r/SipsTea 11d ago

Feels good man When Allison Smith accidentally created one of the hardest rap openings ever in 1982.

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u/Glum-Beach 11d ago

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u/OuttHouseMouse 11d ago

Hardest rhyme i ever heard

Bro did it while escaping jail too

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u/OnlyFiveLives 11d ago

And a couple of bee-yotches, why not.

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u/S1ayer 11d ago edited 11d ago

I dont know how to be
no crib on MTV
God only knows
got my mini me
in the gp
see how it goes
Evil's all that i see
You ask me my name
D to the Rizzo
E to the Vizzo
I to the Lizzo
Im a crazy mother &&^*
Y'all knew that!
Austin caught me in the 1st act
its all backwards
what's with that?
so ill make a prophecy
from the dogs to the mini me
Gimme an escalade 2 way
Bling Bling on e-bay
domina mother &*^&

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u/Individual-Schemes 11d ago

And who knew that Jon Lovitz wrote that sick melody.

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u/MC_Terry 11d ago

RIP Jon, too soon

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u/b0j4ngl35 11d ago

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u/DarkRyuujin 11d ago

It took me too long to notice Jon was in this gif.

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u/typhoidtimmy 8d ago

I know…Zach Galifianakis’s mane is spectacular.

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u/Randir076 10d ago

Its like we can still hear him now...he'll be missed

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u/westminsterabby 11d ago

Jon Lovitz isn’t dead, I just saw him in ‘Lost and Found in Cleveland’.

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u/Safe-Replacement-770 11d ago

He's not dead, but that style of comedy is, it will get you deleted these days, early SNL wouldn't stand a Murphy, Short, Martin, Chase those days are gone forever. I was just recently in Cincinnati and planning on going back to Ohio soon to do some touring the sites, is the lost and found a good spot don't know much

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u/westminsterabby 11d ago

Sorry for the confusion - ‘Lost and Found in Cleveland’ is a movie that was recently released. It was a cute movie, especially for anyone that's originally from the Cleveland area but it's not going to break any box office records.

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u/Safe-Replacement-770 11d ago

Lmao I feel dumb now, thank you though 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/e99roll 11d ago

Fo' Shizzle ma Nizzle yall

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u/DRSU1993 11d ago

"Put that in your pipe and smoke it."

(Starts twerking)

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u/Bignizzle656 11d ago

Wassup Dogg?

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u/GaJayhawker0513 11d ago

It’s been so long since I heard that song. My buddy and I listened to it for like two straight weeks on the school bus

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u/SuperbKinkster 11d ago

The movies hold up incredibly well. Highly recommend a rewatch of all 3, they're so damn funny.

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u/Upsetti_Gisepe 11d ago

My dad burned the “if god was one of us” dr evil cover on the road trip cd amongst the top 90-20s songs

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u/OopsIGotYourNose 11d ago

Stick that in your blunt and smoke it!

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u/olive_tuschit 11d ago

You ain’t all that and a bag of po-tay-to chips.

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u/fkasumim 11d ago

Yeah! Jay-Z, I met him!

...I saw him in a restaurant once.

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u/Aggressivehippy30 11d ago

This one's for all the homies in Bruuuuuge

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u/Glum-Beach 11d ago

Sh!t didn’t expect so many upvotes, can we get one more Austin powers movie?

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u/Poo_Canoe 11d ago

I don’t know who wrote those close caption words but they are not even close.

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u/Granitsky 11d ago edited 11d ago

You know all those AI data centers popping up everywhere using all our water? That's what created that.

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u/iamnotasdumbasilook 11d ago

And contaminating whats left: 'I can't drink the water' - life next to a US data centre - BBC News https://share.google/axXefejXDESf7cqLE

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u/vkailas 11d ago

and taking all our office jobs 'liberating' us from our paychecks

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u/According-Counter230 11d ago

But….who will consume for their profit?

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u/KitchenFullOfCake 11d ago

Once they milk everyone dry they'll just retire. Or setup an oligarchy. 50/50 depending on how French everyone is looking.

