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May 28, 2020 · It's safe to say there's a heavy bias in this list in favour of the classic samples of Hip Hop's fastest evolving decade, the 1990s. Kendrick Lamar 's 'Sing About Me...' bucks that trend however as one of only two tracks on the list not released in the '90s.
- Billy Cobham, “Heather” / Souls of Mischief, “93 ’Til Infinity” Billy Cobham’s effervescent “Heather” has an undeniable airiness that hip hop gravitates towards.
- Herb Alpert, “Rise” / The Notorious B.I.G., “Hypnotize” In the mid-1980s, trumpeter Herb Alpert released Janet Jackson-laced hits like “Diamonds” and “Making Love in the Rain,” capitalizing on the urban radio cachet he’d already won with his number one funk instrumental from 1979, “Rise.”
- David McCallum, “The Edge” / Dr. Dre, “The Next Episode” David McCallum’s “The Edge” has been flipped a few times in hip hop history. Missin’ Linx tossed brolic, east coast rhymes back and forth on their under-heralded cut “M.I.A.,” while Masta Ace took a reflective approach on “No Regrets” off his seminal album, Disposable Arts.
- Rick James, “Super Freak” / MC Hammer, “U Can’t Touch This” According to director Sacha Jenkins’s Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James documentary, the titular original bad boy of funk hated rap music usurping his biggest hit in 1990, when Oakland’s MC Hammer introduced his diamond-selling magnum opus, Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ’Em, with the instantly infectious “U Can’t Touch This.”
- Nas - The World Is Yours. And so, we finally arrive at the #1 spot. This is the second track from Nas's seminal debut album Illmatic to appear on the list, this time produced by all time great Pete Rock.
- Metal Fingers - Coffin Nails. A third appearance for DOOM here, this time under his Metal Fingers alias, a moniker used for his role as producer, often in the context of his 'Special Herbs' instrumental collections or on his DOOM solo material.
- Mobb Deep - Survival of the Fittest. Having worked extensively with A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip (see above), Mobb Deep adopted the practice of utlising jazz samples to achieve a very different result to that heard on most of Quest's own material.
- Mobb Deep feat Big Noyd - Give Up The Goods (Just Step) Esther Phillips' 'That's All Right With Me' is the sort of melancholy Soul cut that would not sound of place in an early RZA production.
From The Isley Brothers to Stevie Wonder, here's a list of some of the best samples used in hip-hop.
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Sep 14, 2023 · Along the way, a number of jazz, soul, R&B, and even rock recordings became foundational Hip-Hop documents, with many even finding their way into the mutating DNA of other genres. Here, then, is the musical motherlode — the most sampled songs of all time.
