Hip-hop has existed for over 50 years, and since its inception, the genre has mastered the art of sampling to create some of the most iconic records in music history. Effectively using a sample ...

Craig Charles shines a spotlight on hip hop's foundations: its samples. Thanks to passionate crate digging, rap tracks have not only been built around some of the best grooves and beats ever ...

A brief drum break from this 1969 track became the ... Yeah!" break, a favorite sample in hip-hop and dance music. One of the most referenced and reworked songs in hip-hop, its lyrics and melodies ...

In rap, it’s often hard to figure out where a sample comes from. Thankfully, Culture.pl is here to help: we’ve compiled a mixtape of famous American rap tracks with samples from incredibly influential ...

Hip-hop is a slower style with snares on beats two and four, built around samples. This sound came from DJs repeating the drum breakdown or ‘break’ sections of funk records and later gave ...

Bruce Springsteen has released "Blind Spot," an unreleased song from his long-lost hip-hop-inspired album the Streets of ...