Sample This!: My Life

On this week's Sample This, we have My Life by Mary J Blige! Do you know what song is sampled? Tune in to find out! 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Hey yo, what is up everybody? What is going on? It's your girl Jay. We are back with another Sample Saturday, and this is Sample This. Tell me. Have you heard this song before?

SPEAKER_02 0:50

If you like to lie, speak with that. If you let them a lie, speak with us. If you let them lie, speak with that me. Stick with us. I can be only what you make. When you're feeling down, you should never fake it. Stay what's on your mind. And you'll find it time then all the negative energy. It will look sea. And you'll be at peace with yourself. You won't really need no one. Because my life see what I see. Oh you see, I'm so if you look to my light, I'm not to do what say. If you talk to my life, if you look at my light, see what I see.

SPEAKER_03 2:41

That was Mary J. Blige, and the song is called My Life. Um up until right now, I did not realize that song was never released. So again, my mind plays tricks on me because I thought, surely everybody knows this song, because everybody played it, but it was never released. So I don't know if anybody ever, if everybody played it. Only those who really listen to Mary J. Blige knows and has heard this song. Um, for my knowledge, everybody that I know knows this song, but maybe some of you listening have never heard this song. So yes, this is My Life by Mary J. Blige. It was uh released on, well not released, it's a song on her album that was released in 1994 of the same title. It was called My Life and Um Beautiful album, by the way. Beautiful album. I'm definitely going to I'm gonna have to plug one of my other shows. I'm definitely gonna have to do a replay, yay or nay, on my life, um, which you can find on Patreon. So patreon.com slash J Spot Network. Shameless plug. Go check that out. Where I listen to albums that or I re-listen or revisit albums that I used to jam back in the day, and then I listen to them today to see if they still hit. So I feel like my life probably still hits. I'm I make it um I make it a point to not listen to to full albums right now. Since I'm doing this series, I can go back and like, oh yeah, I remember this song, but I played my life so much, honestly, it don't even matter. It probably like is like I'm just hearing it for the first time. Like it's like I just heard it yesterday. Like I'm I play it so much, but anyway, my life was the title track off of um her album My Life, and it does feature or does have a sample. So have you guys heard what the sample is? Do you know what the sample is? If not, you're in luck, because we're about to listen to it right now. And the sunshine everybody loves the sunshine sunshine everybody loves the sunshine sunshine folks get down in the sunshine sunshine folks get round in the sunshine Just beats and things and follow us Just beats and things and follow us Just beats and things and follow us Just beats and things and follow us My life my life my life my life and the sunshine Everybody loves the sunshine So that is Roy Ayers and the song is called Everybody Loves the Sunshine. It was released in 1976, it peaked at number 51 on the Billboard 200 charts, and in 2016 Pitchfork placed the title track at number 72 on the 200 best songs of the 1970s list. So I don't know a whole lot about this um this artist or this song. Like I know who he is, I know he's very well known. A lot of his music has been sampled, but you know, that's back in the 70s, and I just wasn't uh uh privy to a lot of information about him prior to this. But um, just so you know, everybody loves the sunshine has been covered or sampled by D'Angelo, uh Robert Glasper, obviously uh Mary J, Dr. Dre, and Tupac, to name a few. And it has been sampled nearly 200 times. So I've only heard it at the top of my head. I'm only thinking about my life, but it could be obviously as other songs out there. So that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool to know. And you can clearly hear, um, you can clearly hear the sample in it. Obviously, you can hear it. So, without further ado, that is it. That's all I have. I hope you guys are enjoying these. Again, check out Mary J. Blige, my life, if you have not, and then go ahead and give Roy Ayres some streams. Go ahead and do that. So we'll go out with his song. I'll talk to y'all next Saturday.

SPEAKER_01 8:46

Peace out in the sunshine. Do what I do and I do what I do and I do it in the sunshine. Everybody loves the sunshine.