classic early '90s stuff, has all the usual features -- female singer, male rapper, one phrase from the lyrics showing up on screen, "drop that ghetto blaster", people lipsyncing over samples, etc.
I just found out there's a cover. And it's by . . .
My good friend dj BC may have to stop hosting his most prolific project for free soon so he's put a call out to anyone who wants to keep listening to his mashups to download them now if they don't already have a local copy.
Also I clapped out loud with my real physical hands when I've Got The Power dropped on top of Tubthumping because that sort of moment is exactly what I like best about mashups.
Due to clearance issues, when they tried to release The Power in the US/UK, Turbo B re-wrote and re-recorded the lyrics and they released that version as Snap!.
And then we get to what I just heard, the version by "Power Band", who Discomagic seem to have formed to be a Snap! cover band, I guess? Because a lot of their songs are Snap! covers, except for this one which is the Chill Rob G version. It's pretty confusing. And to cap it off, this is some of the sloppiest rapping I have ever heard. I know not everyone is trying to be crisp and enunciate everything, but this guy feels like he only got paid to say 80% of the syllables and, dang it, that's all he's going to do. Also he doesn't even _know_ the lines, it's "my writing exciting never mundane", not "my writing exciting never won again" or whatever it is that he mushes out there. (and then they just, like, shove in the Kurtis Blow 'so damn tough' sample because sure, why not?)
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I was suddenly reminded of one of my all time favorite covers, Wilson Pickett covering "Hey Jude". Not just for Wilson Pickett, although you never turn down the Pickett, but because Duane Allman was at Shoals as a session player and convinced Pickett to do the song because he had an idea for the guitar...
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classic early '90s stuff, has all the usual features -- female singer, male rapper, one phrase from the lyrics showing up on screen, "drop that ghetto blaster", people lipsyncing over samples, etc.
I just found out there's a cover. And it's by . . .
this meme is good (Misery X CPR X Reese's Puffs)
good 4 u is a new and original song which doesn't plagiarize at all
https://djbc.net/thebeastles
Also I clapped out loud with my real physical hands when I've Got The Power dropped on top of Tubthumping because that sort of moment is exactly what I like best about mashups.
We start with _The Power_, by Snap!, which is, coincidentally, in the mashup above, and is the version that made the most chart impact:
That was originally _The Power_, by Power Jam / Chill Rob G:
which was based on _Let The Words Flow_ by Chill Rob G:
Due to clearance issues, when they tried to release The Power in the US/UK, Turbo B re-wrote and re-recorded the lyrics and they released that version as Snap!.
And then we get to what I just heard, the version by "Power Band", who Discomagic seem to have formed to be a Snap! cover band, I guess? Because a lot of their songs are Snap! covers, except for this one which is the Chill Rob G version. It's pretty confusing. And to cap it off, this is some of the sloppiest rapping I have ever heard. I know not everyone is trying to be crisp and enunciate everything, but this guy feels like he only got paid to say 80% of the syllables and, dang it, that's all he's going to do. Also he doesn't even _know_ the lines, it's "my writing exciting never mundane", not "my writing exciting never won again" or whatever it is that he mushes out there. (and then they just, like, shove in the Kurtis Blow 'so damn tough' sample because sure, why not?)
Normally I have a fair bit of time for seemingly-unnecessary cover versions, but only when they're actually _trying_, sheesh.
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And the full version of the song:
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