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The opening brass riff of Beyoncé’s ‘Crazy In Love’ is iconic. What it samples: The Chi-Lites – ‘Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)’ Try and stop yourself answering “can I kick it?” with an almighty: “Yes you can!” Beyoncé – ‘Crazy In Love’ (2003) This is all made even more impressive when you remember the band members were all only 19 when the song was released!īest bit: The call-and-response chorus. Predominantly based around the lilting, acoustic Lou Reed clip, the laidback tune is arguably the American hip-hop group’s biggest hit, with the legendary call-and-response chorus remaining iconic 30 years since its release.

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Quiz time again: what links classical composer Sergei Prokofiev, Children’s TV series SuperTed and Lou Reed’s ‘Walk On The Wild Side’? It’s A Tribe Called Quest’s stone-cold classic ‘Can I Kick It?’, which samples all three of them. What it samples: Lou Reed – ‘Walk On The Wild Side’ A Tribe Called Quest – ‘Can I Kick It?’ (1990)

After its release Chic’s Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards tried to sue the group’s record label – Sugar Hill Records – for copyright, but eventually settled with a songwriting credit.īest bit: The opening line – “I said a hip-hop, the hippie the hippie / To the hip, hip hop you don’t stop” – is hip-hop’s greatest tongue-twister.

Released in 1979, this was arguably the song that brought hip-hop to the mainstream, with ‘Rapper’s Delight’ climbing up the charts all over the world. American hip-hop trio Sugar Hill Gang’s ‘Rapper’s Delight’ interpolates the strutting bassline from Chic’s disco banger ‘Good Times’.

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