Plan B
Ill Manors

psychofrug said on Tuesday, 20 November 2012:
Thanks for sharing your thought Kenneth but I'm pretty sure Plan B sampled Peter Fox because the sample is listed in the album notes and I think the chorus is inspired from Alles Neu aswell. The Drums are also already listed as Amen, Brother by The Winstons. If you are interested in Hiphop that is not entirely about the Drugs and Sex parts of life, their are alot of other great artists in the Underground scene about lately, especially in the UK.

Kenneth Pounders said on Tuesday, 20 November 2012:
Actually he probably more likely sampled IV. Allegro Non Troppo by Dmitri Shostakovich, and didnt even use Peter Foxes track at all, I say this because peter fox most likely remastered that string part and it doesn't sound the same in Plan B's track. It would be much easier. Also the drum break in the chorus is from an old track...I can't identify it off the bat...I will have to look through my vinyl samples, but I have definitely heard it before. Although, what sticks out to me most about this track is that its not like most rappers today that just rap about drugs and sex. This talks about politics and reasoning behind why all those things happened. It tells a story...it has a point, and I respect Plan B for that.

unxdan said on Tuesday, 13 March 2012:
I had considered submitting this as a cover, however I thought that a cover usually makes more reference to the original vocals in some way, but this type of remix is common in hip-hop.

unxdan said on Tuesday, 13 March 2012:
I just want to say, I read a lot of people saying that Plan B sampled Peter Fox, but I ultimately submitted this as a remix for this reason:
If you listen to Peter Fox' song Alles Neu, even if it's the instrumental of the track, the only string part you could pull from the track would be in the intro, the rest has drums!

So Plan B took the arrangement of the string parts that Peter Fox used [this part for the verse, this part for the hook, and this part to transition between them], but he would have had to go back to the original track by Dmitri Shostakovich in order to take those strings without the rest of the instruments from Peter Fox' track.