Sampling continues to thrive in hip hop today, and Drake is no stranger. Off Lauryn Hill’s famous album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, ‘Ex-Factor’ provides the mesmerising vocal loop on Drake’s hit, ‘Nice For What’. Here are ten of hip hop’s most popular samples.Īn icon in her own name, but you may not immediately pick up on the loop that characterises one of 2018’s biggest tracks. From Biggie sampling up to ten tracks on a song that proceeds to be sampled dozens of times to the crucial role sampling plays in Kanye West’s production (often using five in one record), the use of sampling in hip hop proves that we can all take inspiration from history. An essential part of hip hop music is the act of taking parts from other songs and integrating them into one’s own – often without listeners knowing. Hip hop simply would not be what it is today without samples.
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