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Title: Anyone like the Average White Band? They've been sampled by a lot of rappers
Post by: Lincoln on December 02, 2005, 12:17:29 PM
I've been digging them a lot over the last few months or so, great funk/R&B.
Title: Re: Anyone like the Average White Band? They've been sampled by a lot of rappers
Post by: On The Edge of Insanity on December 03, 2005, 06:55:12 AM
Yeah man, they really dope, I got a couple of their albums on vinyl. Probably gonna go see them live cause they @ The Jazz Cafe in January.
Title: Re: Anyone like the Average White Band? They've been sampled by a lot of rappers
Post by: Lincoln on December 03, 2005, 07:03:20 AM
Quote from: Rastaman Vibration on December 03, 2005, 06:55:12 AM
Yeah man, they really dope, I got a couple of their albums on vinyl. Probably gonna go see them live cause they @ The Jazz Cafe in January.

Oh man, that would be a good show. This guy I was talking to at the vinyl store I go to told me he saw them live a couple years back, got his album signed. Only 2 original members though.

*Playing Person To Person right now!*
Title: Re: Anyone like the Average White Band? They've been sampled by a lot of rappers
Post by: On The Edge of Insanity on December 03, 2005, 07:27:39 AM
Just checked on the Jazz Cafe website, and its actually May they are playing. Oh well, a little longer wait than I thought, but ii'll definitely still be checking them out. Whats that joint of their's that everyone and their mother has sampled?
Title: Re: Anyone like the Average White Band? They've been sampled by a lot of rappers
Post by: Kill on December 03, 2005, 08:05:42 AM
might have to get into them a lil. Basically, I´ve just heard the name and a bunch of tracks i barely remember...
Title: Re: Anyone like the Average White Band? They've been sampled by a lot of rappers
Post by: Lincoln on December 03, 2005, 09:31:25 AM
Quote from: Rastaman Vibration on December 03, 2005, 07:27:39 AM
Just checked on the Jazz Cafe website, and its actually May they are playing. Oh well, a little longer wait than I thought, but ii'll definitely still be checking them out. Whats that joint of their's that everyone and their mother has sampled?

Pick Up The Pieces I think has been sampled a fair amount.
Title: Re: Anyone like the Average White Band? They've been sampled by a lot of rappers
Post by: On The Edge of Insanity on December 03, 2005, 10:02:58 AM
Heres the full list of people who've used their samples, the song I was thinking of was Schoolboy Crush,

Show Your Hand: (Atlantic 1973)
* "The Jugglers"
     Ice Cube - "What They Hittin' Foe?"
* "Reach Out"
     Boogie Down Productions - "House Niggas"
     Ice Cube - "Steady Mobbin'"
     Lifer's Group - "Jack U. Back (So You Wanna Be a Gangsta)"
     Lifer's Group - "Rise or Fall"
     Prince Paul - "Steady Slobbin'"
     Yo-Yo - "Put a Lid on It"
* "T.L.C."
     Boogie Down Productions - "Ya Know the Rules"
     Cash Crew - "U Can't Stop This"
     Jurassic 5 - "Unified Rebellion"
     The LOX - "The Heist (pt 1)"

Average White Band: (Atlantic 1974)
* "Pick up the Pieces"
     Awesome Dre - "You Can't Hold Me Back"
     Cash Money & Marvelous - "Who's in the Place?"
     Changing Faces - "I Got Somebody Else"
     Chris Rock ft ODB - "Me & ODB"
     Doug E Fresh - "On the Strength"
     Public Enemy - "Night of the Living Baseheads"
     Real Roxanne - "Her Bad Self"
     Steady B - "Certified Dope"
     Stezo - "Jimmy's Gettin' Funky"
     Stezo - "Talking Sense"
     Style - "Set the Mood"
     Tim Dog - "You Ain't Shit"
     YZ ft G Rock - "In the Party"
* "Person to Person"
     Big Daddy Kane - "Mr. Pitiful"
     Bobby Jimmy - "Erotic Psychotic"
     Boss - "Recipe of a Hoe"
     Brand Nubian - "Word is Bond"
     Brothers Like Outlaw - "Trapped into Darkness"
     Changing Faces - "I Got Somebody Else"
     Downtown Science - "Something Spankin' New"
     EPMD - "Richter Scale"
     Funkmaster Flex - "Sad and Blue"
     Insane Poetry - "Angel of Death"
     Low Profile - "That's Why They. . ."
     Luke - "Cowardz in Compton"
     Mellow Man Ace - "Gettin' Stupid"
     Public Enemy - "Air Hoodlum"
     Puff Daddy ft Foxxy Brown - "Friend"
     South Central Cartel - "Ya Getz Clowned"
     Steady B - "Stone Cold Hustler"
     Tim Dog - "Goin Wild in the Penile"
     Yo-Yo - "Put a Lid on It"
     YZ - "Thinkin' of a Master Plan"

