Thread by @themakeda, so I’ve been listening to my Stevie Wonder radio station on Spotify [...]

so I’ve been listening to my Stevie Wonder radio station on Spotify pretty much all week and I’m finding so much original music that samples have been taken from that I’ve never heard before, I’m consistently amazed. today’s example:

others: Kickin’ Back x Mila J > Summer Madness x Kool and the Gang, Backstabbers x The O’Jays > Wish I Didnt Miss You x Angie Stone

me all week:

Gangsta’s Paradise x Coolio > Pastime Paradise x Stevie Wonder, v obvious one

Just Like A Baby x Sly & The Family Stone > She Don’t Have To Know x John Legend

Footsteps In The Dark - Pt. 1 & 2 x The Isley Brothers > Them Changes x Thundercat

which, the similar/sampled sounds seem simple to me and therefore could be replicated anywhere without intention necessarily BUT considering lyric contexts, it would make sense to me

Oh my god!

Walk On By x Isaac Hayes > 6 Inch x Beyonce ft. The Weeknd!

I thought....maybe.....but I can’t think of the descendant.

have we talked abt Early in the Morning x The Gap Band > Signs x Snoop Dogg ft. Justin Timberlake & Charlie Wilson....specifically Charlie’s verse towards the end

I feel SUPER late to the party hearing the James Brown sample in Alicia Keys version of How Come You Don’t Call Me. is that in the original version of that song too?

sorry, this is incorrect. the James Brown sample is on Fallin’ x Alicia Keys.

it’s on the tip of my tongue, helpnme out y’all