![]() ![]() The song was also played at The Notorious B.I.Gs funeral. A taster of that album’s forthcoming success, Hypnotize is a brashly echoing, ground-hugging cut a tribute to Biggie Smalls’ own sicker than your average lyrical skills, with the rapper unapologetically spinning a lyrical web in which he hypes every part of his lifestyle, whether it be his footwear (Timbs for my hooligans in Brooklyn) or. None of this is news to hardcore hip-hop fans, but consider this a lesson for the kids or for those who fail to realize that hip-hop does not eschew history, it honors it, it has a historical pluralism encoded and embedded in its foundational tracks. The rhythm track of Hypnotize is based upon a sample of Rise, a Herb Alpert instrumental. Hypnotize is not one of the Notorious B.I.G.s most complicated or subversive tracks, but it does illuminate New Yorks finest at the peak of his powers. You can click here to here the interpolated part around the four minute mark. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that the refrain is an interpolation of a section of Slick Rick’s all-time classic “ La Di Da Di” (a song so classic that all a DJ needs to do is sneak in a quick scratch of Ricky singing the title to get a crowd pumped). You can use key hold to keep beat going but it will cut out when doing horn stabs therefore I would just hold the key down while playing bass lines. Diddy (known then as Puff Daddy) produced 'Hypnotize' and sampled Herb Alpert's 1979 hit 'Rise' which was written by Andy Armer and Herb's nephew, Randy 'Badazz' Alpert. It is just one of those tracks that hip-hop DJs love to play. Hypnotize.mp3 C3 is the Horn Sample C2 is the beat. Opening the song with it was a real stroke of genius, because it is so immediately recognizable and arresting that it can segue from any song. ![]() ![]() at the beginning-that “doomp doomp doomp.” It is so perfect, so elegant in its simplicity there is no real need to change it, but it is the sampling/re-contextualizing of the little echoed guitar flare (heard about 3:10 on the video above (or click here to jump right to it) that makes the Biggie version work. Here, Randy tells Billboard about his memories of composing and recording Rise, why Hypnotize was the first sample request that he actually cleared, and how Biggie’s song has helped his. It is easy to hear how the bassline is basically lifted straight from the original track, esp. Blige’s first record What’s the 411? is damn good, too – but in terms of just sampling one song and hitting it pitch perfect, who could have imagined that Herb Alpert would have been the joint? (Though I remember when the original record was mad popular back in ’79). Probably the best thing Puffy ever did was sample this song. ![]()
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