Bob James is back with his most eclectic album yet, “Jazz Hands” – out September 15th 2023. For more information, visit: https://bio.to/BobJamesJazzHandsFB
‘Take Me To The Mardi Gras’ is a gem from Bob James’ second album ‘Two’. The album is widely regarded as a jazz-funk classic (along with One, Three and BJ4). Released in 1975, the album charted at number two on the US Jazz Album Charts. The track, written by Paul Simon, emerged as an essential hip-hop breakbeat and has become of the most widely used samples of all-time, appearing in:
Run-DMC’s Peter Piper,
Chemical Brothers’s Dig Your Own Hole
Beastie Boys’s Hold it Now, Hit It
Biz Markie’s Cool V’s Tribute to Scratching
Ghostface Killah ft Method Man, Raekwon & Superb’s Flowers
Massive Attack’s Unfinished Sympathy
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince’s Hip Hop Dancer’s Theme
PM Dawn’s Set Adrift on Memory Bliss
Public Enemy’s 1 Million Bottlebags
Salt ‘N’ Pepa’s Expression
Eric B and Rakim’s Don’t Sweat the Technique
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five’s Freelance
LL Cool J’s Rock the Bells
Heavy D’s Nuttin’ But Love
Ice Cube’s I Wanna Kill Sam
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo’s Deathwish
Kwame’s Itz Oh Kay
2 Live Crew’s Megamixx II
Mantronix’s Get Stupid
Naughty by Nature’s Let the Ho’s Go
Nightmares on Wax’s Coming Down
Pete Rock & CL Smooth’s Lots of Lovin’
Slick Rick’s The Moment I Feared Succuss
Terminator X’s Ain’t Got Nuttin’
World Class Wreckin’ Cru’s Cabbage Patch
Gravediggaz’s Pass the Shovel
This track was featured in the 2018 Matthew Mcconaughey film “White Boy Rick”.
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This is just so f*cking sick!!!! I could listen to this all day, no joke! Don't know how it stumbled into my feed…but I'm addicted to Bob James now. What a boss!
Not only is this song one of the most sampled songs in history and arguably changed the trajectory of modern music indefinitely, it is also a truly beautiful arrangement that hits an emotional resonance that I can't quite describe in words. There's something bittersweet about the way the strings play off of Bob's luscious rhodes piano work. It just all works together so well. It's a masterpiece through and through.
So many samples in one song.
この曲♪当時の丸井がＣＭに使わなかったら、わからなかったろね？
But you say he's just a friend
Remember this from Run DMC Peter Piper and so many other hip hop classics . Good to know where it comes from . Gotta give this its due .
Bob James for the win!
xoxo The Clarences
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GENIUS
Thank you Bob James for letting hip hop indulge in your music !!
This song makes me want to go to Mardi Gras.
Bob James needs to be acknowledged by Hip Hop. Hands down his music helped influence a number producers and gave birth to a plethora of songs…
Could have also been the opening theme song to a 70’s sitcom
This guy literally helped to invent Hip Hop and made Hip Hop happen with this song
Heard a great interview with DJ Flash where he swapped the record labels so other DJ’s wouldn’t know where his cuts came from.
This is just so f*cking sick!!!! I could listen to this all day, no joke! Don't know how it stumbled into my feed…but I'm addicted to Bob James now. What a boss!
Can someone tell me what the melody is from?? It has words to it but I can't think of what song it is
ahhhhhhh yesssss
Lo mejor de lo mejor Bob James❤
Not only is this song one of the most sampled songs in history and arguably changed the trajectory of modern music indefinitely, it is also a truly beautiful arrangement that hits an emotional resonance that I can't quite describe in words. There's something bittersweet about the way the strings play off of Bob's luscious rhodes piano work. It just all works together so well. It's a masterpiece through and through.
I'm almost 58 and just discovering where Run DMc got the sample
I couldn’t see the hip hop hit in this
See, it's not what you play, it's how you play it. Thank you Bob James.
RUN DMC !!! Wow had no idea…..
2 snares & the tom,, — we used to call it,, the "katak doong" hit em wit the mardi gras son.. – thank you sir,, for teaching us all,,
Run DMC, Nikki D, and Salt N Pepa sent me here
Don't forget Salt n' Pepa with "Expression" @2:00.
What are the voices one can hear over the breakbeat at the beginning?
Bob James is one of the backbones of hip-hop.