What rap song is sampling Berlioz?

January 25, 2007 1:43 PM

There's a new-ish Rap song out there. I heard it this weekend... can't remember where. It's got a part sampled in from a song called "Songe d'une nuit de sabbat" or "Dream of a Witches Sabbath" from Symphony Fantastique by Hector Berlioz. What song is it?

The only version of the original I can find online (for free) is a synthesized recording here:

http://dariogalimberti.interfree.it/htm/mp3eng.htm (Do a Find for Berlioz)

Skip to about 2:40 into it, you'll hear a bell and long, low notes.

It's the same music from the opening credits of The Shining, if that helps.

posted by bofe to media & arts (5 comments total)

I heard this recently, on a commercial during the playoff NFL game last weekend. It was a basketball commercial, probably for Nike. I can't find any info on it myself, sorry.
posted by knave at 2:03 PM on January 25, 2007

Lookie what I found!

I'm assuming the group is "The Second Coming".
posted by knave at 2:06 PM on January 25, 2007

Ok, it's Juelz Santana and Just Blaze.
posted by knave at 2:08 PM on January 25, 2007

I'm at work and can't listen to it, but if it's the part I'm thinking, then Berlioz himself "sampled" it from it's prior incarnation known as the "Dies Irae" theme.

Someone let me know if I'm right.
posted by sourwookie at 4:53 PM on January 25, 2007

You are in fact correct, sourwookie. It's also used in Liszt's Totentanz, among other places.
posted by Johnny Assay at 5:01 PM on January 25, 2007