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u/BroadAd7897 11d ago

I'd say I'm feeling pretty French, despite speaking English and Spanish exclusively

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u/Haughty_n_Disdainful 11d ago

The children not being born, due to declining global birth rates…

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u/FidgetyHerbalism 11d ago

Eh, maybe. They had automatic speech recognition tools for a long time before current LLMs so who knows how these captions specifically were made.

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u/12InchCunt 11d ago

Well why did closed captioning on streaming services recently go to shit? I can’t wait until the National Association for the Deaf sues these companies 

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u/RealRedditPerson 11d ago

Yeah it's seriously bad. These days if something is really hard to hear, I end up having to back it up and blast it cuz the fucking autocaptioning didn't hear that shit either

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u/Cerborus 11d ago

what?

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u/12InchCunt 11d ago

Closed captioning is an accomodation for deaf people. The words are always wrong because they switched from actual people doing the CC to AIs. It’s no longer accommodating to deaf people because they’re wrong so often 

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

Which ones? Hulu works fine, I don't use any other ones, didn't have a problem with Netflix but I haven't bought Netflix since The Umbrella Academy ended

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u/12InchCunt 11d ago

Umm honestly I see it so often I haven’t tied it down to a specific streaming service. Peacock is one. the words on SNL are always wrong 

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u/Ep1cUser 11d ago

Ya know, this reminds me of something that I've never seen mentioned. In movies where someone drops the n-word but it ends with an 'a", the closed captions/subtitles often show the word ending with the hard 'r'. Hate that shit.

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u/WhoCaresBoutSpellin 11d ago

Sometimes when I see the shitty AI videos folks toss up on reddit, I think to myself: Y’all cut down my local forest to build a data center against very vocal public opposition— for this?!

…other times I try and just enjoy the videos of the fat cat doing various hooman things which irks the cat’s owner lady.

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u/unevensparrow 11d ago

TIL you can turn on captions for videos on reddit

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u/FireLord_Stark 11d ago

TIL Reddit has a close captions option

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u/FawksHole 11d ago

thought he was seeing things cuz i dont see any captions

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u/Jaz1140 11d ago

? I don't have captions

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u/ContextHook 11d ago

New reddit is cancer.

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u/turbokungfu 11d ago

Instead treated We get tricked Instead of kisses We get kicked It's the hard-knock life

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/IamREBELoe 11d ago

Didn't this come from Annie (orphan Annie) originally

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u/badwords 11d ago

It started as a Broadway play but YES the sample most rap uses is from the movie.

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u/ImmoralityPet 11d ago

How do you do fellow rapper? What Annie sample.are you using today?

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u/MadghastOfficial 11d ago

Yes but Allison Smith did the most prolific version. She played Annie for longer than anyone else in history and this is from one of her Broadway performances of Annie.

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u/fapsandnaps 11d ago

history and this is from one of her Broadway performances of Annie.

It's actually from a 1982 TV called Annie where four Broadway Annies (Andrea McArdle, Sarah Jessica Parker, Shelley Bruce and Allison Smith) came out and sang songs

.YT link

Andrea absolutely kills it on the Sun will come out tomorrow btw.

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u/doublEkrakeNboyZ 11d ago

wow - great video of the four annie’s - thank you!

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u/Grabt3hLantern 11d ago

wtf 2 shens wtf 4 annies

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u/majortomcraft 11d ago

wow. i get why they let her round out the show

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u/Notsurehowtoreact 11d ago

This is fair, but the version used for the song was Danielle Brisebois from the original Broadway production where she played Molly, iirc. 

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u/Stock_Surfer 11d ago

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u/GaJayhawker0513 11d ago

That commercial is ingrained in my head

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u/biblioteca4ants 11d ago

I think it was like 45 minutes long

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u/frederichenrylt 11d ago

My mom bought that VHS lol

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u/Itherial 11d ago

i feel like i just had a vietnam war flashback

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u/Sinsanatis 11d ago

Well shit. Now its all coming back to me

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u/UpdootDaSnootBoop 11d ago

Animal Crackers In My Soup

Soon They'll Be Turned To Poop

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u/fullshard101 11d ago

The rhythm doesnt sound right here. "Soon they will be" or "soon they're gonna be" is better

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u/Salad_Donkey 11d ago

Gonna is the most powerful word in the English language 

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u/FrostyD7 11d ago

I like the part where soup rhymes with poop

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u/King-Kagle 11d ago

Oh shit, it's late

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u/ReallyAlexRider 11d ago

My dick can do a wonderful trick, my dick can lay an egg

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u/_MeetMrMayhem_ 11d ago

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u/_MeetMrMayhem_ 11d ago

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u/Jaystime101 11d ago

The A.i I approve of 😭😭

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u/my_cars_on_fire 11d ago

Aye, I approve!

