Sample This!: Something Keeps Pulling Me Back

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_00 0:00

Hey yo, what is up, everybody? What's going on? It is Sample Saturday. You know what that means. It's time for another edition of Sample This. Tell me. Have y'all ever heard this song?

SPEAKER_04 0:28

I know what's wrong, I know what's right. I see the truth, but I stay blind. I say I'm fine, but I know there's no hope inside. Can't even take my own advice. Even though you be showing signs. Maybe you go your way so alive. Maybe I got so much to say. Like I'm having that from the waste. Cause every time I try to leave, something keep pullin' me back. Every time I try to leave, something keep pullin' me back. So I'm just won't let up, let up. Every time I try to leave, something keep pulling me back.

SPEAKER_00 1:29

Alright, that was something keeps pulling me back by none other than the H E R herself, her. And that is off her album. I used to know her. It's a compilation album. I don't know. When I first discovered it, it was two volumes, volume one, volume two. I used to know her. She was teasing a debut album that we didn't get for like another year after that. But she released a I think it was like six songs. Say that I used to know her, part one or volume one or whatever. And then um she released another six to seven songs and said that was volume two, and then ended up putting them together and making a a full album, I guess. And then that one was submitted for Grammy. She won Grammys off this album, she won Grammys off her um wasn't even her dup debut album, her first compilation album, which was self-titled. Um, but anyway, this song immediately of course again, if you grew up in the early 2000s, 90s, you probably know where uh this song, uh, what sample this song uses. Now, this is a tricky one because she samples a song that also samples a song, and we're gonna get into all of that. So just in case you don't know or you don't remember what song she samples, check it out.

SPEAKER_02 2:59

Every time I try to leave, something keeps pulling me back, me back, telling me I need you and you lady what I'm gonna do. Every time I try to leave, something keeps telling me that me that's a lot of gotta do it. Every time I try to leave, something keeps pulling me back, me back, telling me I need something on the middle. It was made to be I know what it's been with, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:33

My life's not in the line, like that, I'm gonna like the work got the world for the clean up with me, the trackin' all the girls I'm a stoop, it's all in the room with it, and oh just got the bed of one with it, but I'm on the road for me.

unknown 3:58

More like a snake of me.

SPEAKER_01 4:00

I'm not thinking of the next one, but I'm not a woman to make it understand her looking crazy like a bad thing.

SPEAKER_02 4:15

Telling me I need you in my life. Every time I try to go, something keeps telling me that, me back. Everything gon' before. Every time I try to leave, something keeps pulling me back, me back. Telling me I need you in my life.

unknown 4:30

It was meant to be.

SPEAKER_00 4:33

Now, do y'all remember that song? Chingy Pulling Me Back featuring Tyrese. It was released in 2006. I remember this song. I remember this song because it had Rudy in it, Keisha Knight pulley him. And I hadn't seen her. This is like the video came out. I don't remember seeing her as an adult very often. Like once she was done with the Cosby show, we didn't really see that much from her. I think she went to school and did some other stuff. Excuse me. But we didn't see her in in the light of being an adult. And then Chingy had her in his video as the bank teller, if y'all remember, back then. And so I like the song because I knew the song contained another sample that we're gonna get into. Um so I liked the song. I like the song because of the sample, and then I saw, you know, key Keisha Knight Pulum is in the video. Tyrese at the time was uh nearing the top of his game, so he was a popular singer. So seeing all that, it was very, a very popular song. Um, it was retired on 106 in park after being on a countdown for 65 days. Y'all know it was a hot thing back then. It peaked at number one on both the Billboard Hot RB and RB songs and hot rap songs charts, giving Chingy his first and third number one hits uh respectively. The song also peaked at number nine on the hot 100, making it uh his fourth and final top ten single. Now, do you know what song? Do you know what song he is sampling? Y'all have to know it. Now y'all have to know this. Like this again is from a very popular, it was a very popular song which I felt at some point really got played out, but then Chingy brought it back, and so um it came back around. But tell me, tell me, tell me you've heard this song. All right, y'all have to know that, right? SWV Rain. It was released in 1998, February 24th. It was a single from SWV's third album, Release Some Tension. Um, and let me see. It was, it peaked at number 25 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and number seven on the U.S. Hot RB and Hip Hop Songs Chart, becoming the album's highest charted single after someone. Um singer and actor Tyrese Gibson appeared in the music video for Rain, which was directed by Darren Grant. I didn't I didn't realize that. I don't even think I remember what the video looked like. Now that I think about it. So that kind of makes it's kind of ironic or it's kind of cool that Tyrese been in the Rain video then went and remade the song or did a sample of a song with Chingy. I wonder if that was intentional. I didn't realize that. But here's another thing I didn't realize about Rain that I I bet you guys didn't realize about Rain. Rain was written and produced by Brian Alexander Morgan, and it was initially intended for singer Brandy's second studio album, Never Say Never, before it was ultimately recorded by SWV and put on their third album. Can you imagine Brandy singing Rain? Can you imagine this song being on Never Say Never, Brandy Heads, if you're out there? Can y'all imagine that? Like, I'm sure there's some AI thing you could put in and put Brandy's voice, say Brandy's, you know, never say never voice or 90s voice singing rain, and we could we could hear what that would sound like, but that's crazy. I did not know that. I didn't I wasn't aware of that. Another thing I wasn't aware of is that rain actually contains a sample. I had no idea. This it samples a um song called Port Portrait of Tracy by Jaco Pastorius. I've never heard of who that person is, never heard the song, did not know it was a did not know it was a sample. That song came out in 1976, and it was named after Jaco's or Jacko, I don't know how how you pronounce his name, after his first wife, uh Tracy Sexton. And you know what we're gonna do? If we can find it, we might as well go ahead and and listen to listen to that, see what that sounds like. So let's see if we can check that out. You know, like just re-remix it or remake it and sample the whole song. There are sometimes people take like a little bit of a song and turn it into something else. So as you heard portraits of Tracy, it's like just the very beginning is what we know as rain or the music from rain, and then it goes completely left, and and he's playing something else. I ain't gonna lie, like I'm sure he's a genius and is great. It sounds like me when I was first trying to learn how to play the guitar. Like you just you're just drumming chords together, you're trying to figure out something that makes some kind of you know, uh a good, a good note or a good chord or whatever, you're just playing notes just to see what comes out of it. But listen, geniuses or whatever. I don't know nothing about this guy. I don't know if he's a genius, I don't want to say that. But sometimes in your musical, like as you're doing things with music, sometimes things come out in a way that maybe we don't understand, but maybe somebody back in the day. But this was, you know, 19 1976, I believe is what I said. So that was very informative and educational for me. And I hope it was the same for you. I think this is the first time. Well, I know this is the first time where I've done four songs. We go, we go all the way back to the original uh sample, which was pretty cool. But we're not gonna go out on Jaco's song or Jack O's song, we're gonna go out on the song that we know, which is uh Rain by SWV. So I hope you guys enjoyed this um episode, and again, I'll see y'all next Saturday. Peace out.