Can’t Stop Us Now

I love looking out the the source of samples; it’s nice to retrace the steps of producers, and it puts you onto great music via the people who have reused it. This is a particularly good source:

Here’s some examples of this song’s use as a sample, in order of how well I think it was used; it’s interesting that, in different ways, each of these subsequent producers have kind of gone with the same theme and attitude of defiance as the original song, as well as borrowing that distinctive riff:

Nas’s usage is probably the most well known, although in my opinion it’s probably the least effective; although that may because I love the Geedorah track and I have a soft spot for anything the RZA does.