With all your sugggestions a part 2 is imminent!!! Of course, first I wanna handle the inverse - games that take/sample/steal songs! So look out for that one!

Sarcastic comment about KZfaq video

I will forever hear Baby Keem faintly rapping in the back of Super Metroid's OST. I love both versions, though. Anything made with MF DOOM is a good time

8:49 I almost yelled "AIN'T NO FKIN WAY" until i remembered im at work

Calling tlop subpar is insane 😭

I think it's cool how you can take a topic like this and make it accessible to your audience of video gamers who probably aren't dancing with a 40 at the function (that "what's a 40" joke KILLED ME!!) But it's even cooler how much you're learning and executing on different forms of media. Your pause menu sample beat is very pretty, and I'm guessing you're the one modelling and creating the things for your game. I'm excited to play it dude. You got that multimedia talent going on but you're dedicated and have the vision to really pursue it.

4:08 thanks for including this song! Fun fact: when making that song, I swear the engineer and I actually heard navi in the song saying “Hey!” BEFORE we ended up sampling it to put it in there. The engineer was like “That’s cool, you sampled Navi” I said “No I didn’t. Play the me the part you’re talking about.” He plays it, we both hear her yell “hey!” and I freak out. The we decided to go ahead and put her in there. It’s as if she called to us and demanded to be included lol

So everyone's going to start pretending that they hate Kanye's music now? Okay, sure, whatever.

8-bit drake haunts my dreams

One of my favorite cases is Janet Jackson's "China Love" sampling "Moonlit City Roa", from Legend of Mana. It's extremely blatant, especially considering it's literally the beginning of the song sped up and repeated throughout. But the best part? The Medallion, a 2003 Jackie Chan movie, used China Love in its soundtrack... but only a very small piece, specifically _the vocal-less beginning notes that sampled Moonlit City Roa!_ And that's how Yoko Shimomura technically composed a track for a Jackie Chan movie.

One of my favourite songs by the Beach Boys, "Deirdre" is sampled in both Earthbound and later on Undertale! The creepy intro of the song is used in the earthbound song "Cave of the Past" where you meet Giygas, and later on it was used in the Undertale song "Amalgam" down in Alphys secret lab!

I’m really glad that you mentioned Burial in this video, because I truly believe that he is the most talented music producer PERIOD. The amount of varied atmospheres he can create with samples is astonishing, and his gloomy, surreal, and haunting sound will always be captivating… I just wish he put out music more often haha, I think he’s working on his next project in his series of duo aliases with The Bug. They formed “Flame 1” and released two songs in one release, same with “Flame 2”. Can’t wait to see what they create with Flame 3

Ok… 6:49… need a full picture of that photoshop. Right now.

Video Game Soundbytes and Sound Effects in Music is such an epic crossover. I can hear amazing references in some songs. Game Samples are genius.

kinda funny how sonic cd japanese ost samples a lot of rap, hip hop, new jack swing and other music styles to make that unique ost... Ans now modern musicians are sampleing ost and sound effects from from videogames in a lesser extent. This is just beautiful

I used to sample from chrono trigger and secret of mana all the time. Those 16 bit bgm songs were absolute gems

TLOP was a good album wtf

Those Pac Man sounds in Through the Fire and Flames aren't sampled, they're done on a real guitar. Fucking incredible.

I respect the ending bit. FL Studio is not easy to learn so I appreciate the dedication.

Kanye is a lyrical genius period

3:42 yes rakakoie

My favorite would probably be Logic's Welcome to Forever, which samples Persona 4's Ending Theme. A warm and touching melody with lyrics that fit really well

please make more like this. love music, love video games. need more of it together

6:31 people _like_ this? People listen to this and enjoy it?

Adult easy bake oven makes me unreasonably happy as a certified air fryer hater

that final song needs to be put on streaming services, it's too good

love this, bro i always finding myself trying to find more videos about how producers have used video game samples over the years keep going do more!

If you can afford Nintendo online for $50 a year, you can afford an air fryer.

I will forever remember the day my geography teacher decided to show some samples of brazilian funk in class and one of the first songs he showed us sampled the boss theme from Sonic 1 For those wondering, he was showing us a subcategory of brazilian funk known as conscientious funk, in which the artists rap about social issues they're faced with as part of a poor community. None of that gratuitously sexual BS commonly associated with brazilian funk

Funny that you mention the Navi "hey listen" being used so prevalently. Skrillex just sampled that voice line on his newest album like 2 weeks ago. It's the gift that keeps on giving

The life of Pablo was not a subpar album :(

seeing Wax and EOM took me back. He was one of the 1st Rappers I ever seen on KZfaq in his car. Pretty dope. Good shit man, this is a great series you got going on here

Really loved this. Super high value video and plus I’m a huge hip hop head so this got me going “WHAT, REALLY?” a few times.

