+1: Glenn Jones feat. Jay-Z, “Good Thang (Clark Kent Remix)” (1992)
Jay-Z’s Jamaican Moment: “Good Thang (Remix)” samples Cutty Ranks
OK, here’s a super-rare, uber-obscure one for all you nerds. Back in ’92, when Jay-Z was an unsigned MC known mainly as a sideman for speed rapper Jaz-O, his good friend and early producer DJ Clark Kent was working at Atlantic Records, and tried to get Hov signed there. That didn’t happen, but he did wind up contributing a guest verse on Kent’s Cutty Ranks-sampling, ragga hip-hop remix of new jack swing singer Glenn Jones’ “Good Thang.”