File under “songs you spent a good chunk of a decade finding the name of”.

Used to hear this damn song everywhere and whenever I tried to use Shazam, I would get the weirdest of results.

That’s what happens when a song uses an extremely popular sample. In this case, a trumpet loop from Maceo & The Macks’ Soul power 74. Used by every discerning rap producer, this hook lends itself to the darkest of lyrics or the funkiest of parties.

Oddly enough, I ended up finding the song because of Grand theft auto San Andreas. Maceo & The Macks’ are on Master Sounds radio station and a random carjacking by CJ gave the answer for the song I was looking for so long.

Black Machine are an Italian band and like many early 90s electroitalian one hit wonders, they build a funky beat over a cool 70s sample. As many of those bands, information is scarce, but their one hit remain with us.

-Sam J Valdés López