Anyone else rewatching this in 2025?

Sad that alot of "black" artists have been the victims of theft of intellectual property fuck the big media snake

CAVEAT EMPTOR

Ah-men or eh-men?

Salt n Pepa (I Desire) sampled it 3 years before 3rd Bass / NWA did.

still listening to this in 2024.

stop the yapping

This video blows my musical mind!

I look back on this video about once a year as a reminder, a validation to the subculture I’ve been a part of since I was 14yo or so. This is not party music, not “rave” music. This culture is a more mature scene that rarely involves drug use. It’s an answer to the days of raves that I used to grow up and be in a culture that has to get up and go to work on Monday rather than recovering. This is what it was to me anyway. From Nate: Thank you for supporting my one video I made when I was a young man. I’m 60yo Stephen and healthy and in shape. Thank you for everything. Nate H

7.230 comments... somewhere in here must be my OG comment from something like 2008-2009? Amen!

Whoa... How old am I...

it took me 15.435 seconds to realize this is a video from 2006

An interesting thing about the Amen break is that if you brought it up by name most would not know what you are talking about but through the popular culture everyone has heard this break a lot. They just don’t realize it.

Young Matthew Jackson Robert Johnson Carol

Some might say "???????” 7：17 Please someone tell me what he said

please use a real voice to talk…

I've always liked this scene. Shopkeeper takes one look at Llewellyn wearing nothing but hospital clothes and all he cares about is his boots. "How those Larry's holding up?" 👍😎

Legendary video

and its still so very very relevant in so many genres

Still listening in 2024

bassed

Y’all must also give credit to Rodney Mills! Mills was the Sound Engineer at Studio One in Atlanta in 1969 for the Winstons for both their A Side (Color Him Father), and their now famous B Side (Amen Brother) AKA the now famous drum solo known as The Amen Break. Mills was the guy who actually started the Amen Break by recording it first.

Thank you for sharing this video

THIS blew my mind. Just, WOW.

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I have a friend that sampled this video and made a fat, funky breaks tune. He sampled the " I wanna talk about drums " part. Shout out Kyle cross

Every year or so I have to watch this vid. Takes me back to my roots 😁

Is this really lathe cut into vinyl just for this video?

the record came out the same month we landed on the moon.

0:23 Skrillex sampled this in his unreleased track "I Know Who You Are."

Genius. Even 18 years on

Is this the namesake of "breakcore"?

If you can’t dance to that Squarepusher track, just take another half & wait 20 mins.

In K-pop right now: Itzy’s - No Biggie, New Jeans - Super Shy (an ode to Power Puff Girls which also samples it in their intro theme) and Twice - Rush all samples from this Amen Break drum beat. I’m not hating, it’s cool to see Gen Z and Alpha’s eating this classic track up.

Here in 2024 to note that this is all happening again with AI.

Man I love rewatching this.

The best part is when he says “here, I’ll play it again” *plays it again*

Love drum and bass! Love its syncopated absursity!

It would've been easier to get a drum set and make your own beat over slicing and dicing a pre recorded one

This is one of the greatest videos ever uploaded to KZbin. I watched it when it came out and came back to show it to my wife today because we heard an Amen Break song and I wanted to explain it to her. Very well done sir, you are a scholar and a gentleman 🥂

Wow, 20 years after this was initially recorded and its wild to think how well its held up today. Seeing that the original audio was recorded to a dub plate that only lasts about 50 plays and this video has been viewed nearly 7 million times is simply incredible. Even the fact that i can comment on this video is astounding to me. Hearing about the evolution of the Amen Break, and knowing that there's been 20 years of development and innovation in all these mediums is a bit humbling. I hope we can all keep iterating and sharing our unique and beneficial contributions to humanity and the world. Much love ❤️ 🌍

I think this is one of the most important videos on KZbin 🙏

The orginal Winston members are true musical champions for not leaching off all of the uses of their drum break. <3 them.

1:18 @ 1.25 speed for Jungle / Drum and Bass 🤘

This video is especially relevant considering society's confusion of how AI generators are using copyrighted data to produce multimedia content. "A society free to borrow and build upon the past is culturally richer then a controlled one” - Lawrence Lessig

This video is still profound even 20ish years after the sound was pressed to acetate. It has endured into an age where others have told the continued story. "What is immortality? I will tell you -- they don't know your name, they have seen not your works, and yet your presence is felt everywhere. Nothing is forgotten, but is instead absorbed into the mass. Immortality is when one's story becomes a story told and understood by the innumerable. A body may die, but such stories endure in endless permutations."

Still perfect, after all these years!

Yall need to share this video with more people before it turns 18 in 2024, and makes a amenbreak for it.

I still reference this as one of the best informational KZbin videos, all these years later. I recommend it to all my friends that care about music.

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