Props go out to Andrew over at Musical Essence, who hooked up these samples to the classic Fugees album, The Score. I had honestly never thought of doing a sample set based on this album, but it’s surprisingly a very nice set.
The Score is produced by a variety of producers including each member of the Fugees as well as Diamond D, Salaam Remi and Jerry ‘Wonder’ Duplessis. Although most tracks are built on sampled melodies, live instrumentation and DJing are incorporated into multiple tracks. Wyclef Jean plays the guitar on “Family Business,” while DJ Scribble scratches on “Manifest/Outro”. Still, samples are the predominant production tool on this album. “Fu-Gee-La” incorporates a sample of Teena Marie’s “Ooh La La La,” and it is interpolated in the song’s chorus. “Ready or Not” also contains a sample that is interpolated, “Ready or Not (Here I Come)” by The Delfonics.
Vocals from hip hop songs are also heavily sampled on The Score. “Manifest/Outro” contains a sample from “Rock Dis Funky Joint” by Poor Righteous Teachers, while the title track contains vocal samples from every track on the entire album. The wide array of samples and instrumentation on The Score attributes to a diverse set of music and features many aspects of alternative hip hop music that would come to dominate the scene in the late 90s.
One interesting note is that the Enya sample was initially uncredited on the track “Ready or Not”. Enya was prepared to sue for copyright infringement, but later decided not to when she discovered that the Fugees were not gangsta rappers.
- “Twilight Time” by Moody Blues
- From the album Days of Future Passed (1967)
- Sampled in “How Many Mics”
- Produced by Wyclef Jean, Shawn King, Lauryn Hill, Pras, Jerry Duplessis
- “Boadicea” by Enya
- From the album Enya (1987)
- Sampled in “Ready or Not”
- Produced by Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, Pras, Jerry Duplessis
- “Django” by Modern Jazz Quartet
- From the album Django (1956)
- Sampled in “Ready or Not”
- Produced by Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, Pras, Jerry Duplessis
- “Ready or Not, Here I Come (Can’t Hide From Love)” by The Delfonics
- From the album he Sexy Sound of Soul (1969)
- Sampled in “Ready or Not”
- Produced by Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, Pras, Jerry Duplessis
- From the album he Sexy Sound of Soul (1969)
- “God Made Me Funky” by The Headhunters
- From the album Survival Of The Fittest (1975)
- Sampled in “Ready or Not”
- Produced by Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, Pras, Jerry Duplessis
- “I Only Have Eyes For You” by The Flamingos
- From the musical Dames (1959)
- Sampled in “Zealots”
- Produced by Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, Pras, Jerry Duplessis
- “Ooo La La La” by Teena Marie
- From the album Naked To The World (1986)
- Sampled in “Fu-Gee-La”
- Produced by Salaam Remi
- From the album Naked To The World (1986)
- “(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want To Be Right” by Ramsey Lewis
- From the album Love Notes (1977)
- Sampled in “Fu-Gee-La”
- Produced by Salaam Remi
- “Je Vais T’aimer” by Michael Sardou
- From the album Je Vais T’aimer (1976)
- Sampled in “Family Business”
- Produced by Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, John Forte, Pras, Jerry Duplessis
- From the album Je Vais T’aimer (1976)
- “Fool Yourself” by Little Feat
- From the album Dixie Chicken (1973)
- Sampled in “Killing Me Softly”
- Produced by Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, Pras, Jerry Duplessis
- “Memory Lane” by Rotary Connection
- From the album Rotary Connection (1967)
- Sampled in “Killing Me Softly”
- Produced by Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, Pras, Jerry Duplessis
- From the album Rotary Connection (1967)
- “Killing Me Softly With His Song” by Roberta Flack
- From the album Killing Me Softly (1973)
- Sampled in “Killing Me Softly”
- Produced by Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, Pras, Jerry Duplessis
- “The Day Begins” by Moody Blues
- From the album Days of Future Passed (1967)
- Sampled in “Killing Me Softly”
- Produced by Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, Pras, Jerry Duplessis
- “Dove” by Cymande
- From the album Cymande (1973)
- Sampled in “The Score”
- Produced by Diamond D, Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, Pras, Jerry Duplessis
- “My Melody” by Eric B. & Rakim
- From the album Paid In Full (1987)
- Sampled in “The Score”
- Produced by Diamond D, Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, Pras, Jerry Duplessis
- “Planet Rock” by Afrika Bambaataa
- From the single “Planet Rock” (1982)
- Sampled in “The Score”
- Produced by Diamond D, Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, Pras, Jerry Duplessis
- “Nights In White Satin” by Moody Blues
- From the album Days of Future Passed (1967)
- Sampled in “The Mask”
- Produced by Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, Pras, Jerry Duplessis
- “Something ‘Bout Love” by The Main Ingredient
- From the album Afrodisiac (1973)
- Sampled in “Cowboys”
- Produced by Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, John Forte, Pras, Jerry Duplessis
- From the album Afrodisiac (1973)
- “No Woman, No Cry” by Bob Marley & The Wailers
- From the album Natty Dread (1975)
- Sampled in “No Woman, No Cry”
- Produced by Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, Pras, Jerry Duplessis
- “Rock Dis Funky Joint” by Poor Righteous Teachers
- From the album Holy Intellect (1990)
- Sampled in “Manifest/Outro”
- Produced by Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, Pras, Jerry Duplessis
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im throwing up the “black power” fist right now for this one.
right on!