Hip-Hop's Top Ten Otis Redding Samples
Categories: Big Daddy Kane, Cappadonna, Das EFX, EPMD, Geto Boys, Ghostface Killah, Lists, Marley Marl, Otis Redding, Phillip Mlynar, UMCs
"Otis" fever is in full effect, thanks to the Otis Redding-sampling song from Jay-Z and Kanye West's much-ballyhooed Watch The Throne project leaking Wednesday night. The track's production, based around a slick chop of Redding's "Try A Little Tenderness," might be the most impressive thing about the song, what with Jay-Z largely forgoing rapping for doing that breathless thing which suggests not so much an economy of breath control as him realizing that he can mumble anything and fans will still give him pots of money. But anyway. In celebration of "Otis," here are ten other royal rap flips of Redding's music.
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