I think the best example of this is A Tribe Called Quest's "Find A Way". J Dilla uses a Japanese vocal sample (Towa Tei - Technova) but when Q-tip and Phife dawg rap their own chorus over it, they make the original singer sound like she's singing the same lyrics as them, even though it's in an entirely different language!
I never heard this song so had to look it up. As a Towa Tei fan, I noticed it immediately and never would've thought to sample that track like that. Added, it's a sample of a sample!
It’s common technique. You chop a sample and all the syllables mix up into new words. Pete flipped Sugarman into You’re The Man. I’ve done Forget Domani into Get The Money.
You're the fucking genius, you figure out all these tricks and methods, it's really incredible! And what's more, you use FL Studio, which is still laughed at by many producers, but it's such a powerful weapon if you know how to use it. And we all see and hear that you can operate it! Thanks for your great work and much love from Germany ❤
Slum Village ‘Players’ is saying ‘Claire’. Blew my mind then, still does now. Oh, and the snare on ‘Players’ is the clap from ‘Rappers Delight’. Madness.
Jocelyn Flores is a good example also: The Original Sample says: "I know you so well, so well" But XX decided to make "I know you somewhere, somewhere" out of it
Been watching every upload for almost 3 years now..love the personal stories but tutorials are also great. I raged on my FL FIRE controller when Weaver Beats didnt place you on top tier.
Mannn I love the breathe beat, that was cool for me to find out it was Just blaze’s voice. Nice breakdown man, love the way you take about academic stuff like Mggurk effect.
crazy this video just came out.. i accidently did something like this in my last beat... i had to create the phrase i wanted out of the lines being said.. it wasnt as dope as this flip.. but it did open up a bunch of new avenues... you got the best videos on this topic man.. great content
Finally seeing someone give love to Karriem Riggins!! I've sampled his new "To The Jungle" album to the point where I don't have anymore songs to sample. His drums truly are great for what I make. He's mad underrated too, not many people know about him. Haven't listened to his Jahari Massamba Unit (with Madlib), but will do soon!
Just Blaze definitely has a rapper or singer voice and has been on so many songs with it that we don't even realize. "Welcome to New York City" is one where there are no samples and that singing is him.
I knew the I'll Erase Away Your Pain sample before Late came out. I always knew what they were saying. The Breathe manipulation ESPECIALLY was impressive! I spent a LOT of time trying to figure out how he did that! I was familiar with that sample too! Great video as always!
Great video again Navie. My favorite of all time is Slum Village- Players. J Dilla sampled the Singers Unlimited song "Claire" and it sounds like "players" on the instrumental. It's only when I tried remaking the beat in 2010 that I found out about the sample, I was so shocked
I think Dilla was the Djedi of this kind of Subliminals... From Fantastic vol1 to Donuts... Thanks for the channel and for the incredible knowledge that you dropping constantly... Namaste Haribol Asewe!!!
Brilliant video! Now I know the McGurk effect is what I heard on the Nas track "You're the Man" which was sampled from Sixto Rodrigues' song, "Sugar Man". Crazy!
Nav, been following you for years. Mega love for your videos, really helped me. Much appreciated. Could you do a video on Easy Mo Bee? I'd love this. Much love Jeesh..
I make completely random sounds that alongside other instruments and vocals sounds really captivating but is kinda' intangible and hard for people to recognise as even being in the track. I adore this stuff man 🤤
Sometimes some things.. sure.. although, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.. so just practice awareness and allow yourself to form your own perspective.. because that is important too.
Another cool trick by the Alchemist; In Red Dot Music by Mac Miller, (my favourite Mac song btw) The original sample is from a song called "heart's desire" by camel. The part he samples is about 5 seconds into the track where the line goes "the cause invading all the.." it's cut before the end of the sentence. When he sampled it and used it in the context of the song, which is about taking drugs: the line seems as if it's saying "the drugs are taking over". A nice little audio illusion there.
Dilla did it in a lot of his beats. Some that i can think of rn is players, where the sample says claire but the track is named players so thats what you hear. And also on find a way where the sample is in portuguese and q tip just sings over it.
One of my favs is Large Professor's remix of Nas' *It Ain't Hard to tell*. Using BizMark's "Highly recognized as the King of Disco and.." from *Nobody beats the Biz* by chopping the word "recognized to say "Nas Nas Nas Nas is the King of Disco-in'"
My favorite example of the McGurk effect is DMX’s “Dogs Out” (prod. by Kanye) where the hook goes “And the dog is out”, meanwhile in the original sample it says “In the darkest hour”. I was so mindblown when I heard the original song. What’s funny is that Kanye didn’t tweak that sample in any special way (except for speeding it up to match the beat) but the official lyrics also say “And the dog is out” 😂
Great video and breakdown of the samples. My fav was the Alchemist. Its funny though he has a video of him making that beat. He never mentioned the sample disnt say down. The song came to be because the Artist thought it said down too.
I've been bedroom producing for some years now. Mainly experimental and electronic. I very rarely use any vocals, and I tend to use quite a lot of effects for sound design. Often I end up creating sounds that sounds like vocal snippets, even though they're not. Or if I improvise some recordings, then it often sounds like I'm having a conversion with myself through the instrument or effect. I once made the tweaking of a BBD delay sound like someone in the other end of an old phone saying: "can you hear me? Can you hear me?!", but in danish (my main language). Kind of spooky. Almost like some unconsious part of me tried to communicate with me through my own intuitive creative expressions 😅 One trick that I sometimes do when editing a recording of something improvised, is that I'll crossfade 2 different parts together, if I deleted something in between, and then get a totally new sound out of it. If I've overdubbed improvisations from different instruments, then I'll often take some parts down in volume until it sounds like it's part of another sound playing at the same time, like layering.
Just blaze actually chopped the hold you down sample like that first on a song called ‘Soon you’ll understand’ on Jay-Zs Dynasty album, four years before Alc made Hold you down…
I KNEW they wasn't sayin breathe, but always wondered, but was too lazy to find out, wtf were they really saying in the sample... thank you for this ! ! !
With regards to Hold You Down - I was ALWAYS convinced something was not right about the word "down." This was a big song back when I was into mainstream rap, heard it all the time, and I just never could convince myself that the word was "down." "Well the song is called "Hold You Down"", all my friends would say.
That Alchemist example is very good and I'm glad you're pointing that out, but from my personal experience I've done similar things but its not always intentional. Its very possible that he chopped those two parts together while just experimenting and then heard "hold you down", so that was what he named the song because it's what his brain was hearing. Basically, he mcgurked himself. Not necessarily of course, just saying that this effect tends to happen more by accident than doing it intentionally.
Nice video, Biz Markie was used in Nas "It Ain't Hard To Tell" [Large Professor Remix]...sounds like Biz is saying Nas, but he’s saying "Recognize" from the classic hit "Make the Music with Your Mouth"
My favorite "McGurk effect" is when Jay Dilla produced a song for Slum Village called "Players". He actually sampled a song by The Singers Unlimited called "Clair".
I listen to that alchemist song still to this day . ALL THE TIME. Part of the rotation when I turn my music on ! One of my favs . I heard it when I was in like 7th grade . N I remember always sayin. Dayum that’s a tight song ! lol
😮😮Yo that is Maaaad Deep, cause i was already familiar with that Hold you down sample from when Jay z used it on the Dynasty album. Soon you'll understand was already catalogued in my brain and i still intepreted as hold you Down when that version dropped
The Alchemist one got me for sure. When I saw J. Dilla I thought you were going to use Slum Village "Players" which samples "Clair" by The Singers Unlimited it's one of my favorite McGurk effect songs.
