Producers on sampling #7

“Seven hundred bucks, but he asked for two thousand dollars. I thought it was kind of fly that he asked for $2000.00, and I bartered Bob Dylan down. That’s my proudest sampling deal.”

— Mike D (Beastie Boys)

Quote in reference to the cost of sampling Bob Dylan’s Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues for the Beastie Boys song Finger Lickin’ Good

posted : Tuesday, May 12th, 2009