point where I don't have anymore songs to sample. His drums truly are great for what I make. He's mad underrated too, not many people know about him. Haven't listened to his Jahari Massamba Unit (with Madlib), but will do soon!
Great video again Navie. My favorite of all time is Slum Village- Players. J Dilla sampled the Singers Unlimited song "Claire" and it sounds like "players" on the instrumental. It's only when I tried remaking the beat in 2010 that I found out about the sample, I was so shocked
I knew the I'll Erase Away Your Pain sample before Late came out. I always knew what they were saying. The Breathe manipulation ESPECIALLY was impressive! I spent a LOT of time trying to figure out how he did that! I was familiar with that sample too! Great video as always!
Brilliant video! Now I know the McGurk effect is what I heard on the Nas track "You're the Man" which was sampled from Sixto Rodrigues' song, "Sugar Man". Crazy!
Been watching every upload for almost 3 years now..love the personal stories but tutorials are also great. I raged on my FL FIRE controller when Weaver Beats didnt place you on top tier.
crazy this video just came out.. i accidently did something like this in my last beat... i had to create the phrase i wanted out of the lines being said.. it wasnt as dope as this flip.. but it did open up a bunch of new avenues... you got the best videos on this topic man.. great content
I make completely random sounds that alongside other instruments and vocals sounds really captivating but is kinda' intangible and hard for people to recognise as even being in the track. I adore this stuff man 🤤
My favorite "McGurk effect" is when Jay Dilla produced a song for Slum Village called "Players". He actually sampled a song by The Singers Unlimited called "Clair".
Another cool trick by the Alchemist; In Red Dot Music by Mac Miller, (my favourite Mac song btw) The original sample is from a song called "heart's desire" by camel. The part he samples is about 5 seconds into the track where the line goes "the cause invading all the.." it's cut before the end of the sentence. When he sampled it and used it in the context of the song, which is about taking drugs: the line seems as if it's saying "the drugs are taking over". A nice little audio illusion there.
I think Dilla was the Djedi of this kind of Subliminals... From Fantastic vol1 to Donuts... Thanks for the channel and for the incredible knowledge that you dropping constantly... Namaste Haribol Asewe!!!
One of my favs is Large Professor's remix of Nas' *It Ain't Hard to tell*. Using BizMark's "Highly recognized as the King of Disco and.." from *Nobody beats the Biz* by chopping the word "recognized to say "Nas Nas Nas Nas is the King of Disco-in'"
My favorite example of the McGurk effect is DMX’s “Dogs Out” (prod. by Kanye) where the hook goes “And the dog is out”, meanwhile in the original sample it says “In the darkest hour”. I was so mindblown when I heard the original song. What’s funny is that Kanye didn’t tweak that sample in any special way (except for speeding it up to match the beat) but the official lyrics also say “And the dog is out” 😂
I KNEW they wasn't sayin breathe, but always wondered, but was too lazy to find out, wtf were they really saying in the sample... thank you for this ! ! !
Nice video, Biz Markie was used in Nas "It Ain't Hard To Tell" [Large Professor Remix]...sounds like Biz is saying Nas, but he’s saying "Recognize" from the classic hit "Make the Music with Your Mouth"
I listen to that alchemist song still to this day . ALL THE TIME. Part of the rotation when I turn my music on ! One of my favs . I heard it when I was in like 7th grade . N I remember always sayin. Dayum that’s a tight song ! lol
Using a white noise hat to accentuate an "F" is a dope idea. In the song Madonna by Drake there's a white noise hat in the beat and Drake times his words so that he uses an "F" sound each time the hat his. Super creative idea
Sometimes some things.. sure.. although, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.. so just practice awareness and allow yourself to form your own perspective.. because that is important too.
You're the fucking genius, you figure out all these tricks and methods, it's really incredible! And what's more, you use FL Studio, which is still laughed at by many producers, but it's such a powerful weapon if you know how to use it. And we all see and hear that you can operate it! Thanks for your great work and much love from Germany ❤
I did this by mistake recently singing a part different from my background. I was like, goodness, I have to sing all those notes over again. I didn’t feel like doing all that over, so I kept it.
I've been bedroom producing for some years now. Mainly experimental and electronic. I very rarely use any vocals, and I tend to use quite a lot of effects for sound design. Often I end up creating sounds that sounds like vocal snippets, even though they're not. Or if I improvise some recordings, then it often sounds like I'm having a conversion with myself through the instrument or effect. I once made the tweaking of a BBD delay sound like someone in the other end of an old phone saying: "can you hear me? Can you hear me?!", but in danish (my main language). Kind of spooky. Almost like some unconsious part of me tried to communicate with me through my own intuitive creative expressions 😅 One trick that I sometimes do when editing a recording of something improvised, is that I'll crossfade 2 different parts together, if I deleted something in between, and then get a totally new sound out of it. If I've overdubbed improvisations from different instruments, then I'll often take some parts down in volume until it sounds like it's part of another sound playing at the same time, like layering.
Dilla did it in a lot of his beats. Some that i can think of rn is players, where the sample says claire but the track is named players so thats what you hear. And also on find a way where the sample is in portuguese and q tip just sings over it.
The Alchemist one got me for sure. When I saw J. Dilla I thought you were going to use Slum Village "Players" which samples "Clair" by The Singers Unlimited it's one of my favorite McGurk effect songs.
Great video and breakdown of the samples. My fav was the Alchemist. Its funny though he has a video of him making that beat. He never mentioned the sample disnt say down. The song came to be because the Artist thought it said down too.
