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  • Awsome!

  • what software is this guy using? i use logic and it seems so much more natural to the whole thing live like this

  • Sampling is the ultimate respect to musicians who would otherwise go unnoticed or fade away with time. Hip Hop brings new life in old music.

  • I love sampling!!

  • yall need to shutup about sampling..truth is 90% of hip beats have some kind of sample in it idgaf what you say, every producer EVERY producer uses samples.other wise you would either have to play a million instruments, and i highly doubt many producers can play more than 2. or if they didn't use samples all you would have is those cheap generic sound kit sounds that sound so processed. samples were really played by an artist at some point and those sounds are way better than any sound kit

  • @LilRedRasta i'm a producer, i can sufficiently play drums, bass, guitar, organ/synth piano, i also sing and rap. i'm only 18, i'm sure there is someone older and more successful than me that is capable of doing what i do, and probably does.

  • in some other country that i dont even know of 

  • YO what's up with all the hate on sampling dude almost every fucking producer has sampled at least once in there lifetime so who cares and when you sample something is the same shit as making it cause you got normalize the levels mix and master it put new drum patterns snares rhodes,synths,etc. so whats the big deal almost every artist music or not has been influenced by another person fictional or real and they mirror that new idea in this world is exclusive someone probably already wrote this

  • DO IT RIGHT IF U DO IT. GOOD TRY HOMIE

  • TERRRRRIBLE. I SEE Y U SAMPLE AND NOT WRITE. SAMPLINS COOL BUT 90% OF WANKSTAZ USE THEM. SHITS CHILDS PLAY

  • When you press a key on a piano - It makes a sound

    When I press pad on my MPC - It makes a sound

    It's all music

  • @Dronzul hahaha really? if only it was that simple but really its not. When you hit a key on a piano you hear a piano note when you hit a pad on your mpc after cutting up another artists song your are playing they're song just mixed, mastered, and altered. I love hip hop and i love sampling work but when you get down to it sampling is not production its editing and thats all.

  • @DragiTEaZZy Kidding me? Are you saying that hip hop music isn't being mastered and mixed, cause the samples already are? More often that not, the track would sound like shit if you simply sample something and put drums on it.

    My point is, the sample is mixed and mastered in relation to the original track - not your track. Just like a key on a piano is tuned, mixed and mastered in relation to all the other keys on that piano.

    Besides, I often sample from more than one song when I make a track.

  • @Dronzul you obviously misunderstood what i said, maybe if you re-read it you will understand.You said its all the same whether your sampling someone else's work then claiming its your "MUSIC" or your "BEAT" or whether your writing/playing your own notation on a piano or whatever medium it may be and its not. Never was never will be. Re-read n maybe try to grasp the point i was trying to get across in the 1st message before speaking up n making yourself look like a fool. no disrespect but damn..

  • @Dronzul hahaha really? if only it was that simple but really its not. When you hit a"key on a piano" you hear a piano note when you hit a "pad on your mpc" (after cutting up an artists song which in 99.9% of cases you dont even have rights to use) your are playing they're composition just "mixed, mastered, and altered" to "your liking". "I love hip hop" and "i love sampling work" but when you get down to it sampling is "not production" its "editing" and thats all.Highlighted the key points 4U

  • @DragiTEaZZy You're just writing the same thing as you did in your first post, and not responding to my arguments. That makes your last comment a useless one..

  • I didn't know Charlie Murphy was a producer?!

  • @cameronhorton hahahah

  • You definitely need to put up some more vids man both parts are pure genius 

  • I luv it

  • people that type datz crack me up

  • yeah bro i was diggin this but i personally would of squashed the keys and the strings. the synth was cool maybe not every loop but you know im not knockin it you were in the moment you know thats all good bro. the sample was tight for sure.

  • Anybody interested in some new Commodore samples?

    Click my name to view COMMODORE 64 SAMPLES PACK: SFX SOUND EXPANDER IN 'C'. If you click the link below it you are also taken to a special selection of SID sounds and effects taken from famous games and applications.

  • Great video. I couldn't look away.

  • I don't get it! The voice is black, but the video guy is white!

  • @TrophyBass12 Haha... I'm not racist, but I thought the same thing.