This stuff is always interesting to me. Video game music being hidden in real music and vice versa is an interesting thing. Still to this day my favorite little bit of info is Michael Jackson's influence on Sonic 3 and Knuckles' soundtrack. And on the opposite side of this video. I like when video games reference real songs. Like in Hifi Rush, the newer game. The first Boss Fight goes to a song titled "Too Big to Fail, and it's identical to Nine Inch Nails' 1,000,000 which is the song they used in the game if you play with the OST off. The beginning of the song is identical to 1,000,000.

I took immediate psychic damage at 7:12.

Crazy how JPEGMAFIA wasn't mentioned here

I hope you make a part 2 because I find this topic extremely interesting. One example of this that I'm particularly fond of is Thundercat's use of the extra continue sound from the Sega Genesis Sonic games at the end of the song "Show You The Way."

It's so nice to see that you of all people appreciate Burial's style of sampling. It's genius and really creative and the only other artist I know that is as good and as creative with sampling is DJ Shadow, who created an ENTIRE ALBUM purely from samples

love the MF DOOM inclusion

Life of Pablo is one of Kanyes best, better than MBDTF imo

I had never even heard of this, but then about a year and a half ago my friend, who listens to a lot of rap, told me about how a song called “Love Scar” by Trippie Red sampled parts of the Crashed Frigate theme from Metroid Prime. I’m not going to pretend to know anything about rap, but at the time I thought it was really cool how such a soothing piece could be put into a genre that I know to be frantic and fast-paced

Death Grips' mixtape Exmilitary does a hell of a lot of sampling, most notably for this topic being a Combine Soldier from Half-Life 2 sampled for Thru the Walls

"Rise against - the violence" grabs from the ff6 opera scene. Have a nice day.

Almost half a million subs!! been here since you started and you deserve it!

Yeah man. Every time you’ve talked about music on your channel it’s been one of my favorite videos. The Mario strikers one is a personal fave

Alax: "Drill... What is that?" DRILL 😭😭😭 I love Alax 2:34

Logic - Perfect is a great example of intertwining the music and game sound effects :)

6:14 I've heard Herman Li (DragonForce guitarist) say on stream that this is exactly how he describes that sound he produces on the guitar. On the official DragonForce KZfaq channel there is a video of Herman Li reacting to a Trombone Champ version of Through the Fire and the Flames. Its in that video where he calls it the Pac-Man noise. It's likely he's made that statement before in other videos, interviews or what have you, but this is one of the most recent references that I know of.

this might be more of a coincidence than a group sampling from a game, but in 2006 Pokémon Diamond and Pearl are released. One year later, Green Day come out with the song "21 Guns" and some of the guitar riffs sound a bit similar to the Route 209 Day theme from that game.

9:07 smooth… that’s why I love you’re content. Unpredictable and funny as hell, not only that but informative as well (like, wow, haven’t heard ‘bout those songs, and thus the music gallery needs to be expanded). Super interesting content that it was well worth the wait, I can’t wait to see it more.

NFS games had a lot of FNF references before FNF even existed.

Drake the type of guy to sample from a Donkey Kong game

Bone Thugs N Harmony also sampled from the Eternal Champions game. I remember just listening to calming snes music and my dad out of nowhere told me that was the song “Eternal”. It’s honestly really nice to hear and fits very well with the rap.

As hard as this type of content would be to get past the copyright system, this is one of the coolest types of videos I've watched in a while. Keep up the good work Alax!

4:55 *Shows a Genesis Model 1 *Procceds to let the headphone port go unmentioned

Drake is in his personal haunted halls getting haunted by Kendrick Lamar

1:54 is a producers signature, just like the Street fighter “Perfect” You can literally google this in two seconds. I’m so lost on how you have these crazy editing abilities and appreciate this nuanced stuff but dont even understand what’s going on here lmao

you’re the best for mentioning the Wax Luigi’s Mansion sample in ‘Coins’. That gave me goosebumps It’s like all my favourite things coming together at once.

Okay dissing life of Pablo is unforgivable

I'm surprised no one has mentioned BALD! by JPEGMAFIA, the main beat is sampled from ridge racer 4 and it goes hard asf

An honorable mention would be the no pressure intro by logic, not for sampling a soundbyte from a game, but for straight up hiring david hayter to reprise his role as solid snake and read out a few lines

Alax, I want you to know this is one of my favorite videos of yours that you've done. This specific phenomenon is something I've always seen, but no one around me is obsessed enough with both videogame music and hiphop to really notice these, let alone have a conversation about it. This video felt cathartic to me, so if possible, I'd love to see more like it!

