>you see... you see... you see
It's actually 'You say...you say...you say.' The sample Adam F uses comes
from 'The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Steel' by
Grandmaster Flash.
The 'track' is actually a kind of mini mix tape of Grandmaster Flash
scratch-mixing 'Good Times' by Chic (the break for Rapper's Delight) with a
load of other stuff. It's about 7 minutes long and can be found on most best
of Sugarhill/Grandmaster Flash comps. The version I've got is on an 80s rap
compilation called 'Rockit', which came out in 1998.
Grandmaster Flash starts the mix by playing a sample of "You say its one for
the money, two for the time, c'mon ya'll and let's rock this rhyme"
mentioned by Derek earlier. I don't know where Flash got his sample from but
the one Adam F uses definitely comes from 'Wheels of Steel' and not the
original source.
You can tell this because at the start of 'Wheels of Steel' Grandmaster
Flash scratches back over the first part of the sample 'You say....' so that
it is repeated several times at different pitches in a kind of melody before
he lets the sample go. The result: 'You say...you say...you say...you
say...you say...you say...you say it's one for the money etc.'
It's Flash's repeating of 'You say...' that is sampled by Adam F for 'Brand
New Funk', making it a kind of sample of a sample. Where did Flash get his
sample from? Beats me.
Carl
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