Cut the Cake: (Atlantic 1975)
* "Schoolboy Crush"
     AMG - "Once a Dawg (Janine 2)"
     Artifacts - "What Goes On?"
     Beatnuts - "Ya Don't Stop"
     Color Me Badd - "Thinkin' Back"
     De la Soul - "Do as De La Does"
     De la Soul - "Strictly Dan Stuckie"
     Diana King - "Shy Guy"
     DJ Eclipse - "Dedication"
     Double XX Posse - "School of Hard Knocks"
     EPMD - "Can't Hear Nothing but the Music"
     EPMD - "Give the People"
     Eric B & Rakim - "Microphone Fiend"
     Father MC - "One Night Stand"
     Fresh Kid Ice - "From da Bottom to Da Top"
     Immature - "Do My Thing"
     Janet Jackson - "New Agenda"
     Kwame - "Thatthewaydatitgoez"
     Lench Mob - "You and Your Heroes"
     Nas - "Halftime"
     Public Enemy - "Pollywanacraka"
     Ras Kass - "Soul on Ice"
     Rodney O & Joe Cooley - "Nutty Block"
     South Central Cartel - "Bring it On"
     Special Ed - "Think about It"
     TLC - "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg"
     Too $hort - "Life is Too $hort"
     X-Clan - "Grand Verbalizer, What Time is It?"
* "If I Ever Lose this Heaven"
     De la Soul - "Foolin'"
     Gumbo - "The Jungle"
* "Cut the Cake"
     Beastie Boys - "Dis Yourself in '89 (Just Do It)"

Soul Searching: (Atlantic 1976)
* "Soul Searching"
     Private Investigators - "A If U Listen"
* "Love Your Life" (Horns)
     A Tribe Called Quest - "Check the Rhyme"
     Fatboy Slim - "Love Life"
     Geto Boys - "We Cant Be Stopped"
     Kool Keith - "Get off My Elevator"
     Larry Larr - "Jazz it Up"
     Penthouse Players Clique - "Blak is a Poet"
     Stereo MCs - "Use It"
* "I'm the One"
     Brand Nubian - "Word is Bond"
* "A Love of Your Own"
     Brownstone - "Love Me Like You Do"
     Lil' Kim ft Mona Lisa - "Time to Shine"
     Yella - "Dat's How I'm Livin"

Person to Person: (Atlantic 1976)
* "Cut the Cake" (Live)
     High Performance - "Here's a Party Jam"

Benny and Us: (Atlantic 1977)
* "A Star in the Ghetto"
     NWA - "If it Ain't Ruff"
* "Get it up for Love"
     Def Jef - "God Made Me Funky"

Warmer Communications: (Atlantic 1978)
* "Your Love is a Miracle"
     Del - "Hoodz Come in Dozens"
     Ultramagnetic MC - "Bust the Facts"
     WC & the Maad Circle - "Get on up on That Funk"
* "Sweet & Sour"
     Justin Warfield - "Cool Like the Blues"
* "Daddy's All Gone"
     Twista & Freeway - "Show Must Go On"

Feel No Fret: (Atlantic 1979)
* "Stop the Rain"
     Detroits Most Wanted - "Backstabber"
     GangStarr - "Gotta Get Over"
     Lena Conquest - "Boundaries"
     Pete Rock - "Play Dis Only at Night"
     Willie D - "My Alibi"
Title: Re: Anyone like the Average White Band? They've been sampled by a lot of rappers
Post by: Lincoln on December 03, 2005, 10:25:37 AM
^^ Thanks a lot for the list.
Title: Re: Anyone like the Average White Band? They've been sampled by a lot of rappers
Post by: Suga Foot on December 03, 2005, 11:34:13 AM
I got some of their albums on vinyl.  Person to Person is a classic hip hop sample.
Title: Re: Anyone like the Average White Band? They've been sampled by a lot of rappers
Post by: J Bananas on December 03, 2005, 01:57:03 PM
*Harlem shaking to Pick up the pieces*
Title: Re: Anyone like the Average White Band? They've been sampled by a lot of rappers
Post by: hempside on December 04, 2005, 08:52:15 AM
yeah they a classic group myane.Cube is one artist that samples frrom them alot.dope thread.