  • This is tha sample the Geto Boys used on tha song "the world is a ghetto"

  • the real answer lies with dilla

  • you cant compare sampling to composed music i dont care how simple or complicated the beat is sampling is using someone else's music period i dont care how you chop or rearrange it learn piano and play your own music its like a collage artist dissing a real painter its sensless people have the nerve to say south based producers make simple club beats well tell a sample based producer to make a beat from scratch guess what they cant do it

  • @deez4utoo its not harder nor easier to make beats from scratch or sampling. Besides many of the producers who sample can make a beat from scratch, and plays a lot of instruments, just look at madlib for example. And sampling is where hip hop came from so if youre dissin sampling you go on and diss grandmaster flash, nwa, run dmc, wu tang, eminem, dr dre, public enemy, das efx, e.m.p.d, tupac, biggie, and then you run on home and litsen to souljah boy..

  • you either sample or you dont,

    both forms are art.

    if you sample tracks properly like 9th wonder then thats an art.

    same with a producer a produces a masterpiece like scott storch on his keyboard.

    the thing is, there are a lot of people who "sample" but dont actually know how to correctly sample and thats the thing that fucks up the credibility when someone discusses sampling and producing from scratch.

    i produce my stuff from scratch, but still have respect for the samplers like dre.

  • niicee :P 

  • Should have stayed in D# that was a nice tone for the sample.

    As far as what is hip hop music and what not. You can't forget that this is music there arent any rules

    Hip Hop is art not government.

    Any thing used to add sound to a song is an instrument

    Hip Hop is constantly engineered. Even tho you have people who want to "Group" each artist hip hop is designed for artist to showcase their art not be the same

    So if you sample cool

    If you compose cool

    If you compse and sample cool

  • Very well put..real professional vid...Preach!

  • slightly out of tune

  • the ONLY thing i didnt like was the 3rd piano note....

  • This is some good inspiration!

    Thanks

  • WAR - world is a ghetto

  • i see you have a hell of a lot of equipment is there any way you can tell me what you have i noticed the mpc, turntable, studio monitors, s950, keyboard, but what are those other things? do you use software or are you using a hard track recorder

  • thing about sampling is that, When u sample you get that soul sound, somthin VERY hard to do now days with instruments or anything. Its practically impossible because these old samples were made a long time ago with Old recording techniques and the sound is very different to now days. I sample , Thing is i dont sell my beats or anything, i just make them for fun and for earorgasms :)

  • sampling is hip hop, all great hip hop songs albums producers use samples, no ifs ands or buts about it, bottom line, composed beats are club music

  • @jaytheory I agree with you Jaytheory, if you really want to add some strength to your argument. dont forget how the birth of hiphop producing was based on the sampling and looping of disco hits of that era.

    I love to hear a good song flipped into a great sample.

  • @jaytheory Yep. That about sums it up.

  • @jaytheory Na man you're wrong. What about producers like Dre who usually have only one sample per song and compose the beat around the sample? So are his beats hip-hop AND club music, or neither? What about The Roots, they compose their music and you're crazy if you don't call them hip-hop. I sample off records for all my beats but I can respect producers who compose their own music, its the difference between a painted picture and a collage.

  • in the end, is the picture enjoyable to look at?

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  • @jaytheory This is true to a certain degree. I mean those records that a hip hop producer had to be created by some composer. Hip hop is a feeling a sound. I mean look at the Roots.

  • @wtb0 many, maybe even most, of the roots tracks actually start with a sample... then the other instruments are lain over the top

  • @jaytheory man youve never heard tyler the creator then. all of his shit is composed and are soooo good. listen to his shit man

  • @thosekidswhoskate lol fail tyler the creator and left brain both use loads of samples

  • @TheKushBeast leftbrain does but this is a direct quote from tyler "I Might Have Made The First "Rap" Album In A Long Time With No Samples. See, People Are Still Creative." and you can tell if you listen to beats he makes that they arent sampled

  • @jaytheory so The Roots aren't hip hop? Don't speak in absolutes. Composing doesn't always equal bleeps blips and fake keyboard horns. By the way, "Kinda Like a Big Deal" w the Clipse. .Produced by DJ Khalil--No Samples! There's actually a guy PLAYING that guitar. Imagine that. . .

