If, like me, you don't remember the last decade, our Go-Go Bites feature was occasionally running down a history of national/mainstream songs taking cues, sounds, and ideas from go-go music. And I'm bringing it back for the '10s.

Today the biter is Jesse Jaymes, the Asher Roth of his generation*. His 1992 single "Shake It Like A White Girl" shared a title and concept with a E.U. record. Alright, OK. Shaking it like a white girl isn't the most original idea, maybe this was just a case of parallel thought. But no, his second record "$55 Motel" borrows the hook, line, and concept from one-hit go-go rapper Vinnie D.

(It was actually a $56 dollar motel, according to Sidney Thomas' excellent Diamonds In The Raw book, but they rounded off.)

If this all seems a little irrelevant, it's because it is. But strangely, Jaymes' version of "Motel" has recently found an unexpected second life on YouTube's AudioSwap service, which offers legally acceptable replacement music for YouTube videos that have had their audio silenced by legal claims. So there are now dozens of incongruous YouTube clips set to Jaymes' chants of Vinnie's hand me down refrain. Like the one above.

(But but but but, in the words of Sticky Fingaz, wait it gets worse—Jaymes' only album, Thirty Footer In Your Face, seems to boast another apparent jack, with a track entitled "Sho Nuff Bumpin'," which is also the name of another EU classic. I thankfully don't own a copy of the Jaymes album to compare notes.)

Here's a strange example of Go-Go resonance for today. A chunk of the score to Super Nintendo's hover car classic F-Zero bears a striking resemblance to the lead melody from Trouble Funk's 1982 classic "Let's Get Small." Was Japan cranking Trouble like that? Did composers Yumiko Kameya and Naoto Ishida import a hold of a subtitled copy of Good To Go? Or is this merely a coincidence? You be the judge, after the jump.

Ask anyone in the industry about go-go music and they'll tell you the same thing: it plays exclusively to the the greater DC area. This new series is an attempt to refute that claim by presenting hard evidence of Go-Go's influence throughout the music world. It'd be hypocritical to complain about biting since most of the great bands are essentially cover bands, but it's still worth noting that there is sometimes a two way street of influence.

First up is Jay-Z, a little known Brooklyn rapper who is probably best known for collaborating with the group Original Flavor and carrying Big Daddy Kane's weed. But for his 1999 single, the Rockwilder produced "Do It Again" (video above), Jay swiped the hour by hour after-the-hook up chorus and concept from Rare Essence's DC favorite "Overnight Scenario." It may seem no sweat off RE's back to have such a small fries rapper borrowing their ideas, but Jay-Z actually managed to turn "Do It Again" into a minor hit. I think it was one of his only ones.

There was some talk of a lawsuit a few years after the fact, but the outcome was never announced. It doesn't seem like there would be much in the way of legal recourse, though. I don't imagine this Jay-Z character has very deep pockets anyway. Though he did happen to drop a new album yesterday. It's a low profile affair and has almost completely overlooked by the media thus far.