A super-simple one now... The acapella of Beats International's Dub Be Good To Me over the instrumental of 50 Cent's In Da Club. I'm not sure what's up with the version in the video here - maybe US? The one that was a hit in the UK was more reggae...
Though I liked Dub Be Good To Me about as much as the next man at the time, I wasn't really into dub/reggae much yet and just thought of it as pop really. All the same, I remember travelling to some crap "rave" to see them, cos that's the kind of thing I did at the time. Anyway, probably about 12 years after the event, looking through some records in my parents' attic, I found my sister's copy of the 12" and remembered liking it enough to steal it. And it had an acapella on it!
I used to play the 50 Cent track when it came out - there's kind of a darkness to the music I like, it almost has elements of old horror soundtrack music in the synth and strings. Or maybe that's just me.
I'm not sure where the idea to put these together came from, but I think it works a bit like the best "You Got The Love" bootlegs (more on that later!) - The originally-poppy vocal gets a bit of an edge from the music...
Dub Be Good To Me by Beats International
In Da Club by 50 Cent
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