With the recent release of George Martin's Beatle mashup titled Love (in which Sir George does a remixation of various Beatle backing tracks, riffs, melody, beats and harmonies to make completely new tunes), I am reminded once again of the Beatles profound influence on the way music sounds even to this day. HipHop/Rap is a dying genre (artistically its been on life support for some time) but perhaps the genre that first came to prevelence by pilaging the Beatles fully stocked creative warehouse can once again ford these same rivers and attempt to save itself. In the mean time, here are 17 examples of how the Beatles have influenced HipHop/Rap:
EXAMPLE #1: Jay-Z and Linkin Park joined Paul McCartney on stage for the 2006 grammys for a rendition of The Beatles' "Yesterday."
EXAMPLE #2: The Beastie Boys use no less than five Beatles samples on 'Sounds of Science' off their Pauls Boutique album
http://www.beastiemania.com/misc/3313.php
EXAMPLE #3: Here's a link to a description of the Grey Album, an entire hip hop album based on the Beatles White Album:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grey_Album
EXAMPLE #4: Delicious Vinyl sampled a bit from Paul McCartney's "Band on the Run" record onto a Tone Loc album--which they later had to take off for legal reasons...
EXAMPLE #5: DJToast admitted that "In fairness The Beatles did pioneer studio techniques without which hip hop wouldn't have been possible, in terms of (tape-based) sampling and looping." The Beatles use of the Mellotron on "Strawberry Fields Forever" is recognized as the first time the technique of sampling was brought to the public consciousness.
EXAMPLE #6: Ringo, although not often given credit, originated bling-bling.
Example #7: Public Enemy recorded a track entitled "Psycho of Greed" for their album Revolverlution that contained a continuous looping sample from The Beatles' track "Tomorrow Never Knows".
EXAMPLE #8: JPL's "Let It Be Missy Elliott (Beatlesmix)"
EXAMPLE #9: dj BC created The Beastles: Meet the Beastles
EXAMPLE #10: PPM's "A Life In The Day"
Example #11-16:Hang All DJ's Volume 5 "Tour Da Eleanor Rigby" (Head Traxx Inc.)
DMC "From Us To You Megamix"
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Beats? "Tomorrow Never Knows"
Prodigy Present: The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One "Sergeant Pepper" (XL Recordings)
MashupTown have featured several Beatle's mashups, including ones that mixed them with Shaggy and LeTigre
Loo and Placido mix with BEP/Ludacris/Kelis
EXAMPLE #17: Slick Rick along with many Hip Hop artists often site the Beatles as the group Hip Hop artists should pattern themselves after... http://www.odeo.com/audio/610940/view
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