Don't matter which artist uses this sample (Unless it's any of that pop crap like Bustin Jieber or Miley Cyrus) I like any song with samples from Kashmir
Everyone is missing the whole point of this song. It's a song from the 1940s called Signifying Monkey which was covered by Rudy Ray Moore. It's not a song, it's spoken word as a tribute to Rudy Ray Moore. I love all music but when you act the way people are on this comment section, then perhaps commerce has indeed killed art.Music shouldn't be about who wrote what or who ripped off who, it's about a entire medium as a whole.If you can't see that perhaps you should stop listening to everything.
ZEP=GODS......Schoold D or whatever the fuck this douchebag calls him is not even a PIMPLE on the music worlds ass....
ZEP=REAL MUSICIANS RAP AND HIP HOP IN GENERAL....TOTAL SHITE.......and before some asshole racist on here reverses and calls me a racist for hating this,...i like REAL BLACK MUSIC...ie: Marvin Gaye, Al green, SLy, james brown, ewf and commodores....people that actually KNOW HOW TO PLAY MUSIC...not TALK OVER SOMEONE ELSES MUSIC OR A FIXED STERILE BEAT...
@harveydents dude i am a huge zepplin fan but dont be a dumb ass zepplin stole the majority of their songs so be careful pointing the finger at something before you do the research
@MacReddPW they did take some songs in their early days, but they made them soo much better! but 75% what the fuck man? maybe 10% I'd say. and this song sucks anyway compared to Kashmir
this song was not intended to be a part of the "smoke some killl" lp, Schoolly was warming up with other studio musicians...fooling around when he started reciting a comical routine of Rudy Ray (Dolemite) Moores "Signified Monkey", replacing the characters of a lion and monkey with a rapper and pimp. It was a one take in studio event that made the record, thats why there is not much to the production in any elaborate sense....you can even catch mic feedback towards the end...this ish is classic
@buzinaocara ...true true, but ya'd honestly have to take the big pic into perspective when this all broke....not much out there was anti-establishment, let alone anti-society, anti-anything......it provided new ground to be tended...without the likes of Schooly D and the peers of the time, our cowbells'd've been rescinded and we'd already be done spent on market shelves.....
And the moral of the story is to have some originality and not steal the big boys sound. Schooly D. learned the hard way and now he'got nothing more to say.
A much-needed urban re-styling of Led Zeppelin's weak-ass rhymes that had no flow and a pretentious grandiosity that you probably have to be high on shrooms and weed to understand. This version is a gritty hardcore jam that was perfect in Bad Lieutenant. Diddy's version was just trash. Props and much love to Schoolly D.
mikesholler white boys from the suburbs nobody black from the suburbs that statements fucking ridiculous no poor white people in the world cause obama is coming straight outta the GHETTO white boys make dope bboy shit now go play around a golf with that gang banging thug tiger woods
@tonyfits What in the fuck are you talking about? I have read your comment three times and even by youtube standards it's nonsense. There is black people in the suburbs, by the way, just not where you live.
aight i like old school music just as much as the next black dude ( or white boy from suburbs ) but still this song could have been MIXED alot better it';s just the guitar part. no variation no nothing and schooly just talking over it. the music stealing debate aside. this song is not good.
Dont think these are samples, Schooly recorded with a band at times and remember (all you negative types) not ALL Hip Hop was cussing and gangsterisms at this time. There was VARIETY and Schooly was at the ruff end of that spectrum, he started the whole gangsta rap thing......BUT he did it with hard beats and HUMOUR!!!
Tell me which 'artist' today is gonna rhyme about a crazy nite out, and then going home to the house he shares with his mum? lmfao and you gettin all serious.....
a bad ass pimp??? a signifying rapper??? big mean faggot ???? little maggot????hahaaahaa black shades so i can feel cool???? haahahaa schoolly d was runnin this shit
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FUUUCK AGAIN??? I HATE THESE NO TALENT ASS NIGGERS SAMPLING LEGENDARY SONGS LIKE KASHMIR AND TALKIN STUPID OVER EM LIKE" yea uhhh i'ma put my shades on, i'ma slap my bitch and sell my crack, i'm a be black na'mean, i'm blacker than you nigga uhhh muthafuck, bitch, uhh whut, pimp money bitch shit for real that's the deal whaaaat bad faggot nigga nigga nigga uhhhmmm niggaaa whaaat"
WHAT THE FUCK??? WHY DON'T YOU GET SOME TALENT INSTEAD OF TALKIN STUPID N THINKIN U HAVE TALENT?
@diamondback604 Lol, so Led Zeppelin steal blues riffs from black guys, and it's cool. Black guys steal from Led Zeppelin and suddenly it's plagiarism?
led zeppelin didnt have an original note in a single song they made, they can't say shit. at least this is good to listen to, better than listening to page whine and show off the banana he stuffed in his girl jeans
@messerJ4H That's completely untrue. Research it... Zeppelin stole all kinds of shit, just like everyone does. They even stole the guitar riff for "Stairway To Heaven" from a song called "Taurus" by a band called Spirit, who opened for Zeppelin on a tour shortly before "Stairway" was written. And they never said thanks. And Spirit never sued.
Man, I've compiled probably the most complete list of Zeppelins inspirations and rip-offs ever to learn their music, ad what? I still think that they rule.
You are just being ignorant about art creation process.
@messerJ4H Since you've compiled that list, you should be agreeing with me! Again... "just like everyone does". No shame in that. But they do have a lot of nerve for suing a rapper for putting their song in front of a completely different audience.
