Ice-T, "Personal"

Seeing Heart this week reminded me that they inadvertently connected Ice-T to Metallica. On Ice-T’s 1988 song “Personal,” he samples Nancy Wilson’s guitar track for “Magic Man.” Kirk Hammett, a longtime Ice fan, credits “Personal” with inspiring the guitar solo for “Enter Sandman.” Check out the little gallop that first comes in around :55 and you can hear what Kirk’s talking about.

Kirk: “I think the time has come to reveal where I actually got the guitar lick before the breakdown in Enter Sandman: It’s from "Magic Man," by Heart, but I didn’t get it from Heart’s version; I got it from a cut off Ice-T’s Power album, where he sampled it. I heard that and thought, ‘I have to snake this!’”