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Beck says he wanted to sample Labi Siffre before Eminem got there first

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Beck says he was planning to sample Labi Siffre’s ‘I Got The…’ before Eminem beat him to it.Marshall Mathers famously used the track in his massive 1999 hit ‘My Name Is…’, but wasn’t the first to think about sampling the 1975 song.Speaking to Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music to mark 25 years of his fifth album ‘Odelay’, Beck revealed that his producers the Dust Brothers were planning on sampling ‘I Got The…’ for him for the follow-up to his 1999 record ‘Midnite Vultures’.However, in a meeting with Interscope executive Jimmy Iovine, Beck was played an advance version of ‘My Name Is…’, which sampled the same song.“I went in my first meeting with Jimmy Iovine and I had ‘Midnite Vultures’ and I was going to play it for him,” Beck told Wilkinson..

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