How Ivan 'Doc' Rodriguez, Ice-T, DJ Paul, Juicy J, Mannie Fresh, and countless others took the iconic composer and director's score from coast to coast.
Great dig, I've never heard that Doc Rodriguez / Jaybok track before. Talking about Memphis though, DJ Squeeky deserves a mention. Also, great to see Ganksta NIP brought up; I was just revisiting that tape for the first time since it came out and it's way funnier than I remember.
......and it never even occurred to you to give props and a shout-out to Detroit's wonderful House of Krazees (now known as Twiztid) who not only have one kick ass literal adaptation of Carpenter's classic theme as the sonic backdrop to their horror rap about pure insanity and the embodiment of absolute evil incarnate, whose entire oeuvre is consistently sprinkled with references to Michael and Judith Myers, Haddonfield, Halloween night babysitter murders, as well as sound bytes of Dr.. Loomis, "You don't know what death is!" and various sundry other homages, refrains, in-jokes, actual lines from the film soundtrack generously added to practically their complete back catalogue, which reads as a literal encyclopedic paean that constitutes an incredible wealth of so much more than many other rappers who just lazily lifted the original theme music itself to add to their mixes!! Come on, bro! They even released an original album titled, `The Night THEY Came Home,' and still you either were completely unaware of HOK's existence or else honestly considered them appropriately deletion-worthy from inclusion in this articlde which you have titled, `John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN theme was a staple for rap replays and samples,' and you neglected to even mention in passing a quality rap act whose entire existence was based upon Carpenter's film, OST and other classic HALLOWEEN mythology?!? Damn, homie!!
Great dig, I've never heard that Doc Rodriguez / Jaybok track before. Talking about Memphis though, DJ Squeeky deserves a mention. Also, great to see Ganksta NIP brought up; I was just revisiting that tape for the first time since it came out and it's way funnier than I remember.
......and it never even occurred to you to give props and a shout-out to Detroit's wonderful House of Krazees (now known as Twiztid) who not only have one kick ass literal adaptation of Carpenter's classic theme as the sonic backdrop to their horror rap about pure insanity and the embodiment of absolute evil incarnate, whose entire oeuvre is consistently sprinkled with references to Michael and Judith Myers, Haddonfield, Halloween night babysitter murders, as well as sound bytes of Dr.. Loomis, "You don't know what death is!" and various sundry other homages, refrains, in-jokes, actual lines from the film soundtrack generously added to practically their complete back catalogue, which reads as a literal encyclopedic paean that constitutes an incredible wealth of so much more than many other rappers who just lazily lifted the original theme music itself to add to their mixes!! Come on, bro! They even released an original album titled, `The Night THEY Came Home,' and still you either were completely unaware of HOK's existence or else honestly considered them appropriately deletion-worthy from inclusion in this articlde which you have titled, `John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN theme was a staple for rap replays and samples,' and you neglected to even mention in passing a quality rap act whose entire existence was based upon Carpenter's film, OST and other classic HALLOWEEN mythology?!? Damn, homie!!