The Art of Hip-Hop Sampling at Duke University

[RoyaltyAuthority]

TRUE ART!

[jungenbum]

Sampling is the cut-and-paste of the music world. It's the easiest way to get your music known out there. Once people recognize the familiarity between the song and it's sample, they are more likely to listen to it because they already like the way it sounds. That's why there's a lot of sampling in the hip-hop industry, it's an easy way to get your music known out there and to sell records.

[DexterPowercrush]

It's most certainly not the easiest thing to do. Especially when most of the world consider it theft.

[skjera1]

Try to look a little bit further than Kanye West. Look up some guy you may not have heard of called DJ premier, and see if you can spot his samples.

Or Dilla. Those guys can make up a whole song out of a few seconds of a sample, even with vocals layed over the part they want to sample.

I'm very sure no kid would have heard of the Charmels if it wasnt for RZA.

[skjera1]

Sampling the right way is way harder than playing the guitar belive me. To be the best at sampling (finding records/films, then portions to sample and chopping them up the right way, adding different drums, bass etc) or the best at playing the guitar requires the same effort

But to just to cut up 25 seconds of a song in FruityLoops and rhyme over it, or playing horse with no name is just as easy.

What kids know all about soul from the 60s,70's or 80's anyway? So the "familiar" argument is weak

[LexMassive]

Yeah, it can be a shame when people take the easy road but sampling has many possibilities. I made a beat that included a violin sample and after hours of tweaking the sound in a software sampler it ended up sounding like dark piano chords and nothing like the violin sample i had initially set upon.. you can do some wonderful manipulation through sampling, some people just don't.

[Vertigo3TC]

the best way i've heard sampling explained was by this beatmaker named Boon Doc on youtube: he said that it's like the beatmaker is an artist who paints pictures. God created the colors of our planet. The artist didn't make the colors, God did. He's taking those colors and painting a beautiful picture out of them. Now, the producer hears a sample he likes (the colors) and does what he wants with it to make the final beat (the picture).

[huszar02]

My only concern about sampling is that it's getting to the point where some songs are sampled repeatedly and a lot of money and notoriety is made from using the same beats.

The Isley Brothers, for example, have been indirectly responsible for several hits and many clone songs through "Between the Sheets".

Sampling IS an art, but the artists are being lazy. They aren't resurrecting old and obscure songs, they use songs that people already liked and were good in their own right.

[stormtrooper1822]

sampling is the creative process of using a sound that expresses yourself,, like you hear a riff in a classical song, and it just clicks to you, ya know? and you like im gunna sample that, then ya drop,,,, its an expressive art

[oArtVandelayo]

Laziness and lack of talent.

[FredGuadalupe]

do some homework...find out who jay dee was and tell me he was lazy and lacked talent. that man played every instrument under the sun. sampling is a way of perpetuating genius and making it a part of your own art. who else is going to keep the legacies of the great soul/blues/r&b musicians alive? go listen to some luther ingram, donny hathaway, the album Welcome 2 Detroit or any other Jay Dee record and tell me its lack of talent.

[Aardvarked88]

So photographers are lazier and talentless compared to artists too? You're an ignorant idiot.

[Prodigies]

That is the best use of analogy when discussing sampling I've ever heard. I'm definitely stealing that! lol.

[BassBeatsProductions]

let me see you do what he just did

[Rapdream]

dude thiz shows you got no idea of what yo talking bout... SAMPLING IS AND WAS ALWAYS part of the material. just MAKE SURE you get the RIGHTS from the OWNER and PAY them if needed and everything will be ok trust me.......

[BeatMonarchs]

check out my dj shadow beat

i made it purly of samples!

[danenhod]

9th wonder is incredible, esp. of little bro. minstrel show. i have a problem with people making the stereotype that hip-hop is an african phenomenon. its not exclusive to the black community, and really its whites who make up 90% of the hip-hop market.

[Knightwind24]

Whites do not make up 90% of the hip-hop market. Those stats were exaggerated. When those suverys were taken , Asians were counted as White.

[100ways2die]

what is the name of the song at the end

[MrRedPolo]

bob james, cant remember the track

[JR71234]

its called nautilus by bob james in the beginning. u gotta look on itues and browse around.

[maluco97]

Take Me to the Mardi Gras - Bob James

[SoulOfTheSouth]

9th Wonder used The Dramatics "Ocean of Thoughts and Dreams" for Destiny's Child "Girl" on 00:50.

[thenewrapstyle]

rap. rap. rapitty rap rap

[Quintessential01]

ok this didnt really show me or tell me how to sample. can anyone help me with questions about sampling using logic pro

[328823]

dramatics

my mind just driffs awayyyyy

[328823]

the fabulose dramatics

my mind just driffs away..

[StopLookAndLearn]

9th wonder is one of the best

[sabotagebeatz]

the beyonce sample is from the dramatics

[veuvecliquot]

fyi 9th didnt do isht to that sample for beyonce besides give it a drum beat. i mean props on other stuff hes done but that beat is a poor example of the sampling craft

[aqaq1q1q]

Your stupid. The producers job is to create a landscape to help the singer/rapper best convey the concept of their song. All you producers out there need to learn that your not the main attraction!! The artist is. All these producers want to make their music so creative and original so that they get noticed more than the artist. If the sample is just a loop, but it allows the artist to be the most creative then that is how it should be. Save the overly creative stuff for your instrumentals.

[stony4321]

This video is bullshit. It *was* an artform. Now people just sample the same songs over and over. Or just have the same bass note playing over and over. It's not hard to make these kind of beats.

[rapsfan2007]

vanilla ice

[crazycrosbie]

without sampling, no one would know who robert van winkle is.

[driftrap]

whos he...? lol

[mushembo1]

hahahhahahahahhahahahaha