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So the sample that Pete Rock grabbed from
this Ahmad Jamal record...
Right here.
Uh... it comes up right here–
he just took like two bars.
Right here.
Ooo!
Right there. Wooh!
He took that and gave it to Nas.
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[piano playing]
Jazz is the mother or father of hip hop music.
They're both musics that were born out of
oppression.
They both are kind of like protest music.
You know, going against the grain.
Naturally, if you're a hip hop producer
that wants a lot of melodic stuff happening,
you're probably going to go to jazz first.
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That's the part! Yup.
So that's what he did.
He just took it,
and he actually slowed it way down
in pitch.
You know.
And then added his own bass line to it.
You know.
Put stupid drums on it and just…
Ooh!
What's cool about this is there's not much
chopping.
Uh, chopping is basically like
plastic surgery
to music.
You know you take stuff out, put stuff on,
so you almost don't recognize it as the original.
Lifting something...taking something–just taking something
is literally just taking it as it is and not
changing anything.
With Ahmad Jamal, you don't have to do a lot
of chopping,
because his music is already crazy.
Hearing this over and over again
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I could pray to this, you know?
So that's one of the things I got from Dilla.
He made people want to actually play like his beats.
And that's the thing, you know,
that's the beauty of music.
You can learn so many different things from
everywhere.
It's full circle.
You know.
That's the vibe.
