Top 10 Samples in Hip-Hop History #42 (The Question to the Ultimate Answer of Life, the Universe and Everything)

(3/11/52-5/11/01) 

Janx Spirit is a rather potent alcoholic beverage, and is used heavily in drinking games that are played in the hyperspace ports that serve the madranite mining belts in the star system of Orion Beta.

The game is not unlike the Earth game called Indian Wrestling, and is played like this:

Two contestants sit at either side of a table, with a glass in front of each of them.

Between them would be placed a bottle of Janx Spirit (as immortalized in that ancient Orion mining song "Oh don't give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ No, don't you give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ For my head will fly, my tongue will lie, my eyes will fry and I may die/ Won't you pour me one more of that sinful Old Janx Spirit").

Each of the two contestants would then concentrate their will on the bottle and attempt to tip it and pour spirit into the glass of his opponent-who would then have to drink it.

The bottle would then be refilled. The game would be played again. And again.

Once you started to lose you would probably keep losing, because one of the effects of Janx spirit is to depress telepsychic power.

As soon as a predetermined quantity had been consumed, the final loser would have to perform a forfeit, which was usually obscenely biological.

Douglas Adams usually played to lose yet he always knew where his towel was.

1) Sardines ~ Junk Yard Band

• She's Crafty - Beastie Boys
• Clock Strikes (remix) - Timbaland & Magoo

2) Brothers on the Slide ~ Cymande

• Cedar - MF DOOM (Metal Fingers)
• Peep Da Flavor - Poison Clan

3) The Nitty Gritty ~ Shirley Ellis

Peep Out the Gladys Knight version below.....

• Nitty Gritty (remix) - KMD ft. Brand Nubian

4) Knock Him Out Sugar Ray ~ Experience Unlimited a/k/a E.U.

• And It’s Us - Cold Crush Brothers
• Bring the Beat Back - Steady B
• Radio - Eazy-E
• Knock Em Out Sugar Ray - MC Sugar Ray & Stranger D
• Revolutionary Generation - Public Enemy
• Where It’s At - Beck

5) Rise Sally Rise ~ Nat Adderley

• Juice (Know the Ledge) - Eric B & Rakim

6) Pass the Peas ~ The JB’s

• Have A Nice Day - Roxanne Shante
• I Ain’t No Joke - Eric B & Rakim
• Move the Crowd - Eric B & Rakim
• Pass the Plugs - De La Soul
• Get Loud - Kings of Rapp
• The Overweight Lover’s in the House - Heavy D
• One in a Million - Pete Rock & CL Smooth
• Talking Sense - Stezo
• Self Destruction - Stop the Violence Movement
• Move Your Body - Tyree ft. J.M.D.
• Pump That Body - Mr. Lee

7) Hot Pants Road ~ The JB’s

• Fight the Power - Public Enemy
• Move the Crowd - Eric B & Rakim
• Have a Nice Day - Roxanne Shante
• Overweight Lover’s…House - Heavy D
• Kemit-Cal Reaction - Two Kings in a Cipher

8) I Got Some ~ Sugar Billy (Garner)

• B.Y.S. (Bust Yo Shit) - Gang Starr
• Work the Angles - Dilated Peoples “BABU”
• Love to Hate - Kanye West / Busta Rhymes

9) Uphill Peace of Mind ~ Kid Dynamite

• Trilogy of Terror - Kool G Rap & DJ Polo
• Going Way Back - Just-Ice
• Eazy Street - Eazy-E
• Times Are Getting’ Ill - Rob Base
• Feelin’ It - Ultramagnetic MC’s
• Bad Sister - Roxanne Shante
• Contract on the World Love Jam - Public Enemy
• Shakiyla - Poor Righteous Teachers
• Rappin’ Black - Poor Righteous Teachers
• 1-900 Dial A Crook - Convicts / Geto Boys
• Nuttin’ But A G Thang - Dr. Dre
• Shit is Real - Fat Joe
• Live Fast, Die Young - Rick Ross / Kanye

10) Bustin Loose' ~ Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers

• Bustin' Loose - Alliance
• Freak the Funk - Stezo
• Bustin' Loose - 3 Spinmasters
• Eric B Made My Day - Eric B & Rakim
• Say Kids (What Time Is it?) - Coldcut
• Hot in Herre - Nelly
• All Together Now - The Farm
• I Ain’t Mad At All - Public Enemy

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