How Fatboy Slim is responsible for A Milli
Here's one for you music geeks like me!
Back in 1990, Fatboy Slim was in his reggae influenced remixing anything that moves phase and one of the big remixes he did was for legendary HipHop group A Tribe Called Quest's "I Left My Wallet In El Segundo". During the intro of the remix, due to the reggae flavour of the track; Phife from the group gets his Jafaican on repeating 'A Milli Billi Billi Bong' inna dancehall stylee:
Seems like this resonated with producer Bangladesh who sampled it and turned it into the Lil Wayne monster, currently tearing down clubs across the world and having had artists such as Jay-Z, NeYo and Fabolous doing their own versions "A Milli". Here's how it was done:
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And that's how Fatboy Slim is responsible for A Milli. Next week, how Cliff Richard was repsonsible for Mobb Deep's "Shook Ones"
Comment number 1.
At 24th Jul 2008, MaximumToilet wrote:Funny you should mention the Shook Ones break - it's on a Lulu record. You can hear the break on here (I think the break is about 15 mins in):
The break after that is the other side, which Madlib used a few years ago.
Also, I don't think it's Phife doing the Jafaican (I like that!) on that remix...
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