The Van Halen Track That FLOPPED… Until a Rapper Made MILLIONS Off Of It!



The story behind Van Halen’s song Jamie’s Cryin’ and how rapper Tone Loc made millions off the song and got a #2 hit.

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50 thoughts on “The Van Halen Track That FLOPPED… Until a Rapper Made MILLIONS Off Of It!”

  1. "If we didn't revive and, bring back alive

    Old beats that we appreciated, you wouldn't survive

    You'd be another memory to us

    Ashes to ashes and dust to dust." *Big Daddy Kane – Young Gifted and Black

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  2. But what if that was my safety track of the double featurette just recorded in my room, on my bed? Rock wasn't giving back the healthy feels at the time. I've got so many colds having to use the public phone. I don't know…

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  3. That whole era was full of thieves that pretended to be artists but were just wannabe stars.
    They 'sampled / stole' because they dont love music and arent creators.
    They love fame

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  4. If it settled out of court that means there was more to it than the initial $5000 licensing fee. Having said that Tone Loc never pretended that he wrote it himself, that's the key: he never tried to deceive anyone about that.

    Much as I hate to mention it maybe it's time to look into the similarity between "Hot for Teacher" and "La Grange" . . . . . .

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  5. Its case by case for me, I like wild thing, glad it exists and think this was good creative use of a few snippets "chopped up" to make something new whereas something like "Ill remember you" where they are basically just rapping over one of the most famous musical hooks of all time as a backing track is an abomination

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  6. Nicely done. Enjoyed this. I saw these guys in Jacksonville Florida open for Black Sabbath. This literally was before many knew who they were. Went with two Sabbath fans…they didn't even mention Sabbath on the way home. Van Halen lit the world on fire. I remember it and they became THE party band…especially in surf culture and keg partys. They were IT…for a while. Exciting times.

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  7. Shannon Tweed looks so disgusted at Gene Simmons at 1:52 I would bet though that she's also disgusted with herself for marrying a guy who was a known sex addict, so she must have known she'd never be able to stop his infidelity, but I guess she just couldn't resist the money.

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  8. The problem with Van Halen is that they do not have that many good songs. There's Jump. And then there's not much. There are catchy riffs here and there but in terms of songwriting, their albums are filled with fillers. The only other memorable songs is a cover (Why can't this be love). When you strip Eddie's guitar exhibitionism, what remains is publicity and stage presence of DL Roth, who was a terrible singer. So why is this band so popular? Same reason as Kiss or Led Zeppelin. Media and publicity, but not by music.

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  9. Tone Loc didnt sample the music. His label/producers sampled it and they told Tone Loc what the concept was. He wrote a version that was too dirty so the label had Young MC write the used version. The label told Tone Loc that "they" wrote it.

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  10. This just another youtuber that is just making up a stupid click bait story. I'm so tired of seeing these youtubers using Van Halen's name for made up stories for click bait videos.

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  11. As much as I love VH, i had the first album on vinyl in '79, I'm pretty sure Tone could have come up with something other than an Eddie lick to make that single hit, but HE was brilliant to use it regardless. Really, the moral of the story is don't be a sucker signing contracts to get big advances from bigger record companies who will sell your S out for a buck.I think MOST of the drama since then has been from the brothers themselves. The other 3 involved busted their buns for them more or less only to get dissed on just for going solo, or worse outright axed by bros.

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  12. Considering that they’re generally considered to be an ‘80s band, VH managed to put out two of the best rock albums of the ‘70s when they were just getting their feet wet.

    Also, never sleep on DLR as a lyricist; dude always had the chops even if Sammy was always the better singer.

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  13. Everybody's crapping on the vid title for the term "flopped". May be correct in a narrow sense, but everyone that likes rock loved that song back in the day. And it got a lot of airplay where I lived.

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