100 years ago, if you wanted to be a blues musician, you trained under "old, blind, blues master". You washed his pants, wiped his floor, and he would let you copy his licks, which he copied from his master. By doing this, you were in possesion of whole blues tradition, you had a base, allowing you to create your own music on it.
Recording music on tapes and vinyls changed all of that. You could copy blues music without washing junky bluesman pants.
@messerJ4H only difference is that led zeppelin are a bunch of white people from england and not black people that blues is a part of their culture.
i'm not saying other musicians can't be influenced or cover other people songs but when you claim that some piece is your original music/lyrics when it is in fact someone else thats just wrong.
btw i really like zep, but they should give credit to the blues men they borrowed music/lyrics from in the cases which its relevant.
@harveydents You seem to really go on and on about this. Schooly D got the rights legally and was given permission. Zep only sued when both the song and the film became big and they drag Schooly through the courts on some bogus charge.
Schooly D is no different than The Last Poets or Rudy Ray Moore. In fact this song is taken from an old 40s song called Signifying Monkey.
BTW Schooly didn't sample anything, that's an actual band playing with him.
This song was originally in the film "Bad Lieutenant," but Schooly D was sued by Jimmy Page resulting in it being pulled from the film. The film's director, Abel Ferrara, was pissed off and said,. "'Signifying Rapper" was out for 5 years, & there wasn't a problem. Then the film had been out for 2 years & they start bitching about it. It cost Schooly like $50,000. It was a nightmare. Meanwhile, "Signifying Rapper" is 50,000,000x better than "Kashmir" ever thought of being. Why sue?" I disagree.
@cthuluforever It's a good rap song but it is not better than Kashmir. Led Zep came up with the original song, melody and guitar riff. This song is totally anti-gay though.
Well pleased to hear this for first time in years. Inspired backing band. Schooly D output a bit like Billy MacKenzie, Extreme highs and utter garbage. But still pleased they did what they did. Takes me back to nights at Mudd club and Wag club in my youth. Lots of angry comments below - Y,all should chill.
Sorry this guy is a hypocritical, he says "I don't like Rock'n Roll" in one of his songs and in the video shows ridiculously aggresive against white guys playing rock, and then he steals this melody from Led Zeppelin, what a sucker!!
Not a sample! Schooly D played with a band. They lifted the riff, yeah, but the band played the entire track behind this recording live. Schooly D rapped with a rock band, which was otherwise nearly unheard of in 1988. Take a careful listen to the backing track.
@thereaperonthe13thst: Not meaning to offend but if you don't know, you need a history lesson on American music. If you google for instance, Led Zeppelin thieves, etc. loads of information will come up to clarify for you...Jimmy Page is a great guitar player but original he is not...for instance:Tony Iommi and Black Sabbath are original. LZ are not.
ya page was a little sloppy live, but still Zep changed rock music forever. page only allowed this clown to sample Zep's masterpiece so a new generation of little crack pushing, musically ignorant ghetto rat douchebags, which thanks to MTV's glamorizing are found in places you wouldnt expect like rural towns, could know theres something better than rap out there. rap will fade but classical and rock/metal (the non screamo/core/death/black shit) will stay with the people forever.
Wow are you one stupid fuck. Non-black shit? ROFL, funny Led Zeppelin stole most of their music from black musicians... Fucking skinhead. You also don't know a damn thing about music, rock or any other genres.
Then why are you here? A bit frustrated, huh? No sex? No friends? Yeah, I've heard about you people, surfing around, placing idiotic comments, trying to provoke people. My psychiatrist advised me just to tell you to get a life!
My American Studies teacher said that because Led Zepelin sued Schooly D because they used their Kashmir song without their permision this song was "imposible" to get.... guess not! xD YOUTUBE HAS IT ALL!!
@kika4e Led Zeppelin didn't sue, Skooly D did. The Bad LT people were sloppy & didn't pay for the song. Skooly won and for a long time they used church organ music. Skooly FINALLY agreed to let them use the song. There's a restored version. There's gotta be 6 versions of thst movie, R, NC-17, TV, W/ the song, w/ out the song, R with the song..... you get the idea
@MickM621 Bullshit. The song never got back on the soundtrack. Any source would tell you that Page sued him and took the song out. Abel said he'll strangle Jimmy Page for taking Skooly to court. Don't forget Skooly D was apart of the King of New York soundtrack (the movie Abel Ferrera directed before this one). So they would little to know reason to have to resort to using his song without his permission.
@NeverAloneForever i have actually viewed the restored movie on DVD. Also,its not the actual track from kashmir, in fact the skooly song is just an E chord repeated over & over, though it's undeniably built on the zep song. if your big Page fan check out the Stones song '1 hit to the body', he plays a very signature, very inventive guitar intro & solo
@NeverAloneForever I rented the video from a typical mom/pop video store back in the late 90s and it was on there. I had to dub off the VHS to get the song because I couldn't find anyone that had it/knew it. Pre- internet days.
Yeah!You're right!Don't screw it like that...Just let Jimmy Page screw it like this in solding this Masterpiece to a man who can screw it for real: P.Diddy!Thank you for you revelant commentary,Mr.PanosLiver21!
@Szczotkov Actually, they didn't sample Kashmir. That would require that they play the actual recording of the song. Here they just got some musicians to play the music. Zep actually took credit for a lot songs they didn't even write though. Usually just rearranged.
. . . and sampling is not an art. It's apart of doing some art but not in and of itself.
