2020 Tokyo Olympics Edition (Skateboarding is in the Olympics!)

This has always seemed like an “obvious” sample, so I hadn’t put it on Sample Tuesday. But, when you think about it, the Aerosmith song was long-gone when the Eminem one came out. (Mind you that Steven Tyler hasn’t sounded like this in a long time so even to kids that liked Aerosmith at the time—”Jaded” was their single at the time—it wasn’t obvious that this was the same band.)

These were the times of Limp Bizkit and Christina Aguilera, before streaming and easily accessible downloads. Now we can play the Classic Rock station or whatever and it’s “obvious” that Eminem “just lifted” the sample from the Aerosmith song but in 2003 this really was fresh and strange. True to Rap tradition, this was digging an interesting sound out of the record crate and introducing a new generation to it.

• Aerosmith – Dream On
• Eminem – Sing For The Moment
• Skater: Rodney Mullen
• Video: Second Hand Smoke (Plan B)