What ruins the magic behind mine is that it's easy. But not for others, I guess. It's also by ear, mostly. But I'm kinda proud of that. As of ideas, there's not many, but they always seemed heard before. Seemed! Even when I was sure. Looking forward to buy Ableton someday! And I also have another one. A good one! And there is also something nobody knows about...
this video makes me want to get FL studio! I've been using GarageBand and Audacity to cut samples and make beats (I'm new to this and didn't want to spend too much money) but it seems tedious sometimes when I see how FL makes the process a bit easier in some ways.
Another similar example of this is “extendo” by young nudy and uzi produced by pierre. The sample is originally saying “there you go” but it is picthed up and an “s” sound is added so it sounds like it’s saying “stendo.”
I think the best example of this is A Tribe Called Quest's "Find A Way".
J Dilla uses a Japanese vocal sample (Towa Tei - Technova) but when Q-tip and Phife dawg rap their own chorus over it, they make the original singer sound like she's singing the same lyrics as them, even though it's in an entirely different language!
Damn... I was just about to type the same thing!!! Perfect example!!! I was floored when I heard the actual words from the sample.
“Find a Way” is definetly the first time I got McGurked
As far as I know "find a way" samples a song in Brazilian Portuguese
I never heard this song so had to look it up. As a Towa Tei fan, I noticed it immediately and never would've thought to sample that track like that. Added, it's a sample of a sample!
@@Sonic-qc5cq you’re both right, its a collab between Towa Tei (japanese) and Bebel Gilberto (brazilian) who sings in portuguese
never noticed “light up the spliffs” 🔥
Dilla was king at creating whole other sentences with his chops (players, stop, and lightworks to name a few)
It is so crazy
When first noticed it I thought I was trippin 😮💨💨🤯
Another crazy one in donuts is on “stop!”
He chopped up jadakiss’s vocals to say “is death real”
That's because it's jive.
Also on J Dilla's track 'Stop' from 'Donuts' Jadakiss sounds like he is saying "is death real?"
And Kanye's 'Through the wire' comes to mind of course
Yeah Dilla has many of these, especially on Donuts
@@NavieDRight, Claire = Players (SV) is kinda the most famous one.
30 hours break down was EXACTLY what i was thinking about last week oh my god. one of my favorite sample uses and that bassline is sooo good
yea but i actually knew abt this one bc of the lyrics on spotify
You spelt Midas wrong
i thought it said “Where the Owls Go.” ??
It’s common technique. You chop a sample and all the syllables mix up into new words. Pete flipped Sugarman into You’re The Man. I’ve done Forget Domani into Get The Money.
SUgarman is a deep cut. Sixto is awesome and so underrated
Kanye loves making new phrases out of the original ones in the sample
Through the wire
The whole industry does it. That's why the game isn't innovative. It's copy cut. If you sample flip, do it cold. Make it timeless.
@@josephhall5884 kanye’s flips sounds timeless to me
it's nothing new in c-rap culture.
Kim said the same thing lol.
"Hold You Down" definitely got me. It's insane how I never knew that this whole time. Classic song
That beat is ILLLLLL
Fabolous - Breathe BANGER 🔥
Man “30 Hours” beat is legendary.
I LOVE the Kanye Late beat, underrated, I didn’t know all of this. Was very interesting, great content!
Thank you Scott!
Another example of the McGurk effect from J Dilla was Slum Village Players where the sample actually says “Claire” 🤯
You're the fucking genius, you figure out all these tricks and methods, it's really incredible! And what's more, you use FL Studio, which is still laughed at by many producers, but it's such a powerful weapon if you know how to use it. And we all see and hear that you can operate it! Thanks for your great work and much love from Germany ❤
My theory = people who laugh at FL Studio have low-self esteem
From what I've seen, a lot of producers use fl... Def not all but a good chunk
Your videos shifted my mindset of sampling multiple times at this point
Kanye also did this on "Through the wire" where in the sample we can hear "through the fire"
Slum Village ‘Players’ is saying ‘Claire’. Blew my mind then, still does now. Oh, and the snare on ‘Players’ is the clap from ‘Rappers Delight’. Madness.
