Fresh-Out-the-Box!

Billy Squire May 9, 2006

Your rock song “The Big Beat” just turned up on a new compilation called “Hip Hop Roots.” What do you think of the reference?

It’s the most sampled song in history – they said that on MTV, so even if I’m wrong, I’m not making it up. The intro of the song is me with my hands in a trap case, beating on the side of it. I just walked around the studio banging on stuff, looking for a sound. . . . People sometimes write that Billy is the king of hip-hop. I didn’t even know what hip-hop was then.

I think MTV is way off the mark there, it may be sampled a lot, but there’s no way “it’s the most sampled song in history”.

Genius of “Stroke” – The Boston Globe