New dad Nick Valensi (wife Amanda De Cadenet gave birth to twins on Thursday) will be spending some quality time at home for the new few months. But the Stroke did manage one last gig at the star-studded, Hennessy-soaked “Global Art Of Mixing” party at Capitale last week. Opening for Kanye West of all people. New York magazine asks the guitarist, “Ever want to rap?”
NICK VALENSI: “You know, my dad gave me a guitar, so the choice was rock. I can’t imagine the circumstances that would have made me a rapper. But I’d definitely work with one. The Strokes with Kayne [sic] Rapping over the top — that would just be unbelievable.”
That got us itching to collect for you all the hip-hop tunes that have sampled The Strokes. But we could only think of one!
There are more, right? Tell us what we’re forgetting in the comments, and if you wanna e-mail some MP3s, we’ll put ‘em up here for your listening pleasure.
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I think some dirty south rapper named Tom Petty sampled The Strokes. It was pretty ill from what i remember.
There was the Genie in a Bottle/Hard To Explain mash-up by Freelance Hellraiser a few ears back. Not rap, but ’twas sampled.
If Nick Valensi’s a dad, does that mean someone(s) can force him to not look like the most destitute Stroke? Ya know, maybe wash & cut his hair and sew up his shirt so I don’t have to look at his navel?
Aah, Where for art thou, D’angelo ?
Valensi, cut your friggin hair !
While it isn’t The Strokes, the track “AMP Army” by A.M.P. (out of Vancouver, BC) uses The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” quite… obviously.
thats a good song. Hip hop needs more strokes.
Hip hop doesn’t need more Storkes. It needs more Rhymefests.
“Some D” on the Mark Ronson “Here Comes The Fuzz Mixtape.” It’s the Strokes and D’Angelo feat. Saigon. Samples, predictably, “Someday.”
theres one for last night with 50cent its really well done