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‘Take Me To The Mardi Gras’ is a gem from Bob James’ second album ‘Two’. The album is widely regarded as a jazz-funk classic (along with One, Three and BJ4). Released in 1975, the album charted at number two on the US Jazz Album Charts. The track, written by Paul Simon, emerged as an essential hip-hop breakbeat and has become of the most widely used samples of all-time, appearing in:

Run-DMC's Peter Piper,
Chemical Brothers's Dig Your Own Hole
Beastie Boys's Hold it Now, Hit It
Biz Markie's Cool V's Tribute to Scratching
Ghostface Killah ft Method Man, Raekwon & Superb's Flowers
Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince's Hip Hop Dancer's Theme
PM Dawn's Set Adrift on Memory Bliss
Public Enemy's 1 Million Bottlebags
Salt 'N' Pepa's Expression
Eric B and Rakim's Don't Sweat the Technique
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five's Freelance
LL Cool J's Rock the Bells
Heavy D's Nuttin' But Love
Ice Cube's I Wanna Kill Sam
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo's Deathwish
Kwame's Itz Oh Kay
2 Live Crew's Megamixx II
Mantronix's Get Stupid
Naughty by Nature's Let the Ho's Go
Nightmares on Wax's Coming Down
Pete Rock & CL Smooth's Lots of Lovin'
Slick Rick's The Moment I Feared Succuss
Terminator X's Ain't Got Nuttin'
World Class Wreckin' Cru's Cabbage Patch
Gravediggaz's Pass the Shovel

This track was featured in the 2018 Matthew Mcconaughey film “White Boy Rick”.

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