The “Dub Beats” remix of Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” is a mostly instrumental reworking of the pop hit, focusing largely on the track’s bass and percussion elements and highlighting the vocal ad libs recorded by the iconic Andrae Crouch Choir. Also of note, previously unused portions of Prince’s guitar work are occasionally layered in. The remix is perhaps most notable for including a sample (“That skinny motherfucker with the high voice!”) from
“Bob George”, a track from Prince’s then-unreleased, highly-bootlegged Black Album. Originally scheduled to be released in 1987 (but shelved until 1994), the sample on the “Dub Beats” remix in 1989 was the first commercially available snippet of Black Album material.