".....When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this"
Charles Hamilton "Where's My Fucking Genesis?"
I geeked on this track when I first heard it a few weeks ago. I played the crap out of Sonic 2 and I was a hardcore Sega fanboy until the day that the company jumped ship on its own child, the Dreamcast.
After hearing this track, I dug up some more notable uses of video game beats in hip-hop. Matched them up with the originals as much as I could via Youtube. Props to the Gamespot forums for putting me onto most of these. In loose order of freshness.
Beanie Sigel "Mac Man"
Ms. Pac Man
Not sure if he sampled Ms. Pac Man (because that would just be gay and if rap is anything, it's homophobical) but it's closest to the sounds effects I hear. Undoubtedly the best of these video game flips.
Cocoa Brovaz "Super Brooklyn"
Super Mario Bros. Level 1-2
The most recognizable sample. If you don't geek on this, go to the swap meet now, buy a Nintendo with Mario/Duck Hunt, blow in the cartridge, and enter a new world.
Eminem, J-Black, Masta Ace "Hellbound"
Soul Calibur - Cervantes' Theme
From Eminem's Game Over sessions. Yknow, when he still wanted to rap.
Del ft. Khaos Unique "Proto Culture"
Darkstalkers - Morrigan's Theme
Apparently, Del performed this at the Dreamcast 9.9.99 launch party. Props just for being a fellow Sega fanboy. Or otherwise letting himself be exploited by Bernie Stolar.
J Dilla "Zelda"
J Dilla "Zelda 2"
The Legend of Zelda - Hyrule Theme
Off one of J Dilla's beat tapes that float around the Internet. They're both probably from the Hyrule/Overworld theme but I'm not positive. Which is probably a sign of how ill his chopping was.
Percee P ft. Diamond D "2 Brothers From The Gutter"
Contra
Sample comes from the Start/Select Screen music, which you hear only briefly in the video. I think one of the gunshot sound effects is also sampled. My bad for only having the promo copy of this song. Production by Madlib.
Oh No "The Ride"
Castlevania III Intro
And here's Madlib's brother, Oh No, on the mic and the beat.
Green Lantern ft. Kool G Rap, Prinz "We G's"
Final Fantasy VII - Battle Theme
Kinda corny.
Statik Selektah ft. Big Shug "Punch Out"
Punch Out
I'm letting Boston in ONLY for the sake of my dope post. The song kinda sucks.
U.N.I. "Castlevania"
Couldn't find a match for this sample. It might be from Simon Belmont's theme, but I can't hear it definitely.
Slug, Aesop Rock, MF Doom "Put Your Quarter Up"
This samples a bunch of different sound effects from different games. The main one might be a Mario coin sound effect but I'm not sure. Doom drops a nice verse.
If you can find those last two and/or confirm some of the samples I'm unsure of, I'll be indebted to you. Keep on gaming.
6.30.2008
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MARVELLOUS collection. Love this kind of stuff. Sometimes I feel the whole "synthesized real instruments" type pattern that you see a lot in, say, Miami hip hop might be some sort of belated debt to video games. Use of the SID station (like on "Ayo Technology") definitely is.
The only other track I can think of in this more literal vein is Nyorleans bounce classic "Do The Mario" by DJ Jubillee, which manages to incorporate the whole mario theme, the whole level two underground theme and a whole bunch of sound effects. There's also some chicago juke tracks that use the "Zelda falling through a hole" sound effect as I recall.
I'll have to check out some Miami hip-hop then. I think for a lot of these game flips, the producers use the samples more as a signifier for the game than as a legitimately dope sound sample. I love the lo-fi timbre synths of these games for some reason. If Miami hip-hop is much like that, I'm game.
One more: "Game Over" by Lil Flip I'm pretty sure has Ms. Pac Man samples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BUvcddVI6Y&hl=en
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