A Night at the Hip Hopera is the third album by The Kleptones. It fused Queen's rock music with rap vocals and many sound bites from movies (such as Ferris Bueller's Day Off) and other sources. Unlike 1992's cancelled BASIC Queen Bootlegs album and despite its title, it is considered a bastard pop album rather than a hip-hop album.
On 8 November 2004 Waxy, the main site that hosted A Night At The Hip Hopera, received a cease & desist notice from the Walt Disney Company (Hollywood Records) for illegal sampling of songs by Queen, similar to the banning of DJ Danger Mouse's The Grey Album.
Track listing
"Precession" – 2:06
Samples – Queen, "Procession" Samples – Queen, Queen: The eYe soundtrack Sound bites – Sigue Sigue Sputnik, "She's My Man" Sound bites – Flash Gordon Sound bites – The Dramatics, "Introduction" Sound bites – GG Allin, "Intro (M. Board)" Sound bites – Kosmo Vinyl, introducing The Clash (Kingston Advice: Live in Jamaica 1982 bootleg) Sound bites – Frankie Goes to Hollywood, "One February Friday" "See" – 4:14 Samples – Queen, "One Vision" Samples – Queen, Queen: The eYe soundtrack Samples – Quentin Harris, "Let's Be Young" Samples – KRS-One, "Hip Hop vs. Rap" Samples – Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, "The Message" Samples – Kelis, "Milkshake" Sound bites – Aqua Teen Hunger Force (episode: "Revenge of the Mooninites") Sound bites – Ferris Bueller's Day Off Sound bites – Lil Jon and the Eastside Boyz, "Luke Talkin Shit" Sound bites – Ludacris Sound bites – JAM Creative Productions jingles Sound bites – World News Tonight (9 March 2004 broadcast) "Live" – 3:10 Samples – Queen, "Keep Yourself Alive" Samples – Afrika Bambaataa & Family, "Got to Get Up/Just Get Up and Dance" Sound bites – Calvert DeForest, Run-D.M.C.
