Managed to finally solve the final piece recently in a doubly perplexing puzzle which consisted of two samples used on Andre Nickatina's rap song, I'm a Pisces.
Identifying their origins became something of an obsession ever since I first heard the song on an ancient rap forum. Had a hunch they were both sourced from films, but I was never 100% sure, however. Turns out I was right after all these years:
Chanced upon randomly watching The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) on TV many years ago and hearing Bernard Herrmann's Cobra Dance was a eureka moment. The music in question occurs during the scene where the villainous sorceror, Sokurah, melds a handmaiden in a giant clay vase with a cobra, like a progenator to the Brundlefly. With the aid of Ray Harryhausen's ace stop-motion mastery, the snake woman dances before the sultan's royal court. Knew this wasn't some obscure song from a far off continent, but taken from a vintage Hollywood film. Took some years to finally realise it, though.
Would have loved it if the vocal sample from the start of the song was a similar discovery to the one above, but this was a lot more straight forward - Googling! Yes, it took decades until your host realised he could do a simple Google search. Lo and behold it turned out to be from a Fred Williamson film called Death Journey (1976). The dialogue in question appears at 58 minutes and 21 seconds into the film, but you can hear a part of it in the trailer, too. Thus, the final piece in the puzzle which has antagonised the little grey cells for so long has finally been laid to rest.
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Nickatina posts on Dadadebaser, you've gotta love it.
Well spotted. Was it on Philaflava you first heard Nickatina? I definitely downloaded a few of his albums from the old NorCal thread on there.
Not sure which thread it was, but the first time I ever heard the Nickatina song was on Philaflava, when someone asked about the intro's source. Both that and the Hermann sample were torturing me ever since.
Glory dayz of M2C.
Definitely.
Tried searching for the thread; nothing Nickatina related before 2017, sadly.
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