It don't matter if you're Black or Blue...

A few months ago I listened to Michael Jackson's "Ghosts", which did have a similar beat to Sonic 3's miniboss and Knuckles' theme. I would later listen to one of those comparison mixes, although the author did it to Knux's tune, you could compare it to the miniboss as well.
Just saying.

 

If youve looked on youtube though, you'll see that alot of MJ songs have been overlayed with the knux beat. (In The Closet is another one I can think of off the top of my head)

Those comparisons alone are meaningless, since that beat was a staple of the musical era that MJ bandwagoned onto, as with the various sound bytes.

However, Blood On The Dancefloor actually seems to sample the knuckles beat in the song, so either it was some stock beat they just threw in Sonic 3 as a placeholder or who knows what else. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ0j0PbNA5g 1:33). Was that arranged by Buxer too perchance?

 

Please tell me they seriously did not look at the man and call him Naka-san.

 

If the interview was led in Japanese, it's pretty much a given that they called him Naka-san. Since he's not a child (Naka-chan), a friend (Naka-kun), an important personality (Naka-sama). He's just Mr. Naka.

 

I'm surprised you brought this up, because I thought you saw my post with the middle boss/knuckles theme using samples from stuff done by Brad Buxer. :P

Also to add more to this topic, in case no one saw my other post, but the middle boss theme takes a little bit from "It Takes 2" by DJ EZ Rock and Rob Base (something on a MTV Raps! album). Not that it uses the actual recorded samples from the song, but they try to mimic it. It isn't an uncommon sample to use either. But the "come ons" and the "hoos" are not done by anyone I've heard before.

It would make sense too, since I guess the Character Designers always wanted to have Knuckles under hip hop influence. :P