Also shocked this wasn't included. That whole beat is ridiculous
Every time I hear that song I say "you wanna be some CLA-IRE"
hold you down has me going crazy wtf i can’t unhear stan 😭😭😭😭
So good, Navie! Appreciate the history and technique you drop!
Wait…light up the SPLIFFS!?! For 17 years I’ve been hearing light up the space…😮🤯🤕! Dilla is still changing my life decades later, just…wow!
SAME
This is some next level info!! Nice work!!
Genius😂 @Navie D your breakdowns are 2nd to none 💯 learning a lot here😎 much appreciated
Thank you my friend
Jocelyn Flores is a good example also:
The Original Sample says: "I know you so well, so well"
But XX decided to make "I know you somewhere, somewhere" out of it
Been watching every upload for almost 3 years now..love the personal stories but tutorials are also great. I raged on my FL FIRE controller when Weaver Beats didnt place you on top tier.
Mannn I love the breathe beat, that was cool for me to find out it was Just blaze’s voice. Nice breakdown man, love the way you take about academic stuff like Mggurk effect.
crazy this video just came out.. i accidently did something like this in my last beat... i had to create the phrase i wanted out of the lines being said.. it wasnt as dope as this flip.. but it did open up a bunch of new avenues... you got the best videos on this topic man.. great content
Fun fact but Pete Rock did the mcgurt effect before all of them with a song called I gotta love. Dope shit tho
Finally seeing someone give love to Karriem Riggins!! I've sampled his new "To The Jungle" album to the point where I don't have anymore songs to sample. His drums truly are great for what I make. He's mad underrated too, not many people know about him. Haven't listened to his Jahari Massamba Unit (with Madlib), but will do soon!
Just Blaze definitely has a rapper or singer voice and has been on so many songs with it that we don't even realize. "Welcome to New York City" is one where there are no samples and that singing is him.
I knew the I'll Erase Away Your Pain sample before Late came out. I always knew what they were saying. The Breathe manipulation ESPECIALLY was impressive! I spent a LOT of time trying to figure out how he did that! I was familiar with that sample too! Great video as always!
love these videos brother
thank you for what you do
Nice breakdown, great video as usual!
Thank you very much sir
Bruh the shaker on “Late” blew my mind 🤯
Wow! You are so on point!
This is like a more subtle version of how YTPs are created
Hold You Down my favourite sample of ALL time
This is amazing 🔥
This is just great producing.
this is genius..DJ Premier sure was the greatest at this. not just his sampling but also his scratches were god tier and often deceptive
"You're The Man" by Nas is another example of this, too. Great work on this vid.
Great video again Navie. My favorite of all time is Slum Village- Players. J Dilla sampled the Singers Unlimited song "Claire" and it sounds like "players" on the instrumental. It's only when I tried remaking the beat in 2010 that I found out about the sample, I was so shocked
Great video and content man! Creative. Good job!
I think Dilla was the Djedi of this kind of Subliminals... From Fantastic vol1 to Donuts... Thanks for the channel and for the incredible knowledge that you dropping constantly...
Namaste Haribol Asewe!!!
Absolutely amazing very observant of you brother
Bro wishing us a good weekend on a Tuesday
LOVE these videos
Brilliant video! Now I know the McGurk effect is what I heard on the Nas track "You're the Man" which was sampled from Sixto Rodrigues' song, "Sugar Man". Crazy!
30 hrs all time favorite 🔥
that last song had to have been a sample of Arthur Russell. Such a brilliant musician who came to an early sad demise. rip
Nav, been following you for years. Mega love for your videos, really helped me. Much appreciated. Could you do a video on Easy Mo Bee? I'd love this. Much love Jeesh..
