The Jazz Samples That Built Hip Hop - You'll Hear It | Podcast on Spotify

Diallo Riddle and Luxxury of One Song join Adam and Peter to geek out on deep cuts and the genius behind hip hop’s greatest jazz samples. We explore how s Video • One Song How did a jazz innovator help bring hip-hop into the mainstream with one groundbreaking instrumental? Diallo and LUXXURY explore Herbie Hancock’s 1983 hit “Rockit,” the electro avant-garde experiment that elevated scratching as an art form and ushered jazz into the future. One Song Spotify Playlist Songs Discussed: “Rockit” - Herbie Hancock “I’m Not In Love” - 10cc “Billie Jean” - Michael Jackson “Bring Down the Birds” - Herbie Hancock “Groove Is in the Heart” - Deee-Lite “Watermelon Man” - Herbie Hancock “Escapism (Gettin’ Free)” - Digible Planets “Cantaloupe Island” - Herbie Hancock “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)” - US3 “I Thought It Was You” - Herbie Hancock “Buffalo Gals” - Malcolm McLaren and The World’s Famous Supreme Team “Change the Beat” - Beside “Upper and Lower Egypt” - Pharoah Sanders “It’s Just Begun” - The

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