Stop Bitching About Sampling
I don’t want to get into anymore arguments about sampling. I don’t want to hear about how it violates some arbitrary sense of integrity. And I DEFINITELY don’t want to hear about how it discourages creativity. This, right here, is some genius-type shit. Did anyone have any clue that “On To The Next One” was built on a Justice sample? Hell no you did not. Watch this:
That is nuts, and you know it. The essence of sampling: one great creative work inspiring another. Are you surprised that Pharrell and Q-Tip put Swizzy on to “D.A.N.C.E.”? Great minds inspired by great music inspiring each other. DO NOT argue with me about sampling anymore. DO NOT try to stifle great minds. Hit the jump to see Mr. Keys recap how the whole process went down.
9 more beats in the wind? Can we get a leak please?
Props to MTV.
T3 of Slum Village
Miguel Jontel
Aloe Blacc
Yelawolf
Guilty Simpson
Homeboy Sandman
Questlove
Sage Francis and B. Dolan
Treklife
Element
DJ Webstar
Moonsatellite
people forget that sampling is practically what hip-hop music was founded on. and that it wouldn’t be as powerful and reach as broad of an audience as it does if it weren’t for this integral characteristic!
amen brothas and sistas
btw, hell no i did not.. and it’s fucking amazing! best pro-sampling argument i’ve heard in 2010!!
^ cosign
For real, the samples take on completely different meaning when they’re used by DJ’s. Sure, the sample takes away from the original “intended” use, but in the process something different is created while the original meaning is maintained, it’s not like something is destroyed in the process, the very fact that the sample is being used is a tribute to the original form from which it was found. However jonno, you can’t deny that the “creative commons” licensing also poses potential defemation of the original as well, someone takes a sample out of context and uses it for the complete opposite reason of its intended use, well then we have a problem.
@onelove you make a good point. there is plenty of wack production out there and its made even worse when it mishandles (and disrespects) a great sample. i do believe that artists should have some form of precise control over who samples their works. however, as long as the original artist is properly credited and the sample is used effectively and creatively i think its a beautiful thing. how to enforce this? i really have no clue. i interned at a label last summer and avoided the publishing dept like it was plague
haha word man, I guess as long as miley cyrus isn’t using samples off the Infamous for a song about her teenage crush I definitely support all forms of sampling.
i really like tracks that constantly answer the question “What’s this song called?” for you, lol
on2thenext1
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Perfect example of how it’s not THAT you sampled, it’s HOW you sampled.
Swizzzzy!
If you like Hip Hop but you’re ideologically against sampling, you probably shouldn’t be listening.
If Miley Cyrus sampled The Infamous the results would be fucking awesome