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But you might not know where this comes from. 'Gold Digger' is of Kanye's biggest songs and lets be honest, it's no secret that 'Ye loves a sample - or two. The British star admits that she struggled to "play it cool" when she heard Drizzy had looped her vocals for 'Pound Cake'.ĩ) Kanye West Feat. Yep, that rather ethereal vocal is all the doing of Ellie. 'Pound Cake' samples Ellie Goulding's 'Don't Say A Word' While we all know Drake's 'Too Much' was based largely around a Sampha loop, you might not know that the 'Nothing Was The Same' track 'Pound Cake' samples Ellie Goulding. The bassline - or rather, THAT - bassline comes thanks to Louis Johnson. It peaked at number four on the Billboard Pop Singles charts, and number seven on the Billboard R&B chart. If you're not familiar with 'I Keep Forgetting', it was released in 1982. 'Regulate' samples Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgetting' The 1994 song is rap at its finest, but did you know that it takes the majority of its structure from a track by Michael McDonald? The Hammersmith born soft rock star's 'I Got The' has been sampled by both Jay Z and Eminem, but most famously - and to best effect - by the Detroit rapper. 'My Name Is' samples Labi Siffre's 'I Got The.' But that iconic bassline is actually a sample. Released in 1999, the track set the standard for everything that followed from Eminem, introducing the rapper to the mainstream in an emphatic way. Nevertheless his choice was perfect for the direction of the production.The infectious bassline that runs throughout 'Work' is a sample taken from 1998 track 'Sail Away'. He may have had to clear out some of the air but there was not any instruments or anything in the background when she sung that part. I have to down play Boi1da’s production skills a little bit because the portion of the sample that he took was just right there for the taking. What surprised me is where the sample came from…īut it’s not too shocking especially if you listen closely. It’s like there’s a small dose of grunge injected into the production. It truly has that Toronto music feel to it. The tempo was slowed down perhaps and the portion that he took was maybe like an odd bar, meaning that he had to make the loop sound smooth because when you take samples with an odd amount of bars then if you were to just play them back to back you would always hear that pause opposed to if you took a sample with an even amount of bars.Īnother song that I enjoy from Drake’s new album is Pound Cake. You can tell that 40 took the sample from an early part of the song.
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More time was put into creating a melody from the chopped sample.
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The drum pattern and bassline are both simple. I like this production because it’s simple and it still manages to bring the listener closer to the mood that the producer was trying to promote. The first of which comes from Wu Tang Forever which was produced by 40. Two of my favorite songs from Drake’s Nothing Was The Same contains samples that I wanted to listen to just to kind of see how they were flipped by Noah ’40’ Shebib & Boi1da. I’m just in the mood to listen to some samples this morning.