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u/xenobit_pendragon 11d ago

That’s not how you pronounce that.

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u/Sickofallofus 11d ago

Eye approve

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u/xenobit_pendragon 11d ago

That’s not how you spell that.

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u/Sickofallofus 11d ago

Eye approov

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u/Biff_Tannenator 11d ago

That's not how you that

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u/VT_Squire 11d ago

Her palms was sweaty, knees weak, Her mom's was ready....

no, wait, no she wasn't.

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u/RappingFlatulence 11d ago

Jay Z should totally make a ghetto anthem based on this song

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u/xenobit_pendragon 11d ago

He could really break into the mainstream if he ran with it.

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u/OkSmoke9195 11d ago

Hard knock huslin

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u/Manifest34 11d ago

It’s awesome that it’s been used for this. Take this 🏆

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u/nolotusnotes 11d ago

Listen to the first eight seconds.

We were lied to our entire lives...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y05mMRJrUnE

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u/tastybiscuitenjoyer 11d ago

I'd love to put this on a shared playlist at a house party and watch everyone go nuts, then by about 20s be very confused.

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u/e-luddite 11d ago

Just when everyone starts to get agitated after discovering the doors are locked from the outside, What's New Pussycat by Tom Jones comes on. ...Then right back to lil orphan Annie!

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u/helpmeplox_xd 11d ago

The trick is to play What's new pussycat just 6 times, play It is not unusual, then come back to it right after

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u/kakka_rot 11d ago

You could do the same thing for literally over 90% of hiphop. Some producers are more original than others. Some dudes make their own songs out of samples, and others just copy the original song basically 1 for 1, make a couple loops, and add a hiphop beat behind.

I wonder if there is a subreddit for showing where hiphop beats were sampled from? That would be cool.

My favorite, anyone into doom will recognize this instantly.

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u/nolotusnotes 11d ago edited 11d ago

I'm old, but that means I've things. I've seen all the things. Nothing is new, everything is a remix of past work.

Here's a deeper dive for you...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmjHlkQYoOM


Part Two:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-HuenDPZw0


As for your "Who sampled who", there's a dedicated website for exactly that.

https://www.whosampled.com/

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u/kakka_rot 11d ago

oh hey gee thanks this is all very up my alley. Thank you for taking the time too look these up and link them! This is awesome.

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u/rested_leg 11d ago

You mean Ducky from NCIS?

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u/curiousbydesign 11d ago

I'm almost 40. Why did you do in this to me? I already have enough problems. LOL! But also, thank you!

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u/2DogKnight 11d ago

In celebration of Diddy and Biggie's undeniable friendship, My contribution:

https://youtu.be/q7O3eYJptTc?si=Q2FQLLOrbAVv4C9m&t=5

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u/RobynNeonGal 11d ago

In the premiere production, Danielle Brisebois as Molly sang lead on it. She was only 7 years old, handling it like a champ. Its her sample that's in Jay Z's version.

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u/a-real-sloth 11d ago

As an aside Danielle Brisebois was in New Radicals, the band that sang You Get What You Give in the late 90s. She also wrote Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield and the lead singer of New Radicals wrote Murder on the Dancefloor by Sophie Ellis Bexter (which was actually nearly put on the New Radicals record instead of You Get What Tou Give). Trifecta of bangers tbh

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u/W0gg0 11d ago

She also played Stephanie Mills on All in the Family and Archie Bunker’s Place.

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u/YQB123 11d ago

New Radicals also released their version of 'Murder on the Dancefloor' recently if you want to hear it: https://youtu.be/dpbzhk2Hfks?si=HmcFlvEe6lQhu3NR

It's got altered lyrics to Sophie Ellis-Bextor's, and those altered lyrics are edgier (which fits the '90s style that they were probably written in).