Navie D def the goat producing youtuber
your recreation game is crazy bro
J-dilla one is just absurd. That's the best one by a pretty large margin imo.
I make completely random sounds that alongside other instruments and vocals sounds really captivating but is kinda' intangible and hard for people to recognise as even being in the track.
I adore this stuff man 🤤
Very Interesting! Thank you for sharing.
I have been McGurked many times it seems, lol.
Breathe is 1 of the best beats in history of music
Sometimes some things.. sure.. although, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.. so just practice awareness and allow yourself to form your own perspective.. because that is important too.
Another cool trick by the Alchemist;
In Red Dot Music by Mac Miller, (my favourite Mac song btw)
The original sample is from a song called "heart's desire" by camel. The part he samples is about 5 seconds into the track where the line goes "the cause invading all the.." it's cut before the end of the sentence. When he sampled it and used it in the context of the song, which is about taking drugs: the line seems as if it's saying "the drugs are taking over". A nice little audio illusion there.
"light up the spliffs" - j dilla
Dilla did it in a lot of his beats.
Some that i can think of rn is players, where the sample says claire but the track is named players so thats what you hear.
And also on find a way where the sample is in portuguese and q tip just sings over it.
The best ones gotta be the nas song you’re the man, using a sample from sugar man
One of my favs is Large Professor's remix of Nas' *It Ain't Hard to tell*.
Using BizMark's "Highly recognized as the King of Disco and.." from *Nobody beats the Biz* by chopping the word "recognized to say "Nas Nas Nas Nas is the King of Disco-in'"
video isn’t finished and I can already sense the ‘Late’ comparison coming up
Daft punk used similar technique in Face to Face, they used 9 samples to create lines "you are, face to face now"
Light up the spliffs lmao 🤣 damn
My favorite example of the McGurk effect is DMX’s “Dogs Out” (prod. by Kanye) where the hook goes “And the dog is out”, meanwhile in the original sample it says “In the darkest hour”. I was so mindblown when I heard the original song.
What’s funny is that Kanye didn’t tweak that sample in any special way (except for speeding it up to match the beat) but the official lyrics also say “And the dog is out” 😂
On to the next -swizz beats and Jay
Wish we heard more from Just nowadays... his chops are legendary.
Great video and breakdown of the samples.
My fav was the Alchemist. Its funny though he has a video of him making that beat. He never mentioned the sample disnt say down.
The song came to be because the Artist thought it said down too.
I've been bedroom producing for some years now. Mainly experimental and electronic. I very rarely use any vocals, and I tend to use quite a lot of effects for sound design. Often I end up creating sounds that sounds like vocal snippets, even though they're not. Or if I improvise some recordings, then it often sounds like I'm having a conversion with myself through the instrument or effect.
I once made the tweaking of a BBD delay sound like someone in the other end of an old phone saying: "can you hear me? Can you hear me?!", but in danish (my main language). Kind of spooky. Almost like some unconsious part of me tried to communicate with me through my own intuitive creative expressions 😅
One trick that I sometimes do when editing a recording of something improvised, is that I'll crossfade 2 different parts together, if I deleted something in between, and then get a totally new sound out of it. If I've overdubbed improvisations from different instruments, then I'll often take some parts down in volume until it sounds like it's part of another sound playing at the same time, like layering.
Just blaze actually chopped the hold you down sample like that first on a song called ‘Soon you’ll understand’ on Jay-Zs Dynasty album, four years before Alc made Hold you down…
That 30 Hours example blew my mind
I KNEW they wasn't sayin breathe, but always wondered, but was too lazy to find out, wtf were they really saying in the sample... thank you for this ! ! !
With regards to Hold You Down - I was ALWAYS convinced something was not right about the word "down." This was a big song back when I was into mainstream rap, heard it all the time, and I just never could convince myself that the word was "down." "Well the song is called "Hold You Down"", all my friends would say.
