Who Are You, Marion Black?
Rare is it, on this side of Lava Sauce, that a topic is stumbled across that has not been recognized with that most 
basic of recorded acknowledgment, the Wikipedia entry. However, it has come to my attention that a man whose voice is instantly recognizable to myself and other musical sophisticates has somehow gone unnoticed by the millions of editors of The Free Encyclopedia.
The sample prominently featured in the opening bars of RjD2′s song, “Smoke and Mirrors,” from his 2002 classic, Deadringer, in which a voice sings:
Who knows what tomorrow will bring,
Maybe sunshine, and maybe rain,
But as for me I’ll wait and see,
And maybe it’ll bring my love to me,
Contrary to popular belief, samples have to actually come from someplace, and the vocal performance sampled by Mr. D2 comes from a man who apparently no one knows anything about named Marion Black. A Google search for Mr. Black revealed little, other than Last.fm and iLike profiles featuring the song sampled on Deadringer, “Who Knows.” Most sites that mention Black offer similar sentiment to the article you are currently reading, which could more or less boil down to: “I like that RjD2 song, and this is the song that the sample comes from.”
As a responsible cataloger of human history, I have taken the initiative and established an entry for Marion Black on Wikipedia. It has almost no information on it, so if anyone reading this knows anything about this dude, please beef it up a little. Thank you.
“Hear” and “here” in the same sentence, not bad.
