"If you think about it," he adds, "no other act has kept changing with the times and kept having hits for as long as the Isley Brothers. They could have copied anybody, but they chose to copy the Isley Brothers. It's flattering that they both chose to copy the Isley Brothers.
The Beatles were just expressing the youthful zeal of their generation the same way Biggie Smalls is today. "I'd be playing kickball on the playground," Ernie recalls, "and kids would come up to me and say, Doesn't it bother you that the Beatles took your brothers' song?' It didn't bother me then and it doesn't bother me now, because music keeps changing. He's in the younger half of the Isley Brothers, so he had just turned 12 in 1964 when the Beatles had a hit with "Twist and Shout." The Moptops' version was closely copied from a version released just two years earlier by Ernie's three older brothers - Ronald, Rudolph and O'Kelly. It's not the first time Ernie has experienced something like this.
I liked his voice, because it reminded me of a cartoon character, and I knew he was going to be big - bigger than even our version of Between the Sheets.' " I wanted to know who this guy was and how he had built his rap around a sample of our song. "I was riding in my car," Ernie says, "and the song came on the radio, and I said, Wait a minute, that's our song, "Between the Sheets," in there.' I was flattered but I was also curious. ERNIE ISLEY of the Isley Brothers remembers the first time he heard the single "Big Papa" by rapper Biggie Smalls.
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