🤔🔥great insight
That Alchemist example is very good and I'm glad you're pointing that out, but from my personal experience I've done similar things but its not always intentional. Its very possible that he chopped those two parts together while just experimenting and then heard "hold you down", so that was what he named the song because it's what his brain was hearing. Basically, he mcgurked himself. Not necessarily of course, just saying that this effect tends to happen more by accident than doing it intentionally.
My personal favorite example of this is Timbaland's sample of Nina Simone's "Sinnerman", making it soung like shes saying " Oh Timbaland".
Yes this one was awesome.
you shouldve also covered "back again" by dilated peoples, the way they flip "in the hearts of men" to "in the house again" is crazy
Nice video, Biz Markie was used in Nas "It Ain't Hard To Tell" [Large Professor Remix]...sounds like Biz is saying Nas, but he’s saying "Recognize" from the classic hit "Make the Music with Your Mouth"
My favorite "McGurk effect" is when Jay Dilla produced a song for Slum Village called "Players". He actually sampled a song by The Singers Unlimited called "Clair".
This guy is a genius
great video. sometimes stuff just happens or it was meant to be imo. the cult of stan.
I listen to that alchemist song still to this day . ALL THE TIME. Part of the rotation when I turn my music on ! One of my favs . I heard it when I was in like 7th grade . N I remember always sayin. Dayum that’s a tight song ! lol
I've watched a bunch of ur vids in no particular order, but this shit right here?!?! B R A V Ø!!! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
You ruined my childhood bro. Now I'll never listen to hold you down the same way again
Hold You Stan is also a beautiful song though!
Anybody who’s heard soon you’ll understand by Jay Zalready knew this was the same sample and it had been flipped to sound different
Tribe or Dilla find a way.
Truuue. She is just talking Japanese in that sample I believe?
was looking for this comment
@@NavieDi always thought it was portuguese but i could be wrong
It was Brazilian Portuguese @@NavieD
@@LLusionYeah, it was Brazilian Portuguese
Ok this was solid 👍.
“Pierre Bourne, Nudy, & Lil Uzi - Extendo” is my favorite example‼️
Why did his name have to be McGurk?? Lol There's always an amusing sounding name for these kind of things.
Loved this. Cheers!
The first time I McGurked was at age 13, and I felt very ashamed afterwards
@@NavieDyou should call it the Vsauce effect instead 😂
Lool
😮😮Yo that is Maaaad Deep, cause i was already familiar with that Hold you down sample from when Jay z used it on the Dynasty album. Soon you'll understand was already catalogued in my brain and i still intepreted as hold you Down when that version dropped
The Alchemist one got me for sure. When I saw J. Dilla I thought you were going to use Slum Village "Players" which samples "Clair" by The Singers Unlimited it's one of my favorite McGurk effect songs.
What ruins the magic behind mine is that it's easy. But not for others, I guess. It's also by ear, mostly. But I'm kinda proud of that. As of ideas, there's not many, but they always seemed heard before. Seemed! Even when I was sure. Looking forward to buy Ableton someday! And I also have another one. A good one! And there is also something nobody knows about...
The first beat that came to mind was Late by Kanye
You read my mindddd
this video makes me want to get FL studio! I've been using GarageBand and Audacity to cut samples and make beats (I'm new to this and didn't want to spend too much money) but it seems tedious sometimes when I see how FL makes the process a bit easier in some ways.
Another similar example of this is “extendo” by young nudy and uzi produced by pierre. The sample is originally saying “there you go” but it is picthed up and an “s” sound is added so it sounds like it’s saying “stendo.”
thanks benzema!
crazy... I gotta try this!
Best of luck to you Katy
@@NavieD Thanks! fingers crossed!
remindes me in someway of ol shool turntablists and beat/word cuts in beatjuggling.
Also on drake's "one dance" the intro of kyra says "baby i like your style" but it's not style, it's "stow"
This video was fire.
The late one is so classic
Great vid