  • @jaytheory If you like to be talentless - they are club music. You know, because of your statement, I'm tempted to shit on Sampling (I've done it for over a year now.) But I won't because I respect the culture and think it CAN be artistic. NOT that most of the time it is. Most of the time, It's ripping 4 bars from a record and throwing drums over it (I'm guilty of it too). Find me a DR DRE or BOON DOC beat which are composed and tell me it's club music... hahaha Respect both.

  • @jaytheory saying all composed beats are club music is JUST AS IGNORANT as the fools who say Sampling is not music! come on now you're bigger than that... the most challenging thing for me right now is sampling and then mixing it with original playing and blending it perfectly.

  • both are valid, and not one over the other. i play instruments and sing, but if i find something i want to sample that's cool too.

    being creative when you sample is the key....

    ....what can you do with that sample?

    so no need to be a snob, slicker!

    cheerz

  • @slicker87 You are referring to the must basic way of sampling ( full obvious and recognizable pieces of music). There are many ways to sample. Peace

  • yo all that stuff in your rack can it be recorded as midi in a music program

  • Hey guys. I'm confused. is it ok to sample? must you get permission you do so?

    Do poducers lik just blaze pay b4 they can sample?

  • You can sample and do what you want, but once you decide to press albums for sale, then you have to contact the publishing company for clearance. Then negotiate percentages, the whole nine.

  • in some cases the artist or record company pays for the sample to be cleared but i think you get less money for the beat though

  • some producer do pay but when it comes down to it not much money made in sampling just do it to keep the art alive.. Just blaze made roc boys track from a sample and didn't see one cent.

  • you always gotta pay for sampling,the first person to really get charged for it was biz markies "i need a haircut album in like 1991

  • that sample use Liroy ft. Ice T- World is a ghetto

  • well done bro!

  • i'm a producer and i'm tryna get to that level.add a few more elements like a MPC ya shit nice tho stay up

  • nice

  • man bro you helped me out alot with fighting that beat maker block lol thanx

  • For awhile I thought this was Charlie Murphy talking!

  • big up. this is some dre influenced shit, huh?

  • this is a brilliant documentary

    as a sampler myself

    i can do nuffin but agree with the title of this video

    (misunderstoon art)

  • to be able to sample is an art form its not jus chopping its about creating something new from something old to me a sampler is an instrument jus like a guitar or keyboard and bro you play that instrument well 5 star

  • top beat m8 i have an mpc 5000 and a yamaha keybord which i use wuth ableton live 8 and reason 4 keep it old school 5 stars

  • i like sampling but without mpc it takes me forever to chop samples. and match the tempo in reason. and recycle sucks. i need a mpc.

  • I chop everything in the NNXT, just duplicate and set start and end points. You don't need an MPC to make good music. But I would like one :P

    great video selahdru

  • I use fl studio...i chop well on it. U can also get a midi MPD 24 for ur pc...it's cheaper than a MPC.

  • Sound like charlie murphy. I like this vid son. I don't care what no one says, sampling is an art.

  • that's right blackhebrew06. bigups 2 you

  • Total greatness...don't listen to the haters. They are mostly Lil Wayne and 808 Souljah Jeezy gimmick rap FANBOYS. Sampling is the original hiphop artform. And when it's done like this...is just incredible. Getting those few seconds and creating something new and raw....that's fucking hiphop. Nuff respect. God bless.

  • u sing a familiar song, i love hearin next ppl put their routines into words, especially the part about going with ur ear n if u start to not like it, the same will prolly happen to other ppl, big up, i enjoyd this

  • That beat is a beast!

  • That beat is ill

  • like cdamole said sampling is Real hip hop

  • gill scott good shit

  • War.

  • don't you know,

    that for me

    and for you

    the world is a ghetto.

  • i heard that sample before...what is it?

  • you best peep "war - the world is a ghetto"

  • i like the way ou put this lil "documentary" of sampling together.. me personally i prefer "original material" fresh made from scratch... if i come to a producer with a sample in mind thats another story or if the beat itself speaks to me in a way to convey a "real message" then we can take it there too!

    big ups, cards up homie!

    A.C.E.

    myspace/highercardent63

  • absolutely idiotic. was to guy below me.

    Keep doin what youre doin man, sampling doesnt hurt anyone if done correctly.

