Sample This!: Everything To Me

On this week's Sample This, we have Everything To Me by Monica! Do you know what song is sampled? Tune in to find out! 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hey yo, what is up everybody? What's going on? Happy sample Saturday. Y'all know what time it is. It's time for another edition of Sample This. Have you heard this song before?

SPEAKER_02 0:15

For if you're not going to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_00 1:18

This song came out in 2010. It is from Monica's album Still Standing. Um, it is written by my homie, well, not my real homie, but my girl Jasmine Sullivan, also co-produced by Missy Elliott. And it is on her sixth studio album, like I said, Still Standing, that was released in 2010. Um there was a video to this, didn't I? I don't know where I was when these videos were coming out. I don't remember this video. But it was Monica's first solo release in over three years. The song uh peaked at 44 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the hot RB and RB singles and tracks chart, becoming her first chop chart topper in over seven years. The track was nominated for Best Female RB Vocal Performance at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards. It's my jam. Like I love, I love this song. Monica sang the hell out of this song. Like, it is just the way her voice is over this track. It sounds like something Jasmine Sullivan would sing. That's when I when I found out she wrote part of it and wrote some of it, I'm like, oh, I hear that. Like I hear this is something like I can hear Jasmine Sullivan singing this song. So it's pretty, pretty dope to find out that she actually wrote part of that. Um, and it contains a sample from one of my favorite people. Um, but before I talk about that, um we're gonna hear it. So let's hear where the sample comes from.

SPEAKER_01 3:46

How I love you how I want you Silly of me to think that you could ever really want me to how I love you You're just a library to score I know that I should be looking for more What could it be you I see What could it be? Oh love stop making a fool of me.

SPEAKER_00 4:47

Is that not such a beautiful song? Denise Williams, man, she uh that voice is something else. And silly is such a good song. But I'm gonna let I'm gonna fast forward a little bit because they also sampled another part of this song. If you didn't get it at this point, you're gonna get it at this next point that I'm about to play. So let me get to the point, the part, and we're gonna listen to you. You're gonna definitely hear it from here. Um, but yes, that is silly from Denise Williams. It is off her 1981 album, My Melody, and it became the most successful track off the album, uh, reaching as high as number 53 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming an even bigger success on the RB chart where it peaked at number 11. Um, it has since gone on to become one of Williams' most requested songs over a career that has spanned over 30 years. Um the song featured production by Williams and respected Philly Soul producer Tom Bell. The song was recorded in Philadelphia's acclaimed Sigma Sound Studios. Um the song was actually covered by, I don't know if y'all know this artist, um Taryl Hicks. Now, if you don't know who Terrell Hicks is, this happened in 1997. I remember this vividly because um Teryl Hicks, I want to say this video. Uh I might be making this up now, I might be confusing it, but I feel like this video was Terrell in like silver paint. It's like a black video, black background. She's covered in some kind of like silver paint, and she's singing this song. I'm gonna go back and check the video. If y'all know what I'm talking about, y'all gonna check it out too. But she's singing this song, and if you don't know who Teryl Hicks is, she played in the movie Belly, which is uh which was one of the the biggest hood movies, hood classics out there, um, starring DMX and Nas with T-Boz. T-Boz's was uh Nas' character's girlfriend or wife, I think it was his wife. Buns was his name, and Tommy, who was played by DMX, Tommy's girlfriend, Keisha, I think is Keisha her name? I think Keisha was her name because I couldn't remember at first. Keisha was her name, and that's who Terrell Hicks is. And in the movie Belly, in one of the scenes, I think it is the scene, don't get me wrong, it might be the scene when when Keisha is calling Tommy or something, I can't really remember, or Tommy is in the shower when he came home and she was mad at him because she she had found out he was messing with somebody else. I can't remember exactly the scene, but there is a scene within Belly that has her video of her singing silly on the TV screen. So if y'all remember Belly, you remember seeing someone in silver or some kind of something in a back in a black background on TV, that's Teryl Hicks singing the remake that she did of Silly. So I was very excited that I knew that tidbit. But that is a song that Monica sampled, and you can hear that the actual chorus, everything to me. That is that goes along with that little bridge part that is in the song that is just uh music, it's not her singing. So I thought that was pretty dope. Um also the dream sampled the song. I didn't realize that. But um Monica and Williams sang everything to me and Silly together at the BET Awards in 2010. I'm gonna have to check that out. I didn't realize that. So learning something new every day. That's what we do here on my platform. We learn things. So uh, anyway, that's all I have, y'all. Thank y'all for hanging with me. We're gonna go out on some Denise Williams, of course, and I'll catch y'all next Saturday. Peace out.