Sample Plate or How Turntablism is Driving Me Mad!

BASS! HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?

That line is stuck in my head. Anyone know where it's from?

I'll tell you...

The Album: "It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back."
The Song: "Bring the Noise"
The Artist: Public Enemy

I tell you that to tell you this: it's used somewhere else. The line.

I just don't remember where.

And THAT is driving me crazy.

I've gone on before about how obsessive I get about music. I love music. Every aspect of it. The rhythms, the melodies, the harmonies, the counterpoints. And in this day and age there's even more to it, especially if you listen to rap or techno.

Rap USED to be about a guy talking and a guy laying down some rhythm patterns with a keyboard (typically Casio, cause they're cheap) and/or a turntable via scratching (the term these days is turntablism and it's become one of the fastest growing musical instruments in this day and age). Now, a good DJ (turntablist) will sample bits and pieces of records to produce a desired effect: a rhythm pattern, a string of dialog... Really good DJ's are wizards when it comes to cutting and pasting together samples (my personal favorite is DJ Jazzy Jeff, see HE'S THE DJ, I'M THE RAPPER for examples of his expertise). What makes turntablism fun (for those who tolerate/like it in the first place) is trying to figure out where the samples come from originally.

Now I'm sure there HAS to be a web site out there that could be my roadmap to hunting up some of this stuff, but just to give you an idea of what I'm talking about...

Song: Flip Fantasia (Cantaloop) by Us3
The bulk of this song is a sample of Cantaloupe Island by Herbie Hancock. Us3 took the song, sped it up, put some live drums over it, funked it up some, and rapped over it all. It kicks major musical butt (even my wife who LOATHES rap likes this song).

Song: Pop Goes the Weasel by 3rd Bass
Depending upon which version you get ahold of, it has a couple different samples. The one's I noticed were Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel. The other is something I've yet to identify by name, but is performed by Stevie Wonder. (I originally thought it was Superstition, but that's wrong.)

Where it really get's tricky is when rap artists sample other rap artists. Or other rap artist's samples... here's an example: again, Public Enemy, song is "Caught, Can We Get a Witness?" They sample a tune by Bomb the Bass called "Beat Dis." What I don't know is this: is the rhythm guitar sound they use original to Bomb the Bass, or did Bomb the Bass sample it from somewhere else, and PE thought it was cool and used it on their album?

Maybe I'm making more out of this than is necessary, but then again, I warned you: I'm obsessive about this stuff.

More examples:

Tone Loc's "Wild Thang" samples Van Halen's "Jamies Crying"

DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince's "Girls are Nothing but Trouble" samples the theme from "I Dream of Jeannie." (there's a DUH!)

And of course, the sample everybody knows (and either loves or hates): MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" is blatently sampling Rick James "Superfreak."

At least Hammer admitted what he did. Unlike Vanilla Ice and his infamous sample on "Ice Ice Baby" of Queens "Under Pressure."

So... Anyone out there know of some more samples, or know of a site that explains where they come from? Let me know.

Please...