Couldn't he have just told his story instead of stealing someone else's music and talking over it? he's not even rapping. This is terrible, and definitely not "50 million times better" than kashmir.
i dont understand why he should get credit for taking someone elses music and just babbling on over it. He's hardly even rapping. he's just sort of rambling on. Only like two words even rhyme in the whole thing. Also I have never seen "Bad Lieutenant" But if the whole film depended on this, than how good could it be. And the fact that its director said that this crap is "50 million times better than Kashmir could ever hope to be" makes me loose all artistic respect for him.
@gunterdak First of all, it's a simple riff. Zep has helped themselves to many other riffs from blues masters before so I don't see what Zep should be complaining. In fact there have been many popular bands and artist who stole melodies and riffs from lower obscure artists....so why is the reverse situation not accepted?
@TheForgottenFlesh That is a fair point. Zeplin used riffs from other artists. The difference to me is that they built off of it musically. They actually used other peoples creations to inspire their own music. All this is is 12 seconds of Kashmir, virtually identical from the guitar to the bass to the drums, looped over and over again.
It's not looped, it's played live by real musicians.
Led Zep just ripped off blues artists (and Bert Jansch) and turned their amps up. Schoolly D created an entire new genre. And from pompous hippy shit, at that.
@gunterdak But I think what Schooly was trying to say is, which is true, that no one should be looked down or up at in regards to music. My father always goes on and on about how great Paul McCartny is at songwriting but I say he's nothing compaired to Ennio Moricone or Bernard Hermann. Even if he looped it (Which he actually didn't cause it's played live) he shouldn't be looked down upon for it.
@TheForgottenFlesh People don't seem to give a crap if Coldplay stole off Joe Satriani, they just say "oh well" but it's not okay for someone to steal from a mainstream band? Seems a bit unfair to me.
fuck it man at least he recognizes good music and put his own spin on it...i like it when people do covers and and all that...fuckin relax people its music
I didn't think terrible rap shit existed before the crap filled nineties, this crap is terrible made worse by its shitting over of a sample from the greatest rock band of all time.
Actually, JImmy Page and Robert Plant made them remove the song from the film, because they had used the SONG without permission. The song itself and Schooly D were never sued by them. Jimmy Page had allowed the sampling, but not the use in the film..
The fact that I recognise the horribleness of rap does not make me a wanker, rap is the worst genre of music ever invented a replacement of decent songs with utter rubbish, instead of masterful muscisians there are fake computer drum tracks, instead of good singers we have dicks talking for the whole song, the great lyrics of rock replaced with a douchebag rapping about his riches and how many bitches he's slapped in his life. Rock should not be sampled in this pitful music.
@duckdudetom I didn't call you a wanker. I merely said that while he couldn't rap here (with his re-adaptation of an African poem . . . ohh not too well) he rapped better on the Aqua Teen Hunger Force theme song.
Also, not all rap is about being a hustler and spinning rims and smacking bitches. Most Gangster Rap is. Hell, a lot of rock & roll had a lot of flattery. Plus, Run - D.M.C. had some good musicians in their time. The only good hip hop was funk oriented anyway.
its a different form or art, that brings out many different kind of emotions, and speaks to a wide variety of different people, and its nice to hear some music with some soul and have a story behind the music
I actually went to a screening last week of the original version of Bad Lieutenant with this song in it. I gotta say, I can't see it working with anything else in its place. And I wouldn't have come across this song otherwise.
I fucking love this song, it fitted perfeclty in Bad Lieutenant untill it got removed, i saw the proper version in the cinema when it first came out...Bad Lieutenant has lost its edge without this song..
this is a good rap, but a bad use of sampling, its lazy. The rapping element is great, and Led Zap are great, and it works for a few loops of the sample, but it needed a refrain to break it up a bit, it also reminds me of a RATM song (which probably was inspired by Kashmir.
If you can locate one of the very first VHS or laserdisc releases of the film, it will be the "banned" version that contains this song. Make sure you get the NC17 print and not the terribly butchered R version. If you have trouble locating it, I have an excellent quality laserdisc print. Feel free to contact me for more info. :)
@djchris73 Schoolly D was original at being original. Not too talented though. His voice just has depth. I can see why he didn't get famous. The ATHF theme is the shit though.
led zep
crackheadmanning 1 week ago
Don't matter which artist uses this sample (Unless it's any of that pop crap like Bustin Jieber or Miley Cyrus) I like any song with samples from Kashmir
scar1ful 1 week ago
schooly D and aqua teen hunger force = WIN :D
TechnoKid55 1 month ago
how about asking did you like this yes or no simple if your honest
LEEDAWORX 1 month ago
Everyone is missing the whole point of this song. It's a song from the 1940s called Signifying Monkey which was covered by Rudy Ray Moore. It's not a song, it's spoken word as a tribute to Rudy Ray Moore. I love all music but when you act the way people are on this comment section, then perhaps commerce has indeed killed art.Music shouldn't be about who wrote what or who ripped off who, it's about a entire medium as a whole.If you can't see that perhaps you should stop listening to everything.
EverettDudgeon138 1 month ago
ZEP=GODS......Schoold D or whatever the fuck this douchebag calls him is not even a PIMPLE on the music worlds ass....
