Woo! Yeah!

Woo! Yeah! é um drum break que inclui os vocais de James Brown ("Woo!") e Bobby Byrd ("Yeah!") que tem sido usado na música popular, sempre em forma de loop. O break da bateria foi performado por John "Jabo" Starks. Se originou da canção de 1972 de Lyn Collins, "Think (About It)", escrita e produzida por Brown.

Background e impacto

A passagem vocal "Woo! Yeah!" foi provavelmente usada primeiramente como loop pelo grupo britânico Cookie Crew (em "Females (Get On Up)") mas recebeu grande atenção como base para a canção de Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock de 1988, "It Takes Two."

O número de artistas que tem usado o sample "Woo! Yeah!" chega a milhares – tornou-se quase onipresente na dance music e no hip hop durante o final dos anos 1980 e início dos anos 1990. Também faz parte de diversas trilhas sonoras de jogos eletrônicos, tais como Action 52 do NES, o nível "Jungle Chase" de Super Adventure Island para SNES, bem como para Street Fighter III: New Generation. O sample também foi usado durante algumas corridas de Sonic Adventure 2: Battle.

Canções que usaram partes da canção

1980s

• Cookie Crew – "Females (Get On Up)" (1987)
• Roxanne Shanté – "Go on Girl"/My Groove Gets Better/Bad Sister (1988)
• Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock – "It Takes Two"/Get On The Dancefloor (1988)
• Simon Harris – "Bass! How Low Can You Go?" (1988)
• Fast Eddie – "Yo Yo Get Funky" (1988)
• Tyree Cooper – "Turn Up the Bass" (1988)
• Age Pee feat. Shipra - "No Hip Hop" (1989)
• Bravo & DJ's – "Difacil Rap" (1989)
• Beatmasters feat. MC Merlin - "Who's in the House" (1989)
• Slick Rick – "Children's Story" (1989)
• FPI Project - "Rich in Paradise" (1989)
• Hi Tek 3 feat. Ya Kid K – "Spin That Wheel" (1989)
• Mister Mixi & Skinny Scotty - "I Can Handle It" (1989)
• Out Of The Ordinary - "Play It Again" (The Los Niños Mix) (1989)
• Raul Orellana - "The Real Wild House" (1989)
• Don Pablo's Animals - "Venus" (1989)
• Eurythmics - "The King and Queen of America" (Dance Mix)/(Dub Mix) (1989)

1990s

• Bombalurina – "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" (1990)
• Shocking Blue - "Venus" (BHF Remix) (1990)
• FPI Project – "Going Back to My Roots" (1990)
• KA Posse – "Shake" (Joe Smooth Mix) (1990)
• La Toya Jackson – "Sexual Feeling" (1990)
• Masterboy - "Dance To The Beat" (1990)
• The Sacados – "Bikini a Lunares Amarillo" (1990)
• The Sacados – "Ritmo de la Noche" (1990)
• Sonia - "Counting Every Minute" (1990)
• Twenty 4 Seven – "I Can't Stand It" (1990)
• Boyz II Men - "Motownphilly" (1991)
• Bingoboys - "How to Dance" (1991)
• Biz Markie - "Road Block" (1991)
• Alanis Morissette - "Walk Away" (1991)
• Slick Rick - "Mistakes of a Woman in Love with Other Men" (1991)
• Simon Harris (as Ambassadors of Funk feat. M.C. Mario) – "SuperMarioLand" (1992)
• Doctor Spin – "Tetris" (1992)
• Mystic - "La Ola" (1992)
• Madonna – "Bye Bye Baby" (1993)
• Carmen Electra - Good Judy Girlfriend(1993)
• Black and White – "Do You Know" (1994)
• Vinnie Colaiuta – "I'm Tweeked/Attack of the 20 lb Pizza" (1994)
• Masoko Solo – "Pessa Pessa" (1994)
• Fight – "Vicious (Middle Finger Mix)" (1994)
• Alexia feat. Double You - "Me And You" (1995)
• New System – "Let Me Take" (1996)
• Big Audio Dynamite – "Sound of the BAD" (1997)
• Janet Jackson - "Free Xone" (1997)
• John Mellencamp – "I'm Not Running Anymore" (1998)
• Chaos A.D. – "Psultan Part 1" (Squarepusher Remix) (1998)
• Will Smith – "Gettin' Jiggy wit It" (1998)
• Squarepusher – "Schizm #2 Mix" (1999)