  • are you "stealing" from the dictionary? cuz you typed a few words that can be found there. You sampled the dictionary, you thief! THAKOLDREDSYMPHONY is a plagiarist! burn him at the stake and call him names only a 2nd grader would use, like, i dunno...... "Penis face"

  • Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

  • basically, apply that to making music thru sampling. you're slow if you don't see how important and amazing sampling is. we're living history ya'll. soak it up.

  • samping is cool dont get me wrong..but... you gotta make your own history...for the next generation..and for your own too...thats how art evovles and progresses through time..personally what i hate is that when hip-hop producers dont sample they still just use drum machines and stuff...i wanna see hip-hop where they use live instruments..like have a fuckin piano, and a guitar, and horns... and and actual real drum set...wouldnt that be amazing lol

  • is not about about sampling being cool. to chop and sample is an art that happened to be a part of hiphop and everybody has to accept it. Either small cats like me and thousands out there doing it bedroom style or big names like PREMIER we are all keeping that part of hiphop alive. FYI, I'm not against live instruments at all, but I do love diggin and sampling. PERIOD

  • the reason sampling is a part of hip-hop is because the originator of Hip-Hop, Kool Herc was a DJ (but back then all cool..w/e..i meant to say good..meh same thing..DJs did was host parties) and that was a technique he came up with which ended up being so amazing that it grew into it's own genre (it was actually a sub-genre of funk during its earliest stages)...and why not be diverse..we have greats that sample like dj premier, interpolate like dr. dre, and dont sample at all like the RZA

  • RZA does sample a lot...he did especially in his first Wu-Tang and solo albums. He just manipulate the samples in very odd ways that sometimes is hard to notice. After that he began experimenting with his own sounds, but to say that he don't sample at all is a mistake.

  • i know that..of course he sampled. but he's not sampling on some of his really new stuff

  • Kool Herc didn't come up with sampling. Back then they would "back spin" to keep a break going for a long time. The break may be like 2 or 3 bars so "back spinning" was a way to just enjoy the little part of the record that sounded dope. Though "back spinning" may have been what led to companies like Alesis and Akai to make samplers

  • That's how sampling in Hip-Hop started though.

  • Yeah...I guess you're right.

  • absolutely idiotic.

  • from the way u talk u sound like u into rap, but by the fact that u dont respect sampling, I think u can say fuck all the best hip hop producers of all times, fuck RZA, fuck pete rock, fuck 9th fuck everybody.

    ur a fucking dickface man, SAMPLING IS HIP-HOP

    if u think without smpling u can make super Hip-Hop hits then do sum shit and proove your point, dont just talk gangsta on the fucking internet behind ur fucking monitor

  • Damn! MesaoneCCk shut your ass up! He made you look like a freakin idiot!

  • Sample based production is a musical art form. Its just not a traditional way of making music. If you had any knowledge of Hip Hop you would know the facts. Writing words like "iz" and "datz" doesn't make you "down" either youngster.

  • i think u got the mpc 2000xl what else u got their bro?

  • lol fool

  • Wow. You have no idea what you're talking about. A lot of producers obviously have an ear for music, a ton of musical knowledge, and many know how to play several instruments like the drums, bass, string guitars, and sometimes even classical instruments just to get the perfect sound. Sampling requires a lot of compositional skills and using electronics is just another instrument. What makes you the judge of all music?

  • ROFL! Starving?

  • man i wish i had all that equipment, i only managed to buy me some decks and some speakers n couldnt do anythin with em so i sold em and bought a pc, virtual dj and a little shitty dm2 and thought id work my way up from there. but i must admit a dm2 isnt too bad when its all hooked up for vdj

  • premo did this sample on an M.O.P. joint ill sample

  • sampling in FL is so gay, mpc fo life!

  • word.

  • thats bullshit fam. Its not the tools you use its your skills. 9th wonder uses FL.

  • You ain't lyin. cats used to make the hottest beats on "stop tapes".

  • Doesn't matter what you use, as long as the outcome is DOPE!

  • You Just have to know what your doing

  • a mpc don't makes a good producer

  • You SOOOOO wrong... check out these beats by my boy justice. These beats are like 2 years old and they were made on FL Studio 3

  • i wanna lern how to sample but i use fl can enyone help?

    i try to use audacity but my samples are neever good and never fit nshit

  • love it bruh, no one knows music like this anymore, NO-ONE!

