Hip-hop has existed for over 50 years, and since its inception, the genre has mastered the art of sampling to create some of the most iconic records in music history. Effectively using a sample ...

The song's drum break is one of the most sampled pieces of ... Markie released the album “All Samples Cleared” in 1993. A ...

Craig Charles shines a spotlight on hip hop's foundations: its samples. Thanks to passionate crate digging, rap tracks have not only been built around some of the best grooves and beats ever ...

Hip-hop is a slower style with snares on beats two and four, built around samples. This sound came from DJs repeating the drum breakdown or ‘break’ sections of funk records and later gave ...

In rap, it’s often hard to figure out where a sample comes from. Thankfully, Culture.pl is here to help: we’ve compiled a mixtape of famous American rap tracks with samples from incredibly influential ...

On this day in 2006, the hip-hop world suffered an irreplaceable loss as James Dewitt Yancey—better known as J Dilla—passed away at the age of 32. The visionary Detroit producer lost his battle with ...

Many artists have used the instrumental from 'All ... All of the Lights originally had a sample as Well Ye is often called the Muhammad Ali of hip-hop. In fact, the album 'My Beautiful Dark ...