2000s

• Alizée – "L'Alizé" (2000)
• King África - "Salta" (2000)
• DJ Kool feat. Fatman Scoop - "It Takes Two" (2001)
• Lil' Romeo feat. Master P & Silkk the Shocker - "2-Way" (versão cover de Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, "It Takes Two") (2002)
• Overseer - "Velocity Shift" (2002)
• Sean Paul - "Get Busy" (2003)
• Fatman Scoop feat. The Crooklyn Clan - "It Takes Scoop" (2003)
• Kid606 – "The Illness" (2003)
• The Flashbulb - "Black Lawn Finale" (2004)
• Dizzee Rascal – "Pussyole (Old Skool)" (2007)
• Scooter - "The Question Is What Is the Question?" (2007)
• Katy Perry – "Use Your Love" (2007)
• Yelle – "Jogging" (2007)
• Wisin & Yandel – "Síguelo" (2008)
• A Skillz feat. Beardyman – "Got the Rhythm" (2008)
• Crookers – "Sveglia" (2008)
• Crookers – "All the Girls Standing in the Line for the Bathroom" (2008)
• Boy 8-Bit – "Fog Bank" (2008)
• Venetian Snares – "Gentleman" (2008)
• Feadz – "Cold as Feadz" (2008)
• The Black Eyed Peas - "Rock That Body" (2009)
• Don Omar – "Sexy Robótica" (2009)
• Crazy Frog - "Daddy DJ" (2009)
• Mike Candys feat. Jack Holiday – "Insomnia (canção de Faithless)Insomnia" (2009)
• Mike Candys feat. Jack Holiday – "La Serenissima" (2009)
• Stromae - "Elecstricien" (2009)

2010s

• Crookers - "Put Your Hands Up On Me" (from Tons Of Friends Italian version) (2010)
• Black Eyed Peas - "Pump It Harder" (from The E.N.D Deluxe edition) (2010)
• Ceephax Acid Crew – "Life Funk" (2010)
• Lone – "Pineapple Crush" (2010)
• Toxic Avenger feat. Orelsan – "N'importe comment" (2010)
• Red Café feat. Fabolous - "I'm Ill" (2010)
• The Freestylers & Pendulum - Painkiller (Kouncilhouse Remix) (2010)
• Zomboy – "Pump it Up" (2011)
• Bibio – "Willenhall" (2011)
• New Boyz feat. Chris Brown – "Better with the Lights Off (Funkymix)" (2011)
• 2NE1 – "I Am the Best" (2011)
• Does It Offend You, Yeah? – "John Hurt" (2011)
• Noisia - "Alpha Centauri" (Receptor Remix) (2012)
• Kodiak - "Egyptian Kings" (2013)
• Renaissance Man - "UFO (Who R U)" (2013)
• Bustre - "Jupiter Beatz" (2013)
• xKore & F3tch - "Ladies" (2013)
• Breach feat. Andreya Triana - "Everything You Never Had (We Had It All)" (2013)
• ak9 - "The Kraken" (2013)
• TC - "Get Down Low" (ShockOne Remix) (2013)
• Kove - "Lose You" (2013)
• Miley Cyrus - "We Can't Stop" (2013)
• Ben Khan - "Youth" (from "1992 - EP") (2014)
• Sidney Samson - "Trojan" (2014)
• Maverick Sabre - "Emotion (Ain't Nobody)" (Three Bar Remix) (2014)
• Pharrell Williams - "Come Get It Bae" (2014)
• Endor & Midnight City feat. Romany - "Be With Me" (2014)
• Pixel & Malaky - "In Your Arms Again" (2014)
• Moonbootica - "Work Your Body" (2015)
• PhatFormat - "Get out of this town" (2015)
• CharlieBLUE - "Let Me Clear My Throat! Mix" (2015)
• X2X - "Lamb" (2015)
• Keita Sano - "Onion Slice" (2015)
• Marshall Applewhite - "Crunching" (2015)
• Spray - "The 80s Never Died" (2016)
• Run the Jewels - "Call Ticketron" (2016)

Ligações externas

• Crítica no Allmusic
• Lista de canções que samplearam "Think (About It)" no Whosampled.com
• Lista de canções que samplearam "Think (About It)" no The-Breaks.com