7/17/2023 0 Comments Tick tock you don t stop![]() ![]() The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. More ideas about what's truly original on that program this weekend. SIMON: Guy Raz, host of the TED Radio Hour. Listen to both songs on WhoSampled, the ultimate database of. FRESH: (Singing) La di da di, we like to party. I Wanna Sex You Up by Color Me Badd sampled Doug E. Eliot quote, he might have ripped that off from Picasso. And it does mean that some little kid sitting in his basement in Ohio with a laptop could be making some of the most interesting music around. But it does make for some incredible, exciting art. RONSON: When I see young producers today, like kids who are 19, 20, they stay up all night just sampling straight from YouTube. Eliot said, good artists copy, but great artists steal. MILEY CYRUS: (Singing) La da di da di, we like to party. FRESH: (Singing) La di da di, we like to party. KAYNE WEST: (Singing) You a bad girl, and your friends bad, too. RAZ: That 'party people in the house,' sampled by Beyonce and Kanye West on this track. FRESH: (Singing) OK, party people in the house. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "HOLD IT NOW, HIT IT") RAZ: Way back to the Beastie Boys in 1986. RAZ: And that hit it - just that moment - it's been sampled in hundreds of songs from. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "HERE COMES THE HOT STEPPER") All those soundbites that have become, like. RONSON: And we go a little something like this, hit it. FRESH: (Singing) Tick-tock you don't stop. RONSON: All these little, like, tick-tock you don't stop. RAZ: But what makes "La Di Da Di" more than just a really good rap song is that it's full of these little, lyrical jams that in the world of hip-hop just stick. And it's an incredible song because it's just a beatbox and a rap over it. RONSON: It's literally like Chapter 1 of the hip-hop DJ Bible. RAZ: And back in the early 1990s, if you were a DJ in New York, like Mark was, it was a staple of your set. RAZ: Anyway, the song is called "La Di Da Di." I'm just trying to grab onto the things people might've heard of. I'm trying to grab onto the things people might have heard of. And we heard about the story behind it from Mark Ronson, who's produced records for Amy Winehouse. GUY RAZ, BYLINE: In 1984, the rappers Doug E. Guy Raz at the TED Radio Hour has this look at the track and what it reveals about originality in music. It's been borrowed by hundreds of artists. ![]() This song, it's one of the most sampled songs of all-time. ![]()
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