Sly & the Family Stone - Into My Own Thing

[smcdowell26]

weapon of choice

[crunkaholic81]

WHAT IS SOUL

i dunno

Soul is a hamhock in yo corn flakes

WHAT IS SOUL i dunno

soul is chittlin foo young

WHAT IS SOUL i dunno

soul is a joint rolled in toilet paper

OH YEA LONG LIVE P-FUNK

[PianoMan0489]

When Funkadelic was still The Parliaments they used to cover this as well as the spiritual "Showboat," originally sung by Paul Robeson, in all their shows. What a great set of influences!

[BPrime712]

weapon of choice lol

[ClassicRockMan95]

That fuzz bass at the end is SICK!

[1brenwood]

Words from Sly & Fam are timeless....think about it, REALLY LISTEN to the words.....just like "shine it on".....just let SHIT roll off your back!

[Gizzowf]

Gotta love that super fuzzy bass at the end.

[SheerKhanSpaceCase]

this is way better song overall than fatboy slims song

[mhotter]

interesting to hear how similar this is to early Parliament/Funkadelic - i mean, Sly was always cited as a main influence, but they pretty much jocked this whole sound on the first couple Funkadelic albums - but its all good : )

[cen1276]

@mhotter It's not much as saying 'jocked' per se,

but the whole element of funk was created by both

Sly & The Family Stone AND George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic.

They basically complimented each other with the style(s) that they used,

and that's what makes all the hits so legendary today;

but I do get your point, though.

[LiiMuRi]

Yay, Fatboy Slim has always sampled the greatest of soul/funk songs. The man has a great taste.

[Cool70sfreak]

@LiiMuRi That he does, good sir. This isn't the only song that proves it, but it does help to prove it A LOT.

[usernameclassifeid]

"The opening to this song should sound familiar even for you kiddos" yes it sure does, sampled in fatboy slim's "weopen of choice"

[caeseroct0]

Weapon of Choice.

[jody808]

still sounds so funky, Sly was setting the blueprint

[laugardog]

guys i think you might be missing the point a little bit. This is just a good song leave all the shit out of it. THANKS GUYS :D CIAO xxxxxx

[undataka2000]

Slim ain't done anything that has been done in hip hop 1st.

[djosephj]

Listen to Freddie Stones tone! I like! Get to the bottom of this!

[adamgman37]

i hate you

[MUN7001]

now I'm sorry but I Friggin hate hiphop , or djing whatever electronic music now, dumb Fatboy Slim, teafing the record

[HolyJoe09]

What I hate is when hiphop samples a record, and so many people here this music without knowing who was really responsible for it

[chiknfulio]

Its also really sad when people assume that the artist's who sample tunes don't know anything about the original artist. George Clinton calls it passing down the torch. Great tune though haha :)

[chiknfulio]

By the way, I just reread what I wrote. I hope you don't think that I am implying anything particular about you. Its just those who assume haha. You know what they say :)

[AerosauruS]

Totally agree. I'm very interested in all sorts of music and I'm only 19. I ALWAYS make research just like now, I wanted to know what this nice sample from Fatboy Slim's song came from.. and here I am :)

[lance007lance]

@AerosauruS , the other part of the Fatboy Slim song is from The Chambers Brothers "All Strung Out Over You"

[thegreasytoothpick]

@AerosauruS same here dude

[darganx]

er ....thats the whole point of Hip-Hop but then on YouTube i've got used to this type of typical haters remark ..........not knowing the full facts.

The GREAT thing about Hip-Hop (the music form) is it's Pluralism - not one sound but an amalgam of many, keeping the form fresh which is the key to it's longevity.

A lot of the music used (sampled, scratched, whatever) are from artists who you would never associate a connection with.

[darganx]

but thru the music there begins an affinty or respect for an artist from the listener that wasn't there before.

That is the essence of Hip Hop music - if you're hearing the processed modern stuff that's out there on the radio now, and brands it all with the same quality then that's your problem.. I've been a fan of Hip Hop for over 25 years and the amount of genres and artists I've been introduced to thru the music are amazing.

[darganx]

Also a lot is down to the producers of the record - geniuses in the studio like DJ Premier, Marley Marl, J Dilla and other cryptically twist and edit the sound of the original to create something new..

my iTunes is full of original 'Breaks', records from artists across the spectrumThe Meters to Steely Dan, Ahmad Jamal to Led Zeppelin, Billy Joel, Shirley Bassey, The Four Seasons, Woody Herman! and so on...

[McFat91]

"Teafing" the record? Well beyond your horrible grammar, (Which by the way is ironic since "teafing" derived from hip-hop culture) your ignorance as to what FatBoy Slim does is highly astounding. Slim has probably been one of the greatest mixers of our generation bringing back superb classics (like this), mixing it with more amazing classics and truly creating a phenomenal mixes.

[MUN7001]

hes probably 'amazing' cause he's 'white', there is nothing 'amazing' about a 40 year old disc jockey, other than 'stealing' hiphop records, by the way 'dumb white boy', 'teafing' is not a hiphop culture term

that comes from carribean culture, lol, but i bet you cant tell the difference between the cultures, typical ignorant fool

[McFat91]

friend im a working dj for 4 years... im guyanese. Firstly music is beyond ethnicity and culture. Secondly, the skill required to mix and cut music is beyond fathom... if yu knew anything about music everything is sampled, altered and fabricated from the music that came before it. Ps. i didnt mean any disrespect; i also love funk (James Brown, earth wind fire, and even the commodores) but Fatboy Slim has an amazing talent for mixing music crossingover from funk to hiphop which is sheer genius

[MUN7001]

i respect you as a dj, but please shut the fuck up, the most musical ability a dj has, is almost like a child who has just started an instrument, so please dont even start, your definetly right music is fabricated from the past, based on the past, difference is people actually make something new out of it, not completely plagiarise like djs do,

[Isteinier]

@MUN7001 Dude, Fatboy Slim used a 3-second-long riff in a 5-minute-long song. Can't say he stole the song.

Oh, and as long as the dj's pay for their songs, they ain't 'plagiarising' nobody

[snakefinger]

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