To coincide with today’s Thursday Throwback, I thought it’d be cool to compile the original samples used in this legendary album. LL Cool J’s Mama Said Knock You Out brings back a ton of memories for me. Released on September 18, 1990, I had just started my sophomore year in high school. I remember buying the cassette tape as soon as it came out at Tower Records. Along with N.W.A. and some 2 Live Crew, this tape was in constant rotation in my car’s tape deck as my boys and I would cruise the strip in Virginia Beach. That was before they made cruising illegal. Back then we didn’t have the money for high-end stereo equipment, so we wired up as many home stereo subwoofers we could get so that we could feel “The Boomin’ System” in the trunk of my car. Man, what it was like to be 16…
Anyway, enough strolling through memory lane… this album has a ton of great soul and breakbeat samples used extraordinarily by the legendary Marly Marl. Marly Marl produced this whole album, with the exception of the “Jingling Baby” Remix, which LL Cool J produced himself. The album spawned four singles, “The Boomin’ System”, “Around The Way Girl”, “Mama Said Knock You Out”, and “6 Minutes of Pleasure” and was a huge success for LL.
At 28 samples, I had to break this collection into two sets. Rapidshare has been working the best for me lately; Megaupload and MediaFire have been timing out during my upload. So check the link after the tracklist…
Disc 1
- “The Payback” by James Brown
- Sampled in “The Boomin’ System”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “Funky Drummer” by James Brown
- Sampled in “The Boomin’ System” & “Mama Said Knock You Out”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “Risin’ to the Top” by Keni Burke
- Sampled in “Around The Way Girl”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “Impeach the President” by Honey Drippers
- Sampled in “Around The Way Girl”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “All Night Long” by Mary Jane Girls
- Sampled in “Around The Way Girl”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “Atomic Dog” by George Clinton
- Sampled in “Eat ‘Em Up L Chill”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “Don’t Change Your Love” by Five Stairsteps
- Sampled in “Eat ‘Em Up L Chill”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “Cramp Your Style” by All The People featuring Robert Moore
- Sampled in “Mr Good Bar”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “Get Up, Get into It, Get Involved” by James Brown
- Sampled in “Mr Good Bar”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “UFO” by ESG
- Sampled in “Mr Good Bar” & “Murdergram”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “My Thang” by James Brown
- Sampled in “Mr Good Bar” & “Murdergram”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “Moment of Truth” by Earth,Wind and Fire
- Sampled in “Mr Good Bar” & “Murdergram”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “Soul Vibrations” by Kool & The Gang
- Sampled in “Cheesy Rat Blues”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “Maceo” by Maceo and All The Kings Men
- Sampled in “Cheesy Rat Blues”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “Better Half” by Maceo and All The Kings Men
- Sampled in “Cheesy Rat Blues”
- Produced by Marly Marl
Disc 2
- “Mack Man” by Willie Hutch
- Sampled in “Farmers Blvd. (Our Anthem)”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “Brothers Gonna Work it Out” by Willie Hutch
- Sampled in “Farmers Blvd. (Our Anthem)”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “I Wrote a Simple Song” by Billy Preston
- Sampled in “Farmers Blvd. (Our Anthem)”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More, Babe” by Barry White
- Sampled in “Farmers Blvd. (Our Anthem)”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “Gangster Boogie” by Chicago Gangsters
- Sampled in “Mama Said You Knock Out”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “Trip To Your Heart” by Sly and The Family Stone
- Sampled in “Mama Said You Knock Out”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “Sing a Simple Song” by Sly and The Family Stone
- Sampled in “Mama Said You Knock Out”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “Funky President (People It’s Bad)” by James Brown
- Sampled in “To Da Break Of Dawn” & “6 Minutes of Pleasure”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “Got to Getcha” by Maceo and All The Kings Men
- Sampled in “To Da Break Of Dawn”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “Joyous” by Pleasure
- Sampled in “To Da Break Of Dawn”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “Ike’s Mood” by Isaac Hayes
- Sampled in “6 Minutes of Pleasure”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “Mind Power” by James Brown
- Sampled in “Illegal Search”
- Produced by Marly Marl
- “The Breakdown” by Rufus Thomas
- Sampled in “Illegal Search”
- Produced by Marly Marl
* “The Boomin’ System” also samples a verse from LL’s “Cheesy Rat Blues” ** No sample information found for “Milky Cereal”, “Jingling Baby (Remixed But Still Jingling)”, or “The Power of God”
