That's one of the best beats ever and entirely appropriate
The original record is 'Big Beat' by Billy Squier, a rock classic in its own right:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcQYgrm6Vv0

Fucking LOVE.IT.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 11:01, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Ooh thank you now I know the original track
Though I am quite ashamed to admit I only just found out that Can't Touch This used a sample.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 11:08, Reply)

I've done whole sets
of 'records you don't know, but know a tune that sampled it' before, smart-arse twat that I am.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 11:11, Reply)

You'll probably hate him
but Girl Talk are well worth a listen. My favourite album of his opens with a rapper talking about his bitch over the Spencer Davis Group. Fantastic. There have been many songs that I hear snatches off and then realise what they are from that.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 11:15, Reply)