Sampling has been part of the genre since the beginning. The rapper names the three songs that artists keep turning to.
Billboard has rounded up 16 songs by R&B and rap artists that sample old African songs. By Heran Mamo Aminé‘s third studio album 13 Months of Sunshine — which dropped Friday (May 16) — pays homage to ...
While disco and funk provided the main source for samples throughout hip-hop's formative years, the mid-'90s facilitated an embrace of jazz-based instrumentals – foremost of which were the recordings ...