Murder She Wrote has been sampled many times and according to Billboard, Omarion and company’s hit “is just one chapter of the history that followed ‘Murder She Wrote,’ which introduced a new style of dancehall. Chaka Demus and Pliers took Britain by storm 20 years ago with the big-selling, Sly and Robbie-produced Tease Me album (released as All She Wrote in the United States). To date, it has racked up close to 800 million views on YouTube. The song appeared on Omarion’s fourth studio album, Sex Playlist. He is an actor, known for Save the Last Dance (2001), Ali G Indahouse (2002) and Poetic Justice (1993). Chaka Demus was born in August 1963 in Kingston, Jamaica as John Taylor. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified 3X Platinum in the US. Chaka Demus, Soundtrack: Save the Last Dance. It also shared that “Chris Brown’s guest verse takes it one step further, tracing back the roots of the Omarion-fronted West Coast anthem to the Caribbean by name-dropping Chaka Demus and Pliers’ redefining dancehall smash: “Murder she wrote/You wanna know how I know what I know?” Chaka Demus and Pliers’ 1992 hit Murder She Wrote which was featured in American singer Omarion’s hit song Post to Be, has been listed among Billboard Magazine’s 50 Best Song Interpolations of the 21st Century.
Lines from the opening verse of the dancehall duo’s internationally renowned hit single, as well as the hook “murder she wrote”, were interpolated in the 2014 song which featured Chris Brown and Jhene Aiko.īillboard in their article noted that “the entire “Post to Be” pre-chorus swipes the melody and rhythm from the classic “Murder She Wrote” “I know this little girl, her name is Maxine…” section. Recently Billboard, in commemorating what it described as “the art of the interpolation at its most successful”, listed in no specific order, its 50 picks for the best examples of the form from the 21 st century, which it said “crossed genres and generations to revive old classics and make new ones”.
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