Shadrach

Samples:

• Rose Royce's "Do Your Dance" is the first you hear as the intro for the song, with the bass drum and clapping.
• Sly amp; the Family Stone's "Loose Booty" comprises most of the song
• Sugar Hill Gang's, "Sugarhill Groove"
• "Never gonna let 'em say that I don't love you" - Ballin' Jack's "Never Let 'Em Say"
• "Being very proud to be an MC" - "It's the Joint" by Funky 4+1
• James Brown's, "The Funky Drummer" is the beat at the end
• Drums and bass from "Hot and Nasty" by Black Oak Arkansas
• "We love the hot butter on the popcorn" - Bar-Kays song, "King Tim III"
• "Say What?" is sampled from Trouble Funk's "Good To Go"
• "We love the hot butter on the popcorn" is from King Tim III by The Fatback Band from the album 21 Karat Fatback.

• Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego - Biblical Characters
• For those about to rock, we salute you - AC/DC song
• Jacoby and Myers - law firm
• Rambo - movie starring Sylvestor Stallone
• Steal from the rich, give it the poor-Robin Hood
• JD Salinger- wrote "Catcher in the Rye"
• Charles Dickens-author of A Christams Carol who was paid per word for his works.
• "Colonel's got the chicken" - Colonel Sanders fast food chain, Kentucky Fried Chicken, now called KFC
• Harry S Truman - President of the US
• Alfred E. Newman -MAD magazine
• Putney Swope - 1960'S movie about a black advertising executive
• Jerry Lee Swaggert - reference to the fact that Jerry Lee Lewis and evangelist Jimmy Swaggert are cousins.
• Jerry Swaggert, Jerry Falwell - televangelists
• Mario Andretti - race car driver
• Atlantic Antic - Brooklyn's oldest street fair
• "I think I'm starting to peak now Al" - reference to Al from S.S. Decontrol, a 80's hardcore straight-edge band from Massachusetts.
• "I once was lost, but now I'm found..." is from the hymm Amazing Grace
• "Who shall inherit the Earth? the meek shall" - from Matthew 5:5; "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth."
• Goodyear tires - automobile tires

Sha"drach (?), n. Metal.

A mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach, one of the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.)

© Webster 1913.