Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt II sample Herbie Hancock - Jessica

all credit goes to Bronco from the-breaks for discovering it
http://the-breaks.com/forums/viewtopi...
and Hawkeye from Soulstrut for editing the sample
http://www.soulstrut.com/index.php/fo...

Hawkeye's comments on soulstrut:

Havoc only used one sample out of that piano, not two. As far as I understood it right, the guys at the-breaks.com said he used the beginning sounds and one part which begins 4 seconds after the start.

I think he only used the part which starts after 4 seconds. If you listen closely to Shook Ones Pts.2, you will hear a crackle/static noise, always starting on the 1 of every bar. This noise sounds pitched too. He had a crackle/static on the 1 of the sample which was pitched too as he pichted the sample.

The first bar of Shock Ones Pt.2 is pitched minus 14 semitones and the second is the same sample pitched minus 9 semitone.
he VSOP Version is a live recording of "Jessica". If you compare both versions you will hear that Herbie Hancock flipped the chords on those versions.

In 1975 he started the tune with the 5 notes which can be flipped into Shook Ones Pt.2.

But in 1969 he played those 5 tones 4 seconds after the start of the tune.

Now here is my problem with the VSOP sample and why I think Havoc sampled the "Fat Albert Rotunda" Jessica Version instead of the VSOP Version. VSOP was recorded live. As in many live recordings you hear the audience. Beacuse of Herbie Hancock starting the tune with those 5 tones used for Shook Ones Pt.2 on the live version, you still hear some fans screaming.

Even after the EQing I did, you still can hear those fans. But I cant hear those fans in Shook Ones Pt.2.
Thats why I would say the sample was taken from "Jessica" from the "Fat Albert Rotunda" album by Herbie Hancock.

the other samples on shook ones
"Kitty With The Bent Frame" Quincy Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NuI_W...
"Dirty Feet" Daly Wilson Big Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2uoiB...

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[TerminallyILLMusic]

In my opinion the greatest sample ever made

[SmokeyBeatzOnline]

I'm at a loss for words right now. This is disgustingly amazing!

[infertilefred]

Listen to Inoki - Bologna by night. The beatmaker (Dj Schocca) used the same sample and I think is better than this one

(sorry for my english) ;)

[CiyaDe]

Everytime i hear this beat, i want to go ape

[gurkis35]

So good. Havoc did a really amazing job on this beat

[Dom Starr]

shit is crazy

[jjd8692]

kids nowadays cant do what the kids did b4

[Jonathan C]

thanks you for doing this video!

[Phil J]

Hello, samples are from Al Wilson's "I Won't Last a Day Without You" and

Clyde McPhatter"s "The Mixed Up Cup"...There might be other songs sampled.

[LowEnd31st]

The only thing that could be better : Finding the original sample to "survival of the fittest"

[Doggysoft]

Superb video. Good work.

[clounada2]

How is it even be found????