You arrived at a front gate of a discotheque...

As the bouncer checked your ID, and gestured you to get in...

As you opened the front gate, synthezied tone reached your ears...


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%%MIDI program 81
|G4z2d10 z2 G4z2^d10 z14|
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|G4z2d10 z2 G4z2^d10 z14|
|G4z2^d10 z2 G4z2=d10 z14|

[1]

I have first heard this line from a performance of James Hill
and his chopsticks ukulele [2], and thought it was a sort of generic
hip hop-sounding chord. It wasn't until I heard it again in one
episode of "99% Invisible" Internet radio show in a different pitch, [3]
that I realized this might actually be a snippet of an actual commercially-released hip hop song, and I would like to hear
what the actual song actually was.

The problem is, I have no idea of what title it was supposed to be,
or even what to search for.

Any ideas?
~xwindows


[1] https://tilde.club/~xwindows/temp/2026-02-17/unidentified.ogg
^ For anyone who don't have a synth and ABC2MIDI tool at hand

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RylxBtEM0sI&t=314s
(Or outside of the Internet telescreen, at 00:05:14...
<https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=RylxBtEM0sI>)

[3] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/all-rings-considered/
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/all-rings-considered/download
^ At 00:02:55.
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xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> wrote:

I have first heard this line from a performance of James Hill
and his chopsticks ukulele [2], and thought it was a sort of generic
hip hop-sounding chord. It wasn't until I heard it again in one
episode of "99% Invisible" Internet radio show in a different pitch, [3]
that I realized this might actually be a snippet of an actual commercially-released hip hop song, and I would like to hear
what the actual song actually was.

The problem is, I have no idea of what title it was supposed to be,
or even what to search for.

Any ideas?
~xwindows

"Yeah" by Usher; Li'l Jon is on the track, and I believe it's his
production too.

-threatcat

PS <wave emoji> hey, I'll take this weird non sequitur moment to say
that I'm still around, just mostly lurking in between life moments. And watering my botany plant.
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threatcat@tilde.club writes:

PS <wave emoji> hey,[...]

I like you way to emoji :-) .

=2D-=20
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keyboardan <keyboardan@tilde.club> wrote:

threatcat@tilde.club writes:

PS <wave emoji> hey,[...]

I like you way to emoji :-) .

<heart hands emoji>
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On Tue, 3 Mar 2026, threatcat wrote:

"Yeah" by Usher

Yeah! (Oops) Thank you; that seems to be it. [1] So that's the reason
why audience suddently shouted "YEAH!" when James Hill started hammering
that line out of his chopstick-ukulele contraption: I originally thought
it was merely an acknowledgement that it indeed sounded like hip-hop;
never thought it was actually a big part of the song's lyrics.

However, it turned out not to be a kind of song I personally like [2],
so this song would not enter my listen list; but at least,
the mystery is solved now.

PS <wave emoji> hey, I'll take this weird non sequitur moment to say
that I'm still around, just mostly lurking in between life moments.
And watering my botany plant.

Acknowledged. And despite that we're in tilde.art.music rather than tilde.food+drink, I would also like to randomly mention here that
tofu-katsu [3] totally slaps! Whether with rice +chili sauce or soy sauce,
or as a burger filling +salad cream.

'\o
o/`

Take care!
~xwindows


[1] Usher - Yeah! (Official Video) ft. Lil Jon, Ludacris
https://invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=GxBSyx85Kp8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxBSyx85Kp8

[2] Though I have to admit that the laser-show backdrop
on a mirror floor in their MV was really impressive.

[3] A term personally like to use for calling breaded-fried hard tofu.

This is a bit different from tempura tofu that I had previously
mentioned to you in IRC, [4] in that we don't chop the tofu
into small block, but rather slice it into 0.5-1 cm thick piece
(that is around 10x10cm wide) this time, then after dipping this
chunky piece of tofu in a tempura batter formula of choice,
an additional step before frying is picking it back up
and put that in on a plate full of panko bread crumbs,
press and flip it to make sure that all part of it is covered in panko;
then fry it.

After frying and draining of excess oil, that can get either served
as-is (for burger, or for eating with rice), or sliced further
into small chunks (mainly for eating with rice).

[4] Conversation in Tilde.chat IRC network's #asia channel on
2025-11-16T10:03Z.
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attempting to reply to this and cross-post at the same time, and also
have replies sent to tilde.food+drink. <fingers-crossed emoji>

xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> wrote:

On Tue, 3 Mar 2026, threatcat wrote:

[snip]

PS <wave emoji> hey, I'll take this weird non sequitur moment to say
that I'm still around, just mostly lurking in between life moments.
And watering my botany plant.

Acknowledged. And despite that we're in tilde.art.music rather than tilde.food+drink, I would also like to randomly mention here that
tofu-katsu [3] totally slaps! Whether with rice +chili sauce or soy sauce,
or as a burger filling +salad cream.

[snip]

[3] A term personally like to use for calling breaded-fried hard tofu.

This is a bit different from tempura tofu that I had previously
mentioned to you in IRC, [4] in that we don't chop the tofu
into small block, but rather slice it into 0.5-1 cm thick piece
(that is around 10x10cm wide) this time, then after dipping this
chunky piece of tofu in a tempura batter formula of choice,
an additional step before frying is picking it back up
and put that in on a plate full of panko bread crumbs,
press and flip it to make sure that all part of it is covered in panko;
then fry it.

After frying and draining of excess oil, that can get either served
as-is (for burger, or for eating with rice), or sliced further
into small chunks (mainly for eating with rice).

[4] Conversation in Tilde.chat IRC network's #asia channel on
2025-11-16T10:03Z.

Yum! I've been meaning to pick up or make tempura batter and try this. I
did think of that IRC conversation recently though -- I had authentic
General Tso's chicken again, finally. Tbh, even though it hit the
comfort food spot as perfectly as expected, I now know I prefer the
cauliflower version using the vodka-cornstarch breading. One day, I will
write it up for this newsgroup, and build out my brand-new but sparse
AnyMeal database

[nonlinear edit]

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Take care!
~xwindows

You too! And apologies for the incredibly lagged reply
~threatcat
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