ZEP=REAL MUSICIANS RAP AND HIP HOP IN GENERAL....TOTAL SHITE.......and before some asshole racist on here reverses and calls me a racist for hating this,...i like REAL BLACK MUSIC...ie: Marvin Gaye, Al green, SLy, james brown, ewf and commodores....people that actually KNOW HOW TO PLAY MUSIC...not TALK OVER SOMEONE ELSES MUSIC OR A FIXED STERILE BEAT...
harveydents 1 month ago
@harveydents dude i am a huge zepplin fan but dont be a dumb ass zepplin stole the majority of their songs so be careful pointing the finger at something before you do the research
iamwhatiam365 1 month ago
vulgar
MrBillcale 2 months ago
so sad this had to be cut from bad lieutenant
setpunk12 2 months ago 5
@setpunk12 your a fucking moron.....they STOLE IT AND USED IT WITHOUT PERMISSION....PAGEY WAS RIGHT TO SUE THEIR ASSES OFF....
harveydents 1 month ago
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Lilwaynebeef 1 week ago
i need my shades
azzz3372 4 months ago
Led Zeppelin stole over 75% of their catalog ..they got nerve suing Schoolly D
MacReddPW 5 months ago
@MacReddPW they did take some songs in their early days, but they made them soo much better! but 75% what the fuck man? maybe 10% I'd say. and this song sucks anyway compared to Kashmir
bastardgear8 2 months ago
Awesome track, sadly cut from current versions of Bad Lieutenant because of some copyright issue.
meritpoint 5 months ago
Kashmir...nice sampling
chrisrap4ever 5 months ago
SCHOOLY PHILLY
silentnlurking 6 months ago
SCHOOLY
silentnlurking 6 months ago
This song is so hard to find and it is the sh*t! Woo! Thank you
rynchelle618 6 months ago
BOMBTRACK! Thanks for posting! ;-)
advantage73 6 months ago
this song was not intended to be a part of the "smoke some killl" lp, Schoolly was warming up with other studio musicians...fooling around when he started reciting a comical routine of Rudy Ray (Dolemite) Moores "Signified Monkey", replacing the characters of a lion and monkey with a rapper and pimp. It was a one take in studio event that made the record, thats why there is not much to the production in any elaborate sense....you can even catch mic feedback towards the end...this ish is classic
johnnamoore1 6 months ago 3
THIS IS SWAG! REAL SWAG,
W2MEntertainment 7 months ago
fuck it this story is funny and remember its 23 years old have a sense of humor i crack up everytime i hear this shit
jesta1979 7 months ago
And after the song was through Fooly D went and sucked the pimp's dick and the big badass faggot's asshole.
SoCalLocsta 8 months ago
Barfing out profanity like a twelve year old, and making it sound like you are a badass. And people buy their crap.
buzinaocara 8 months ago
@buzinaocara ...true true, but ya'd honestly have to take the big pic into perspective when this all broke....not much out there was anti-establishment, let alone anti-society, anti-anything......it provided new ground to be tended...without the likes of Schooly D and the peers of the time, our cowbells'd've been rescinded and we'd already be done spent on market shelves.....
SusepCool 7 months ago
And the moral of the story is to have some originality and not steal the big boys sound. Schooly D. learned the hard way and now he'got nothing more to say.
jokingkong 8 months ago
Thanks to the innerwebs, I now know this is NOT on Menace II Society's soundtrack.
Octospidr 8 months ago
I have loved this song for so long and I've been unable to find it...til now! Thanks for posting it.
rynchelle618 8 months ago
A much-needed urban re-styling of Led Zeppelin's weak-ass rhymes that had no flow and a pretentious grandiosity that you probably have to be high on shrooms and weed to understand. This version is a gritty hardcore jam that was perfect in Bad Lieutenant. Diddy's version was just trash. Props and much love to Schoolly D.
kilo22x 8 months ago
Rap version of Kashmir, love it, but love Led Zeppelin's version better.
BlluunnttMmaann 8 months ago
@BlluunnttMmaann I Think Schoolly D's Version is best but im a Hip-hop fan so of course
But this wasnt like a cover of the Led Zepplin song he just Sampled it it is more Spoken word than anything
Stephenmartin14 6 months ago
@Stephenmartin14 respect your opinion man, but you gotta love the original, hip hop fan or not ya know? :P
BlluunnttMmaann 6 months ago
@BlluunnttMmaann Yea i understand that The Original is Awesome
i guess this is just more my taste But The Original is Still Good
Stephenmartin14 6 months ago
@Stephenmartin14 yeah man, I love this version, it sounds original and really good... got some major respect for you man
BlluunnttMmaann 6 months ago
@BlluunnttMmaann I Respect your opinion as well dude
Schoolly D And Led Zepplin are both awesome
Stephenmartin14 5 months ago
@Stephenmartin14 hell yeah man
BlluunnttMmaann 5 months ago
w00t
diablo9317 9 months ago
niggas!
UncleRuckusNigga 9 months ago
How FUCKIN profane can one get ?
jaghoff 9 months ago
ah a fine translation of Kashmir into baboon!
UncleRuckusNigga 9 months ago
This is not good.
TheHawthorneAbendsen 9 months ago
mikesholler white boys from the suburbs nobody black from the suburbs that statements fucking ridiculous no poor white people in the world cause obama is coming straight outta the GHETTO white boys make dope bboy shit now go play around a golf with that gang banging thug tiger woods
tonyfits 9 months ago
@tonyfits What in the fuck are you talking about? I have read your comment three times and even by youtube standards it's nonsense. There is black people in the suburbs, by the way, just not where you live.
cuchanu 8 months ago
Led Zeppelin version better
vertiz95 10 months ago 2
aight i like old school music just as much as the next black dude ( or white boy from suburbs ) but still this song could have been MIXED alot better it';s just the guitar part. no variation no nothing and schooly just talking over it. the music stealing debate aside. this song is not good.
mikesholler27 10 months ago
boo hoo hoo nigga! zep stole music. it aint like niggas dont steal from white folks!
