Comedian Will Ferrell has come forward to offer his reaction to getting sampled by Jay-Z and Kanye West on their current Watch the Throne single, "N*ggas In Paris".
Honored by the opportunity to be featured on one of the LP's most-lauded tracks, Ferrell said he hopes he can get more exposure on the hip-hop scene.
"Kanye reached out to me and I said, 'Of course,' " Ferrell wrote in an e-mail referring to the Blades of Glory sample request. "I was completely flattered when they asked if they could sample me into the song ... and when I heard it for the first time, I just started to laugh because it felt so surreal. But I really did like the song." So much so, in fact, that Ferrell said he's hoping to take the Throne collaboration to the next level --
"We were trying to film a piece that they would use on the video boards of their concert, but haven't gotten it together," he wrote -- and the whole process has opened his eyes to an entirely new career opportunity: Being the go-to sample guy on the hip hop circuit. "I think [something from] 'Step Brothers' would be good [to use in a song]," he wrote. "Or the Woody Allen movie I did, 'Melinda and Melinda.'"
Source: Sohh.com & MTV
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