I'm trying to make a playlist of rap covers/remakes of non-rap songs. I'm leaning more towards remakes than just straight up covers.

Examples:
Kanye West - Stronger (Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger)
Black Eyed Peas - Pump It (Dick Dale - Misirilou)
That Linkin Park/Jay-Z album.

Stuff like that. Any ideas?

I'd also be interested in stuff like the JXL remix of Elvis' Little Less Conversation

8/2/2008 9:04:52 PM

Krayzie bone samples "Moments in Love" by art of noise in his song Murda Mo

ive always loved this one

8/2/2008 9:19:23 PM

bone thugs sampled chains no too long ago

8/2/2008 9:48:33 PM

puff daddy - ill be missing you
originally by police/sting

8/2/2008 9:49:16 PM

that's right...when rappers do it, it's "sampling"

unless it's vanilla ice...then it's just flat out theft

8/2/2008 10:02:10 PM

Isn't all rap pretty much covers/samples of older, better music?

8/2/2008 10:02:11 PM

bone thugs- Take Me Home

8/2/2008 10:24:58 PM

mo murda > murda mo

8/2/2008 10:47:52 PM

^^^not all, just most

here's a rap song that's about 30 times better than the original:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TnwU2iMRUqA

as a bonus, that video is a hilarious windows movie maker slideshow where the lyrics pop up in a comic sans style font

[Edited on August 3, 2008 at 12:30 AM. Reason : ]

8/3/2008 12:24:51 AM

Young Gunz w/ Juelz Santana - $$$ Girlz
remake of
Hall and Oates - Rich Girl

8/3/2008 12:28:26 AM

the wackness has that a tribe called quest track that samples walk on the wild side

8/3/2008 12:45:58 AM

Coolio - C U When U Get There.

8/3/2008 1:21:18 AM

Quote :

"mo murda > murda mo"

i mean if you want to be a snob about it you can spit shit like that


murda mo is more relevant to me becuase it gets me hyped for competition

8/3/2008 2:50:53 AM

rick ross- push it to the limit
pitbull- the anthem (enur calabria)
lil wayne- more fly than you (so in love with you-al green)
camron-girls just wanna have fun

8/3/2008 6:09:34 AM

add in lupe fiasco-daydreamin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQYcoPfE7Xk
from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3TH1AtROws

push it to the limit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDnw_SPfMxM
from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhsTmiK7Q2M


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUuPoSKLYSo&feature=related
from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrU3UyN7uTk


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlRRdMYU7eg
from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbqnMID3gbo&feature=related

girls just wanna have fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6_BaENSJPg
from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqf9PuKi63E

8/3/2008 8:02:33 AM

^ that push it to the limit rap shit was pathetic

ludacris - diamond in the back ( stole from curtis mayfield )

2pac - staring at the world thru my rearview ( samps in the air 2nite phil collins )

[Edited on August 3, 2008 at 10:49 AM. Reason : a]

8/3/2008 10:47:03 AM

thisd thread doesnt make sense

so sampling the riff and stealing the chorus=remake?

thats pretty much every rap song ever

8/3/2008 11:31:37 AM

yes, remake and cover are terrible words for what he's describing...BUT he did describe what he meant so u can't hate that much.

8/3/2008 11:46:39 AM

^^a good one is Fugees "stayin alive"

they kinda went with the song id consider that as bout as good an actual cover as you can get

if you want to see a genre completely bite a song check out country music or these alternative cover bands that do the very shit that you are bitching about

but you probably love it, at least in rap they change the words..or SOMETHING about the damn song

8/3/2008 12:03:56 PM

Quote :

"here's a rap song that's about 30 times better than the original: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TnwU2iMRUqA"

epic fail. try again.

8/3/2008 12:56:54 PM

another push it to the limit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc9b-DssDg8&feature=related

8/4/2008 12:38:25 AM

The "I kissed a girl" song is supposedly a rip off.

8/4/2008 1:57:32 AM

mike jones and the 36 mafia did a trak sampling the dance of the sugarplum fairy

its actually pretty hot

8/4/2008 1:00:59 PM

Quote :

"ludacris - diamond in the back ( stole from curtis mayfield )"

curtis mayfield William DeVaughn

also I'd say Outkast's "West Savannah" is more appropriate as a remake of DeVaughn's "Be Thankful For What You've Got" than Luda's song

9 in my hand, ounce in my crotch, diggin the scene with the gansta slouch, oooooh

8/4/2008 1:01:45 PM

lil wayne "playin' with fire" is a straight rip of "play with fire" by the stones

and universal is gonna get paaaaaid because of it

8/4/2008 1:42:14 PM

Nevermind.

[Edited on August 4, 2008 at 2:00 PM. Reason : .]

8/4/2008 1:59:52 PM

"The Way It Is" by Bruce Hornsby was "redone" by Tupac "That's Just The Way It Is."

ya heard?

8/4/2008 2:09:00 PM

here are three of my favorites:

Ice Cube - Today Was A Good Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4RY-eJgHHs
from Isley Brothers - Footsteps In The Dark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DLnUwUpnb8


Gravediggaz - Mommy, What's A Gravedigga?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua4nPwor0kM
from Patrice Rushen - Givin' It Up Is Givin' Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVTw8xxps6c
(also sampled on the intro off The Coup - Genocide and Juice)

Biggie - Juicy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noTvdpAYeHE
from Mtume - Juicy Fruit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQpwerg5BFU

[Edited on August 4, 2008 at 10:34 PM. Reason : ]

8/4/2008 10:32:17 PM

tupac- until the end of time
samples broken wings

funky col medina

8/4/2008 11:06:40 PM

Puff daddy or whatever his name is today also cover Led Zeppelin's Dyer Maker with that stupid Godzilla song.

8/5/2008 3:54:51 PM

Quote :

"Puff daddy or whatever his name is today also cover Led Zeppelin's Dyer Maker Kashmir with that stupid Godzilla song."

8/5/2008 6:02:41 PM