USA

Early

• Change the Beat
  • “Change the Beat” Fab 5 Freddy (1982)
  • 1750 samples of B-Side’s (Beside) version of “Change the Beat“
  • The World’s Most Sampled Song (BBC, Feb. 2014)
  • Personnel listing at discogs.com
  • “Rockit,” sample at 1:50- (on video), 2:52- (on Spotify)
• Wild style
  • Coldcrush Brothers vs Fantastic Freaks
  • Wild style Grand Master Flash & Rock Steady Crew
• Flashdance scene with Rock Steady Crew (1983)
• Beat Street scene: Rock Steady Crew vs. NYC Breakers (1984)
• Founding fathers: The Untold Story of Hip Hop

Freestyle

• 8 Mile Rap Battles; w/English subtitles (interpretation of lyrics on rapgenius.com)
• Jin 106 and Park Freestyles

Sampling South Asians (Sharma, 2010)

• Missy Elliott – Get Ur Freak On [Official Music Video] (2001)

• Truth Hurts feat. Rakim – Addictive (Original Video) (2002)

• Erick Sermon – React (Video) ft. Redman (2002; 2:54)

Techno-Orientalism

• “Stronger” (Kanye West, 2007)
• “Your Love” (Nicki Minaj, 2010)
• “Mundian to bach ke” (Beware of the boys)
  • sung by Labh Janjua (original)
  • Panjabi MC remix(1999, 2002 rerelease)
  • Jay-Z remix (same video, 2003); Jay-Z remix (audio, 2002); lyrics on genius.com
  • Jay-Z live performance
  • “Mix This” (Village Voice, 7/1/2003)

Code switching

• Eddie Haskell

Documentaries

• Bad Rap (2016, Salima Koroma) (Four Asian-American rappers have to overcome obstacles as they try to make it big)

Other

• New Muslim Cool (2009)
• Deen Tight (2010)
• Andre 3000’s mission to earn respect for the South (1995)
• Rappers Are Singers Now. Thank Drake. (Jon Caramanica, NYT, 11/24/2019) (log in with WesID)
  • The Pushback