  • i do. =) but not enough people do

  • this is the reason that I make beats. So that I can ascend to a level kanye only could have dreamt of

  • 2:39 love the sample

  • where's the new vids man??

  • FUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!!!!

    @ 4:42 you nailed it... that shit sounds hot

  • nice work yo

  • Great video! Im a guitarist looking to get into sampling and beat making, trying to mix things up and do something a little different. My main style is Jazz.

    This may be an idiotic question as im new to this, but what kind of records, cd's etc can i sample without getting caught up in copyright.

  • You can sample anything thats public domain without worrying about clearing the sample. Other than that you either gotta clear it or take your chances! hehe!

  • Good piece of advice. Although there isn't as much in the public domain as there should be, there's a lot of great material and a good sampler can flip anything.

  • yea boy keep that good sampling up thight track

  • what speakers have you got ?

  • source music = The World Is A Ghetto - by WAR - released Nov. 1972

    Was #1 Pop Album of 1973.

  • very nice. . man u laid that out well. . please make more

  • You my dude!! LOL. Get at me mang just scooped up a Staton on the weekend and I've begun my journey into sampling. I'm an artist but I can't find nobody out here that make quality hip hop beats so I'm takin it upon myself....with so much love lol.

  • nice beat

  • hey cool man...........

    i need help;how i can get the keyboard midi sound in my mpc2000xl(i try it like this;the mpc midi OUT A,to the keyboard midi IN.the keyboard midi OUT,to the mpc midi IN 1).if i tuch the mpc pads the keyboard and the drums sound the sametime(piano and drums).that fuck me up....

    or i sould i get another devise for this.PLEASE HELP

  • what was the sampl please bro?

  • YOU NEVER WANNA FORCE A SAMPLE, GREAT LINE. You VIDEO IS INSPIRATION. DO U HAVE A MYSPACE?

  • thanks homie... check me out on

    myspace . com/selahdru and

    pmpworldwide . com/selahdru

  • the beat is amazin and it's inspiaring to see another producer who has that much passion for what he doeas, keep up the videos/beats man ! :D

  • damn fam...where u get that sample at???

    i just started sampling...but I dont know too much bout classics ya dig

  • thats what u gotta do fam...digg....local record shops and digg them crates...never know wat u might find

  • "The world is a ghetto" by WAR ...you can find clasics at the record stores.... thats where i look homie. it might be too much to find it online i tried.

  • hot shyt man

  • Yo dat shit is Nice kid sound like some ol Nas & AZ shit 4 real, Real Hip Hop ova here aight Keep bangin dem pads 1luv peace.

  • Good lookin out fam.

  • Where you from bro? I like your work.

    Bleek BEats

  • I appreciate that homie...im from Brooklyn born and raised and now living in Tampa Bay.

  • I love WAR

  • good shit man

  • oh this is the beat from one gud cide's "game of life"

  • sampling is art people !! ;D

  • YESSS!

  • nice ish Funny,I wouldn't have picked this sample.this definitely makes me wanna relisten to stuff I've overlooked.Nice Banger!!

  • Yeah, its good to go through your old crates because what wouldn't have been useful a couple years ago might catch your ear now.

  • DAMN! - you got some serious talent man...

    I don't know the sample, even though it seems like I should... but you made it yours i think (without knowing the original!?) and isn't that what counts?

    You' gon' be top of the underground man, I really think you got it...?! No matter what, believe in your self!

    Hip-Hop's still breathing... just very silently...

    It's the reeeeeeeeeeeal: Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop.

    And i REALLY like the video!!! Keep producin'!

    One love, One people, one planet - Brian HP.

  • YES IT IS!!!! its breathing but in sleep mode....theres still some cats that are pumping breathe into it...lets keep it breathin!

  • thatz my shit ! the world is a ghetto - no bullshit. i gotta get back to samplin' hit records...people feel the familiar. i could hear my nigga Ransome on that WAR shit..Joe Buddens, Nas..

    keep makin' it work though.

  • VERY NICE!  MAD PROPS!!!!!

  • THANKS MAN!

  • thats hot cuzz

  • I don't really seem to recognize your keyboard...?

    Help me out ...looks nice for triggereing samples ..

  • iTS A RADIUM 49 BY M-AUDIO ITS A MIDI KEYBOARD