Question
In 2011, users on the-breaks.com discovered that to create this song’s primary riff, Havoc stretched out a piano sequence from Herbie Hancock’s 1969 song “Jessica.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this 1995 Mobb Deep song whose samples were a white whale of the beatmaking community for 16 years.
ANSWER: “Shook Ones, Part II” [accept “Shook Ones”] (“Shook Ones, Part II” was a sequel to a separate song called “Shook Ones,” but the media often drops “Part II” when referring to the former song.)
[10e] The siren-like sound on the beat of “Shook Ones” was sampled from a track by this composer of “Soul Bossa Nova.” Highlights of this musician’s 60 years as a pop music producer include Michael Jackson’s Bad and Thriller.
ANSWER: Quincy Jones [or Quincy Delight Jones Jr.]
[10h] An earlier white whale found by Internet users was this producer’s beat on “Nas is Like.” This producer of Nas’s other songs “Represent” and “N.Y. State of Mind” satirized radio on his beat for the song “Mass Appeal.”
ANSWER: DJ Premier [or Christopher Edward Martin; or Preemo; or Primo] (DJ Premier formed Gang Starr with Guru.)
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 13 | 14.62 | 69% | 62% | 15% |
Data
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | BHSU B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | We Need New Names | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | The Empire Bikes Back | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| var merchants | The Jeam Team | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |