Sample: Crosby, Stills & Nash “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” (1969)
Album: Rise Up
Producer: Jim Jonsin
Label: EMI/Priority
With his epic goatee and biker fashions, Jim Jonsin looks more like the lost member of ZZ Top than a Miami bass pioneer (he founded seminal Bass label Cut it Up Def) or the guy responsible for some of Lil Wayne and T.I.’s biggest hits, in “Lollipop” and “Whatever You Like.”
He’s sampled more frequently than anyone from the rock 'n'roll canon, often in unexpected fashion, building Trick Daddy’s “Let’s Go” from Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train,” and looping the B-52’s “Rock Lobster” and the White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” into Pitbull songs (“Hey You Girl” and “Gimme A Bottle,” respectively).
His most curious maneuver, though, might be flipping Crosby, Stills & Nash's Woodstock-era hippy favorite “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” into a Latin BBQ anthem, in Cypress Hill’s surprisingly good 2010 comeback single “Armada Latina” featuring Marc Anthony and Pitbull.
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