UncleRuckusNigga 10 months ago
At least when zeppelin "stole" songs the completely changed it musically this guy just took the whole fucking melody and put his stupid voice over it
ColdAsIce3211 10 months ago
@ColdAsIce3211 You don' t know what you're talking about.
adamtzsch 10 months ago
this is schooly d's version of dolemite's signyfiying monkey , i like d's story telling better, but with out d-mite this would have never exsited.
ilurvejerkchicken 10 months ago
Dont think these are samples, Schooly recorded with a band at times and remember (all you negative types) not ALL Hip Hop was cussing and gangsterisms at this time. There was VARIETY and Schooly was at the ruff end of that spectrum, he started the whole gangsta rap thing......BUT he did it with hard beats and HUMOUR!!!
Tell me which 'artist' today is gonna rhyme about a crazy nite out, and then going home to the house he shares with his mum? lmfao and you gettin all serious.....
DLaBrun 10 months ago 2
"boogie boogie boogie ima chase a banana up a tree and shoot hoes!"
MrAssSlapper 10 months ago
a bad ass pimp??? a signifying rapper??? big mean faggot ???? little maggot????hahaaahaa black shades so i can feel cool???? haahahaa schoolly d was runnin this shit
prie71 10 months ago
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FUUUCK AGAIN??? I HATE THESE NO TALENT ASS NIGGERS SAMPLING LEGENDARY SONGS LIKE KASHMIR AND TALKIN STUPID OVER EM LIKE" yea uhhh i'ma put my shades on, i'ma slap my bitch and sell my crack, i'm a be black na'mean, i'm blacker than you nigga uhhh muthafuck, bitch, uhh whut, pimp money bitch shit for real that's the deal whaaaat bad faggot nigga nigga nigga uhhhmmm niggaaa whaaat"
WHAT THE FUCK??? WHY DON'T YOU GET SOME TALENT INSTEAD OF TALKIN STUPID N THINKIN U HAVE TALENT?
diamondback604 10 months ago
@diamondback604 i oly read the first sentence of ur paragraph and i alredy kno ur a faggot
solanascreebs 10 months ago
@diamondback604 Lol, so Led Zeppelin steal blues riffs from black guys, and it's cool. Black guys steal from Led Zeppelin and suddenly it's plagiarism?
GilbertSmith 10 months ago
@diamondback604 haha your a fuckin racist idiot, burn in hell
r3sking 10 months ago
Led Zeppelin did steal some songs but at least theirs was art, this is just a guy cussing over their riff. anybody can do what this guy is doing.
njnjdsj 11 months ago
He bad, but I vote for "Ice T" as the first and foremost gangsta of hip hop
jusard1 11 months ago
Ok led zepplin are assholes they sued Schooly D for sampling this
StephenMartin12 11 months ago
it's not like Led Zeppelin ever stole some melody....
the song is awesome!
22018 11 months ago
led zeppelin didnt have an original note in a single song they made, they can't say shit. at least this is good to listen to, better than listening to page whine and show off the banana he stuffed in his girl jeans
r0llskyay0 1 year ago
@r0llskyay0:
You are so full of shit...
Zeppelin rules rock music. They are one of the most original bands ever.
messerJ4H 11 months ago 3
@messerJ4H That's completely untrue. Research it... Zeppelin stole all kinds of shit, just like everyone does. They even stole the guitar riff for "Stairway To Heaven" from a song called "Taurus" by a band called Spirit, who opened for Zeppelin on a tour shortly before "Stairway" was written. And they never said thanks. And Spirit never sued.
trashcanman999 5 months ago
@trashcanman999
Man, I've compiled probably the most complete list of Zeppelins inspirations and rip-offs ever to learn their music, ad what? I still think that they rule.
You are just being ignorant about art creation process.
messerJ4H 5 months ago
@messerJ4H Since you've compiled that list, you should be agreeing with me! Again... "just like everyone does". No shame in that. But they do have a lot of nerve for suing a rapper for putting their song in front of a completely different audience.
trashcanman999 5 months ago
@messerJ4H so original they lost a lawsuit for plagiarism to willie dixon.
MrZaf12 1 month ago
@MrZaf12
100 years ago, if you wanted to be a blues musician, you trained under "old, blind, blues master". You washed his pants, wiped his floor, and he would let you copy his licks, which he copied from his master. By doing this, you were in possesion of whole blues tradition, you had a base, allowing you to create your own music on it.
Recording music on tapes and vinyls changed all of that. You could copy blues music without washing junky bluesman pants.
messerJ4H 1 month ago
@messerJ4H only difference is that led zeppelin are a bunch of white people from england and not black people that blues is a part of their culture.
i'm not saying other musicians can't be influenced or cover other people songs but when you claim that some piece is your original music/lyrics when it is in fact someone else thats just wrong.
btw i really like zep, but they should give credit to the blues men they borrowed music/lyrics from in the cases which its relevant.
MrZaf12 1 month ago
@MrZaf12
Led Zeppelin just did that.
I don't care that "How Many More Times" is based on...
+ Howlin Wolf' - How Many More Years
+ Howlin' Wolf - No Place To Go
+ Albert King - The Hunter
+ Jeff Beck - Bolero
+ Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning
+ Gary Farr and the T-Bones- How Many More Times
...if that song was something new. That's how music is created, by escalating inspirations to another level.
messerJ4H 1 month ago
@messerJ4H ZEP IS GOD......this asshole is a fucking disgrace
harveydents 1 month ago
@harveydents You seem to really go on and on about this. Schooly D got the rights legally and was given permission. Zep only sued when both the song and the film became big and they drag Schooly through the courts on some bogus charge.
