The most scratched scratch of all scratches

Graffiti artist and hip hops man about town Fab 5 Freddy released a record in 1982 called Change The Beat. On the flip side was a French female rapped version by a "Fab 5 Betty". The last 5 seconds, a vocodered vocal saying "Aaaargh, This Stuff is Really Fresh" has become easily the most scratched sound of all time, the turntablists choice for battle and playtime. What's so special? It's got a variety of subtle attack points with long decayed sounds, plenty of texture that produces a good crisp mid to top end punch from the needle without anything heavy underlying it.

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Here's my favourite use of the scratch, on the Coldcut remix of Eric B & Rakim's Paid In Full. It kicks in at 4.50 but the record's always worth a listen in its entirety. Coldcut got a mere £750 for this remix. Bought a drum machine apparently with the proceeds (and prompted them to make an instrumental version called "Not Paid Enough") and the record gave them a big leg up in the industry and a ton of credibility.

Anyway.......the remix needs a post on its own to uncover the samples....