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  • What is this hip-hop tune?

    From xwindows@xwindows@tilde.club to tilde.art.music on Tue Feb 17 18:58:17 2026
    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...


    X:1
    M:6/4
    L:1/32
    Q:1/4=160
    K:Eb
    %%MIDI program 81
    |G4z2d10 z2 G4z2^d10 z14|
    |G4z2^d10 z2 G4z2=d10 z14|
    |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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  • From threatcat@threatcat@tilde.club to tilde.art.music on Tue Mar 3 13:48:55 2026
    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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  • From keyboardan@keyboardan@tilde.club to tilde.art.music on Tue Mar 3 14:06:01 2026
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    threatcat@tilde.club writes:

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

    I like you way to emoji :-) .

    =2D-=20
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  • From threatcat@threatcat@tilde.club to tilde.art.music on Tue Mar 3 23:59:49 2026
    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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