Schooly D is no different than The Last Poets or Rudy Ray Moore. In fact this song is taken from an old 40s song called Signifying Monkey.
BTW Schooly didn't sample anything, that's an actual band playing with him.
EverettDudgeon138 1 month ago
@harveydents i agree... how did we both get here lol
Evile9669 1 month ago
@Evile9669 hee hee i dont know mate...maybe we were both listening to Physical Grafitti?
harveydents 1 month ago
@harveydents xactly man i was playing some Kashmir and then im like WTF lol
Evile9669 1 month ago
This song was originally in the film "Bad Lieutenant," but Schooly D was sued by Jimmy Page resulting in it being pulled from the film. The film's director, Abel Ferrara, was pissed off and said,. "'Signifying Rapper" was out for 5 years, & there wasn't a problem. Then the film had been out for 2 years & they start bitching about it. It cost Schooly like $50,000. It was a nightmare. Meanwhile, "Signifying Rapper" is 50,000,000x better than "Kashmir" ever thought of being. Why sue?" I disagree.
cthuluforever 1 year ago
@cthuluforever It's a good rap song but it is not better than Kashmir. Led Zep came up with the original song, melody and guitar riff. This song is totally anti-gay though.
Satchel334 10 months ago
@Satchel334 No its not just cause he says Faggot dosnt mean anything
Im Bisexual and im a fan of Schoolly D
Stephenmartin14 6 months ago
Well pleased to hear this for first time in years. Inspired backing band. Schooly D output a bit like Billy MacKenzie, Extreme highs and utter garbage. But still pleased they did what they did. Takes me back to nights at Mudd club and Wag club in my youth. Lots of angry comments below - Y,all should chill.
JonJonOne 1 year ago
Sorry this guy is a hypocritical, he says "I don't like Rock'n Roll" in one of his songs and in the video shows ridiculously aggresive against white guys playing rock, and then he steals this melody from Led Zeppelin, what a sucker!!
marottt 1 year ago
@marottt it was the 80s dude do your research
HatersNations 1 year ago
Not a sample! Schooly D played with a band. They lifted the riff, yeah, but the band played the entire track behind this recording live. Schooly D rapped with a rock band, which was otherwise nearly unheard of in 1988. Take a careful listen to the backing track.
Sklak 1 year ago
wtf how dare this babbling baboon sample Zep's masterpiece!
MrAssSlapper 1 year ago
@MrAssSlapper says who, nitwit. Great he sampled this, so new generations
get curious and check those sounds out. Spreading saves music.
ronaldsneek 1 year ago
@MrAssSlapper you realy think kashmire is a masterpiece? i love zeppelin and i think that song is a steaming pile
symbal777 10 months ago
best song ever
redman79ful 1 year ago
the fact that led gets made at someone for "stealing" their song is THICK with irony
fuckin' thieves that they are
symbal777 1 year ago
@symbal777 what songs did led zeppelin steal?
thereaperonthe13thst 1 year ago
@thereaperonthe13thst: Not meaning to offend but if you don't know, you need a history lesson on American music. If you google for instance, Led Zeppelin thieves, etc. loads of information will come up to clarify for you...Jimmy Page is a great guitar player but original he is not...for instance:Tony Iommi and Black Sabbath are original. LZ are not.
madamgmail 1 year ago
@thereaperonthe13thst Search for a song here called 'Kisses Sweeter than Wine' by Jimmie Rodgers for starters...
And I'm an old school HUGE Zep fan ... but fairs fair.
ironman5454 10 months ago
Thanks for the music. I have been looking for this song for years!
furqueron 1 year ago
ya page was a little sloppy live, but still Zep changed rock music forever. page only allowed this clown to sample Zep's masterpiece so a new generation of little crack pushing, musically ignorant ghetto rat douchebags, which thanks to MTV's glamorizing are found in places you wouldnt expect like rural towns, could know theres something better than rap out there. rap will fade but classical and rock/metal (the non screamo/core/death/black shit) will stay with the people forever.
ZOSOrulz1 1 year ago
@ZOSOrulz1 : Gawd, you are a fkkn stupid.
madamgmail 1 year ago
@madamgmail he must never have heard any underground artist
PascalO3007 1 year ago
@ZOSOrulz1
Wow are you one stupid fuck. Non-black shit? ROFL, funny Led Zeppelin stole most of their music from black musicians... Fucking skinhead. You also don't know a damn thing about music, rock or any other genres.
ChrisnSnoop 1 year ago 2
@ChrisnSnoop i meant black metal. and yes page's playing was original, but the ideas for the songs werent.
ZOSOrulz1 1 year ago
worst Zep sampling ever!!!
ZOSOrulz1 1 year ago
@ZOSOrulz1 best.
Tubyubber 1 year ago
so it's not Diddy song ?
merlinmanson2 1 year ago
This was the worst thing to happen to music since African Child
SuperPunchout3 1 year ago
@SuperPunchout3
Then why are you here? A bit frustrated, huh? No sex? No friends? Yeah, I've heard about you people, surfing around, placing idiotic comments, trying to provoke people. My psychiatrist advised me just to tell you to get a life!
suicycoman 1 year ago
Just fuck the bad LT.
Is nobody out there who listened to that shit before this shit piece of movie cames out?
This is real Rap. everybody just know it because its in a movie. Thats sad man...
