Background
According to DJ Premier,"Mass Appeal" was recorded to poke fun at radio when it came to hip hop music: [4]
"It was recorded as a joke. We just wanted to make fun of the radio on what it sounded like to get airplay. That’s why I made the background melody real simplistic. I was making fun of the radio,but I’m going to make a funky version of making fun of it. Everything’s a vision,and your brain has to be that intense to be able to capture that. What the radio played,when it came to hip-hop,it sounded too watered down. That was making fun of it,but that record did real good for us".
The track samples Vic Juris' 1980 song "Horizon Drive." [5] as well as vocals from Pete Rock's remix of Da Youngsta's 1992 track Pass Da Mic as well as well as Big Daddy Kane's 1987 track "Raw"" [6]
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