R&B singer Avant sampled Symphony of the Night The song is called "Exclusive"

It might blow his mind that video games sample a lot of their stuff

bro said tlop is subpar

One of my recent favorites is BALD by JPEGMAFIA. Samples some Ridge Racer music and he glides on it man. Does a lot of these too,he’ll just straight up sample CSGO announcer callouts or the MK announcer saying Smoke,he’s one of my favorites

This video channels every feeling I had at a restaurant I worked at when someone started playing low-fi version of the zelda shop theme. Just sitting there, panicking for no reason over whether or not I should call it out......just to do so and be labelled the nerd because the girl who played it had no clue

one of my favourites of video game samples is in Love Scars by Trippie Redd, the sample is from a metroid ost and it’s reversed and slowed down to the point that you would probably never guess that it was a sample from the game

One of my favorite examples is really on the nose - うずまき by Machine Girl, which samples Palmtree Panic (Past) to make the song sound even more like one big mood swing. うずまき constantly switches from hyperpop to sounding like unused Earthbound music to sounding like something that could put you to sleep which makes it all the more fun to listen to. It's like what licking a battery would sound like.

0:21 i died

In Through the Fire in Flames, I hear Mario going down a warp pipe

Relentless from Slayer is definitely sampling Bowser’s castle from Super Mario Bros. 1

The main hook of Kernkraft 400 by Zombie Nation (an incredibly popular sports anthem) was lifted from one of the few original pieces of music from a Commodore 64 game from 1984 called Lazy Jones (the track is called Stardust in the game).

im not sure if anybody else has said this yet, but the transitions from the samples to the songs are so good. at 6:26 that was such a good transition

Kero Kero Bonito is another band that frequently samples video games. Their song Sick Beat recreates a sample from Super Mario 64, their song Graduation has the Mario Kart 64 lap sound effect in it, their song I'd Rather Sleep uses a bass MIDI soundfont from EarthBound, and their song Make Believe samples some Super Mario World sound effects near the end

My favorite video game sample is one Janet Jackson did for her song “China Love”. A Legend of Mana sample of all things, but damn, it sounds great.

1:00 the beat hard af regardless

Love this video! Thundercat is a pretty big Sonic fan. I couldn’t give you another example off the top of my head, but I know I’ve heard more references in his music outside of Them Changes. Terrific job researching and making the topic fun and engaging whether you’re coming from a music background or video game background. “40 what?” had me dying. Great job!

Calling life of pablo subpar is insane

Devlin - London City, Half way through Kingdom Hearts 2 as a kid, and hearing Sanctuary (or passion) almost fully ripped left me Extremely confused

"sub par album" aka as one of the best album of 2016

I’d be down if you did a part 2 of game samples in music. Make it a series of sorts.

I love sampling videogames. The sounds are so stimulating.

You heavily underestimated the amount of nerds in hip hop and the influences on the genre.

0:04 S O TRUE 😂😂😂😂😂😂

3:33 God damn this video feels so personal, I love rap/rnb and I pretty much knew all of these, it was really exciting to see someone else notice them. (I would have another one, tho it's not a sample and just uses a similar sound, the song "closed on sunday" has doot doos that always make me think of mario sunshines soundtrack.)

Are we just gonna forget when Logic and Jon Bellion sampled Never More from Persona 4? That was wild

I'm making an entire playlist out of this. Good ass video.

The mr. Bungle self titled album uses lots of video game samples and it came out in 1991. The song 'Egg' has samples from both super mario brothers and altered beast. Going into 'Egg', the end of 'Carousel ' has a sample from Scoreboard, a Nintendo baseball game. The song 'Girls of Porn' has the smash TV sample when the guy says "I'd buy that for a dollar". There's pinball machine sound effects on 'Stubb a Dub" as well.

8:29 it’s because he relates to them

The thumbnail aged very well

Anderson .Paak is my favorite artist and I’ve always heard that Yoshi sound in “Heart Don’t Stand a Chance”. I though I was going crazy. You don’t understand how happy I am someone else called attention to that because it is NOWHERE else on the internet.

"The Mind Electric" has a sample from Zelda 2 & Punch Out, and it hits hard every time I hear it

Oh MAN my favorite example of this is Jakey (of Nakey Jakey fame) sampling the Shadow of the Colossus soundtrack (specifically the track Epilogue at a minute 17 seconds in) in DRIVE OFF A BRIDGE. His music is absolutely peppered with video game samples, which makes a lot of sense given his background, but this one is my personal favorite.

Let’s be honest, the Sonic music has relatively been consistent, regardless of the game quality! And that’s BANGERS!!!

1:46 why you gotta do kanye like that 😭

Machine Girl - うずまき has a sample of palm tree panic from Sonic CD and the checkpoint sound, make a part two please

One of my favorite artists who does this is bo en. In his album pale machine he sampled sound effects from yoshi and pikmin for one of his songs, another in the album is a straight up lyrical remix of a song from a game called anodyne ("Friend"), and there's a bunch of other little fun samples that he takes from all sorts of places. The dude also composes music for video games, super cool artist imo

Always liked the Bloodhound Gang using Pac-Man’s music, then Pac-Man himself tells them to get high.

9:29 is that the persona 5 knife sound effect for the next day