Odevrekli67O 1 year ago
My American Studies teacher said that because Led Zepelin sued Schooly D because they used their Kashmir song without their permision this song was "imposible" to get.... guess not! xD YOUTUBE HAS IT ALL!!
kika4e 1 year ago
@kika4e Led Zeppelin didn't sue, Skooly D did. The Bad LT people were sloppy & didn't pay for the song. Skooly won and for a long time they used church organ music. Skooly FINALLY agreed to let them use the song. There's a restored version. There's gotta be 6 versions of thst movie, R, NC-17, TV, W/ the song, w/ out the song, R with the song..... you get the idea
MickM621 1 year ago
@MickM621 Bullshit. The song never got back on the soundtrack. Any source would tell you that Page sued him and took the song out. Abel said he'll strangle Jimmy Page for taking Skooly to court. Don't forget Skooly D was apart of the King of New York soundtrack (the movie Abel Ferrera directed before this one). So they would little to know reason to have to resort to using his song without his permission.
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
@NeverAloneForever i have actually viewed the restored movie on DVD. Also,its not the actual track from kashmir, in fact the skooly song is just an E chord repeated over & over, though it's undeniably built on the zep song. if your big Page fan check out the Stones song '1 hit to the body', he plays a very signature, very inventive guitar intro & solo
MickM621 1 year ago
@NeverAloneForever I rented the video from a typical mom/pop video store back in the late 90s and it was on there. I had to dub off the VHS to get the song because I couldn't find anyone that had it/knew it. Pre- internet days.
ironman5454 10 months ago
@ironman5454 So this was extracted from the film?
NeverAloneForever 7 months ago
Yeah!You're right!Don't screw it like that...Just let Jimmy Page screw it like this in solding this Masterpiece to a man who can screw it for real: P.Diddy!Thank you for you revelant commentary,Mr.PanosLiver21!
yestthebest 1 year ago
@yestthebest He helped in the screwing, right?
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
That is a Led Zeppelin Masterpiece.... Don't screw it like that you MOTHERFUCKER...... die !!!!!
PanosLiver21 1 year ago
@Szczotkov Reminds me of the book Reality Hunger.
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
@Szczotkov I guess I can see that. You mean like it's a part of the art.
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
@NeverAloneForever The art process, I mean.
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
@Szczotkov Actually, they didn't sample Kashmir. That would require that they play the actual recording of the song. Here they just got some musicians to play the music. Zep actually took credit for a lot songs they didn't even write though. Usually just rearranged.
. . . and sampling is not an art. It's apart of doing some art but not in and of itself.
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
so awesome how he used Kashmir. Great riff
punkisALIVEagain 1 year ago
this rapper was fightin for freedom of speech for rap artists and the right to say anything they want, this a true philly og classic to me!!!
jizzoizzm1 1 year ago
this guy makes a song about no more rock n roll and yet he samples one of the greatest rock n roll songs of all time. fucking hypocrite.
6DanceTheNightAway6 1 year ago
@6DanceTheNightAway6
he was dissin' topical rock n roll
JAMES6FRANK 1 year ago
chilling song. And it added so much to Bad lieutenant. I agree, the movie just isnt the same without it.
Its a real shame they wouldn't let them use it.
setpunk12 1 year ago
@setpunk12 never seen it without this in. when did they change it?
Krimewave186 1 year ago
Pft Page let a playa play
RidgeJaggers 1 year ago
mr pimp mr pimp for me personaly,the mc schoolly d made more good tracks than led zeppelin did.
prie71 1 year ago
Couldn't he have just told his story instead of stealing someone else's music and talking over it? he's not even rapping. This is terrible, and definitely not "50 million times better" than kashmir.
MrDizzizz 1 year ago
i dont understand why he should get credit for taking someone elses music and just babbling on over it. He's hardly even rapping. he's just sort of rambling on. Only like two words even rhyme in the whole thing. Also I have never seen "Bad Lieutenant" But if the whole film depended on this, than how good could it be. And the fact that its director said that this crap is "50 million times better than Kashmir could ever hope to be" makes me loose all artistic respect for him.
gunterdak 1 year ago
@gunterdak First of all, it's a simple riff. Zep has helped themselves to many other riffs from blues masters before so I don't see what Zep should be complaining. In fact there have been many popular bands and artist who stole melodies and riffs from lower obscure artists....so why is the reverse situation not accepted?
TheForgottenFlesh 1 year ago
@TheForgottenFlesh That is a fair point. Zeplin used riffs from other artists. The difference to me is that they built off of it musically. They actually used other peoples creations to inspire their own music. All this is is 12 seconds of Kashmir, virtually identical from the guitar to the bass to the drums, looped over and over again.
gunterdak 1 year ago
@gunterdak
It's not looped, it's played live by real musicians.
Led Zep just ripped off blues artists (and Bert Jansch) and turned their amps up. Schoolly D created an entire new genre. And from pompous hippy shit, at that.
DamoSuzuki100 1 year ago
@gunterdak But I think what Schooly was trying to say is, which is true, that no one should be looked down or up at in regards to music. My father always goes on and on about how great Paul McCartny is at songwriting but I say he's nothing compaired to Ennio Moricone or Bernard Hermann. Even if he looped it (Which he actually didn't cause it's played live) he shouldn't be looked down upon for it.
TheForgottenFlesh 1 year ago
@TheForgottenFlesh People don't seem to give a crap if Coldplay stole off Joe Satriani, they just say "oh well" but it's not okay for someone to steal from a mainstream band? Seems a bit unfair to me.
TheForgottenFlesh 1 year ago 2
fuck it man at least he recognizes good music and put his own spin on it...i like it when people do covers and and all that...fuckin relax people its music
rednekreckah420 1 year ago
I didn't think terrible rap shit existed before the crap filled nineties, this crap is terrible made worse by its shitting over of a sample from the greatest rock band of all time.
duckdudetom 1 year ago
Wow, when you play that comment backwards, you can actually hear the words; "duckdudetom is a wankstain"
ShutUpYouMong 1 year ago
@duckdudetom He did a lot better on the ATHF theme song.