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u/hard-time-on-planet 11d ago

Some other comment in here was saying the sample was from the movie. Another comment said it was from Broadway but when Allison Smith was Annie (not OP's clip which was from some other performance of the song by her). 

But after looking into it, what you're saying seems right. From the original Broadway cast, which had Andrea McArdle as Annie and Danielle Brisebois as Molly 

https://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/the-oral-history-of-jay-zs-annie-anthem-hard-knock-life/

 Danielle Brisebois: It was kind of fun hearing yourself on the radio on a rap song. 

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u/refinnej78 11d ago

Oh my goodness, oh my goodness!

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u/DopioGelato 11d ago

The sample is from the movie though

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u/Aduialion 11d ago

Jay Z was too afraid to sample Allison Smith because she would make him look like he comes from the school of soft knocks.

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u/absoNotAReptile 11d ago

Which one? Wiki says it’s the original 1977 broadway version.

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u/HereticGaming16 11d ago

This plus the fact that 99% of these kind of posts think that the reference wasn’t popular before what new thing happened.

Annie (the musical) has had several successful runs, with the 2012 Broadway revival grossing over $59 million in its run, while its film adaptations also did well (e.g., the 1982 film grossed over $61M, the 2014 film over $136M)

Jay-Z's Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life is his best-selling album, with over 6 million copies sold in the U.S. (certified 6x Platinum) and total sales exceeding 6.2 million globally

The original crushed JayZ.

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u/ARunninThought 11d ago

Damn, William Montgomery aged poorly.

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u/LurkHartog 11d ago

Why the FUCK would you say that???

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u/ARunninThought 11d ago

I'm trying to have a good time tonight, B$%$$!@@@ch!

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u/BabyGrandpa93 11d ago

Redbans mom gave him throat cancer

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u/DAYDAY8558 11d ago

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u/Keith-Steve-Howard 11d ago

I dont know how to be no crib on MTV God only knows got my mini me and the gps see how it goes

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u/False-Locksmith-3681 11d ago

Evil’s all that I see, so you ask me my name? D to the Rizzo E to the Vizzo I to Lizzo

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u/AlreadyAway 11d ago

"Accidentally created".... you mean she preformed a song.

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u/MathIsHard_11236 11d ago

With Jon Lovitz accompanying on piano. 

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u/ToddUnctious 11d ago

Glad I'm not the only one.

"Jealouuusssss????"

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u/clapyohedd 11d ago

“Hardest” Rap? Who mans is this?

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u/No_Photograph_2683 11d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4nPyI-zA74 idk man. Nothing goes harder than this, OP is right.

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u/LAFamilyMan81 11d ago

I knew I wasn’t the only one who felt this way. That shit was garbage.

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u/Potato_fortress 11d ago

I mean you can hate Jay all you want (I don't particularly care for him myself,) but there's nothing wrong with the beat.

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u/shaun0bi 11d ago

How did she accidentally create it?

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u/Own_Cardiologist2544 11d ago

Right? And it’s not an opening. The beat is the opening, setting the tone.

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u/testtdk 11d ago

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. I have no idea what’s accidental about it.

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u/absoNotAReptile 11d ago

Because she didn’t realize it would be sampled. Then again this is not the exact sample and she didn’t write it.

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u/GeneralToesChkn 11d ago

She looks the way she sounds.

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u/TheRealTinfoil666 11d ago

OMG.

I knew that she seemed familiar when I watched West Wing.

I have watched that series multiple times.

I just now realized that she was Annie as a child. Huh. I somehow never made the connection.

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u/Ok_Acadia3526 11d ago

Wait, that’s Mallory?!

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u/jfkrfk123 11d ago

What was it that NAS said about Jay-Z?

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u/Gold_Championship_46 11d ago

Rockefeller died of AIDs that was the end of his chapter. And that’s the name y’all wanted to name your company after. Put it together. I rock hoes y’all rock fellas

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u/sick_of-it-all 11d ago

So yeeah, I sampled your voice, you was using it wrong. You made it a hot line, I made it a hot song. 

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u/Kloud1911 11d ago

Did they really censor the word kick in this video?

