Introduction To Bit-Hop

Introduction To Bit-Hop is a song recorded by American rapper-producer MC Zappa from his debut album It's All A Game.

Background
The song went through various stages before evolving into its final incarnation. At first, MC Zappa envisioned "Introduction To Bit-Hop" being inspired by "Jackin' For Beats" by Ice Cube and "King Of The Beats" by Mantronix. He put together several collage of short Bit-Hop beats which rapidly changed, in the style of "Jackin' For Beats", but due to several factors such as tempo disparities, conflicting sample quality, and indecision concerning the scratch samples, this concept was scrapped. Despite several different attempts in mid-to-late 2017, this version of the song never came to fruition, and the song languished for several months.

In late September of 2018, MC Zappa revisited the song, this time taking inspiration from classic DJ tracks such as "Cool V's Tribute To Scratching" by Biz Markie. He decided to use the drum break of "Dirty Funk" by Wayne McGhie and the Sounds Of Joy for the rhythmic basis. From there, he came up with a triangle bassline, and decided to fill it out with a simple sustained chord. After that, he decided that the song would have short rapped verses, and that he would scratch vocals from his single "The Jam" in between the verses.

Content
The song, which is mostly instrumental, has three 8-bar verses by MC Zappa, in between which he scratches vocal samples from "The Jam". The beat consists of a triangle bassline with an accidental note, a 25% pulse chord, a drum break, and SP-12 hi-hat programming.

Samples

 * "MC Zappa - "The Jam"
 * Wayne McGhie & The Sounds Of Joy - "Dirty Funk"

Trivia

 * The song is composed in the key of Eb minor.