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
@ zipahead - I'm with you - a mother fuckin limey talkin about stealin shit is WACK -
Especially those assholes.
masondicksin 1 year ago
This feels like COD
TruPoetz 1 year ago
this dude is so philly
howie642001 1 year ago
Actually, JImmy Page and Robert Plant made them remove the song from the film, because they had used the SONG without permission. The song itself and Schooly D were never sued by them. Jimmy Page had allowed the sampling, but not the use in the film..
noseman123 1 year ago
@noseman123 oh shit ..so i take it back then..still though it kinda fucks up the movie for me whenever i watch it on the t.v. with no scholly d
zipahead 1 year ago
@zipahead Yeah, I know what you mean.
noseman123 1 year ago
@noseman123 That still sounds douchey. Ah well.
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
@NeverAloneForever
The fact that I recognise the horribleness of rap does not make me a wanker, rap is the worst genre of music ever invented a replacement of decent songs with utter rubbish, instead of masterful muscisians there are fake computer drum tracks, instead of good singers we have dicks talking for the whole song, the great lyrics of rock replaced with a douchebag rapping about his riches and how many bitches he's slapped in his life. Rock should not be sampled in this pitful music.
duckdudetom 1 year ago
@duckdudetom I didn't call you a wanker. I merely said that while he couldn't rap here (with his re-adaptation of an African poem . . . ohh not too well) he rapped better on the Aqua Teen Hunger Force theme song.
Also, not all rap is about being a hustler and spinning rims and smacking bitches. Most Gangster Rap is. Hell, a lot of rock & roll had a lot of flattery. Plus, Run - D.M.C. had some good musicians in their time. The only good hip hop was funk oriented anyway.
BTW Rap isn't music.
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
@duckdudetom . . . and why the hell did you think I was attacking you? WTF?
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
@duckdudetom rap is not the worst genere of music
its a different form or art, that brings out many different kind of emotions, and speaks to a wide variety of different people, and its nice to hear some music with some soul and have a story behind the music
leramones 1 year ago
@duckdudetom......suck a dudesdicktom with your chipped shoulder...
NeroNonames 1 year ago
jimmy page is so low he would suck the dick of a tiny little maggot... and his mother is a whore.
zipahead 1 year ago 2
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noseman123 1 year ago
@zipahead ahahahahahaha G R E A T !
kindsaluv 1 year ago
I actually went to a screening last week of the original version of Bad Lieutenant with this song in it. I gotta say, I can't see it working with anything else in its place. And I wouldn't have come across this song otherwise.
ElPimpo69 1 year ago
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ElPimpo69 1 year ago
I fucking love this song, it fitted perfeclty in Bad Lieutenant untill it got removed, i saw the proper version in the cinema when it first came out...Bad Lieutenant has lost its edge without this song..
grindhouse74 1 year ago 3
this is a good rap, but a bad use of sampling, its lazy. The rapping element is great, and Led Zap are great, and it works for a few loops of the sample, but it needed a refrain to break it up a bit, it also reminds me of a RATM song (which probably was inspired by Kashmir.
TimHaywood 1 year ago
@TimHaywood It's always interesting, listening to people think out loud... :D
adamtzsch 1 year ago
lol he got sued for this song.
blingkid47 1 year ago
This is when rap didn't irritate me.
Minionuup 1 year ago
Schoolly D is tha omb and getas his just due but could use more recognition for his brilliant work!!!!!! LONG LIVE SCHOOLLY D!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
jesta1979 1 year ago
If you can locate one of the very first VHS or laserdisc releases of the film, it will be the "banned" version that contains this song. Make sure you get the NC17 print and not the terribly butchered R version. If you have trouble locating it, I have an excellent quality laserdisc print. Feel free to contact me for more info. :)
cinemavirtualis 1 year ago 2
Willie Dixon sues Led Zeppelin = Ok. Everybody happy.
Jimmy Page sues Schooly D = Not Ok. Everybody pissed.
WTF?
How does Schooly D get a pass, but LZ and JP are assholes?
Plus, Schooly D's lyrics sound like a little kid came up with 'em.
Not that P. Diddy is any better or more creative.
That fucker couldn't come up with an original hook to save his life
djchris73 1 year ago
@djchris73 Schoolly D was original at being original. Not too talented though. His voice just has depth. I can see why he didn't get famous. The ATHF theme is the shit though.
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
@NeverAloneForever
I have to agree with you there. The Aqua Teen Hunger Force theme song is th eshit.
djchris73 1 year ago
@djchris73 "67 years in the future, biatch"!!!
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
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djchris73 1 year ago
this is been a favorite of mine for years bad asssong im glad its back i say f jimmy page for being greedy carmar is a m fuker
chuckgutt 1 year ago
Musical murder, Kashmir kicks this sogs ass.
75SilentWarrior 1 year ago
@75SilentWarrior Jimmy should have realized how badass (despite the mellow vocals) the Kashmir riff is.
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
@75SilentWarrior honestly Skooly is the best singer led zeppelin ever had. Robert Plant has great voice but tasteless.
MickM621 1 year ago
@MickM621 indeed.
Tubyubber 1 year ago
dis tune fuckin rocks.............
kenmcradge 1 year ago 2
I remember when I had this on cassette and I couldn't listen to because I lived in my moms house at the time...I was about 13 when this came out...
keepthapinit 1 year ago