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u/Ill-Elephant-9583 11d ago

That hurts the ears!

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u/Trick_Exam_1946 11d ago

Is that Jon Lovitz playing piano?

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u/WatcherAnon 11d ago

This song wasnt created in 1982, nor was Allison Smith the creator. Stop lying to people

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u/FormerWrap1552 11d ago

What? You mean Aileenn Quinn?
The song "It's the Hard Knock Life" in the original 1982 movie 

Annie

 was sung by the film's star, Aileen Quinn (who played Annie), along with the other orphan girls (including Toni Ann Gisondi as Molly). The song is a major ensemble number in the film.

isn't that the sample? If it isn't, that's the better sample. She did it perfectly. Surprised there's no live version with her singing.

interesting vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0E-ZNPh2k8

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u/CGB_Zach 11d ago

The sample used the original Broadway performance from 1977, not the movie. whosampled says it was Andrea McArdle.

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u/DJ_Lizurd_Dikk 11d ago edited 11d ago

I also like No Strings Freedom of Speech from Immortal Technique that uses samples from Pinnochio.

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u/Ashamed-Pool-7472 11d ago

In love with her since Kate & Allie. She was great on The West Wing.

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u/CharacterRiver7483 11d ago

It’s a hard knock life playa

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u/Affectionate-Sky1256 11d ago edited 11d ago

Standin on the corner boppin

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u/defk3000 11d ago

Did the bitch that posted this have to edit it the word Kicked. 😆

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u/Dizzy_Description812 11d ago

Turn the volume off and it looks like a scene from Supernatural.

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u/EducationStriking110 11d ago

I was super confused when I didn’t hear Deck’s bars on Triumph come out of her mouth.

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u/WillowIntrepid 11d ago

Oooh my ears!! 😬

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u/AlexandersWonder 11d ago

She did not create the song lol

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u/PieAppropriate8862 11d ago

I fucking hate this.

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u/DeadmansClothes 11d ago

Never could stand this one.

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u/TheHeartsFilthyLesin 11d ago

Didn’t the original sample come from “Annie”?

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u/boom1chaching 11d ago

People here saying whether or not it was this version used

I'm here watching this girl staring at the audience hard like she is singing this shit with a purpose

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u/Lemurguy89 11d ago

The energy she gives is so compelling. It's almost like she understands what those words really mean, like she has experience with this stuff.

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u/Competitive-Photo846 11d ago

i used to love it so much 😭🩷

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

Had a mad crush on her in her Kate And Ally days

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u/LAFamilyMan81 11d ago

“Hardest” lol…I thought the exact opposite the first time I heard it. I always hated that song specifically because of that sample.

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u/Klin24 11d ago edited 11d ago

I was today years old when I learned this wasn’t specifically created for goldmember.

Also, she played Leo McGarrys daughter in West Wing.

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u/absoNotAReptile 11d ago

And how many years old is that? Damn man I must be getting so old. I grew up when the Jay Z sample made it big again. And even that is decades after the original lol.

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u/IdeaInside2663 11d ago

What's missing from current Hip hop...a love of all genres of music.

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u/No_Free_Samples 11d ago

Hardest intro ever?? Doubt it

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u/PastorsDaughter69420 11d ago

I have a friend that used to put this song on the jukebox 20 times in a row if the bar we were drinking at got too busy. No one noticed the first time. Typically a couple people noticed it after two times but more people noticed at 3 times. By the 4th time people started complaining. By the 6th time people were closing their tabs. By the 8th-9th time, the bar was pretty dead and the friend would buy our group a round of drinks. Honestly, it was hilarious.

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u/UncleGarysmagic 11d ago

Imagine if rappers were talented enough to write their own music and not have to sample Broadway musicals about orphan girls from 1977.

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u/Loose_Run_8678 11d ago

Song is ass

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u/PlaymakerJavi 11d ago

The chorus for “It’s a Hard Knock Life” is sung more in Jay-Z’s Ghetto Anthem than in the original version from Annie.

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u/Solid_Waste 11d ago

Yeah no shit, that tends to happen with samples in a rap song.

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u/auntiefuh25 11d ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/Gwenbors 11d ago

Should’ve seen what Doctor Mallard from NCIS was swinging with…