Sampling has been an integral part of hip-hop for decades. It's one of the genre's main foundations. When a producer uses a portion of an already existing song for a new record, the sample turns the ...

From MPCs to FL Studio sessions, one thing remains consistent across generations of Hip Hop and R&B: The power of the sample. With that said, few eras have been mined more heavily than the 1980s. With ...

Following the release of De La Soul’s latest album, ‘Cabin in the Sky,’ Okayplayer ranks De La Soul albums from worst to best. Since the last one blew up, here’s one you probably didn’t know 👀 ...

"There was four different samples on it we had to clear, and they all wanted 40% or 50%... we were like, 'You can all have 25%', and there was none left for me" ...

Dedicated students of ’90s hip-hop revere and revel in the soul sample chop. (For those illiterate in hip-hop speak, chopping is when a sample is cut into pieces to be used instrumentally in a track, ...

In case you missed the latest in hip-hop drops, rapper 21 Savage recently released his fourth studio album, “What Happened to the Streets?” While a new drop is usually cause for excitement, his ...

House music being celebrated in new songs from big-time acts like Drake and Beyoncé has turned into a huge conversation as of late, but the fast-paced, drum and hi-hat-riddled genre has always had a ...

You may not know who Billy Squire is but your favorite rapper does. While lots of 80s rock music can be summarized by long hair, bright lights, and an obligatory ballad, not all of it faded away when ...

The sample platform's first-ever release of its year-end stats reveals big gains in African music and country downloads while showing dips in hip-hop and K-pop. By Kristin Robinson Senior Writer Music ...

Outside of a few old-school East Coast joints from our high school days, we admit that most hip-hop goes over our heads here at UCR. But every once in a while we’ll hear something that strikes a note ...

“Sample This” would make a hell of an article. In fact, it did. In 2006, Will Hermes told the story of the story of the oft-forgotten, oft-sampled Incredible Bongo Band in the New York Times. His ...

“Just want to take a moment and say, F*ck sample clearence,” he wrote. “F*ck clearing samples. F*ck people taking all a producers money for not doing sh*t and f*ck the companies that say no just cuz.