The French continue to be some of the most imaginative samplers of Jones’ work. Fred Falke, a contemporary of Daft Punk whose ...

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By Trevor Anderson Since Billboard first began its national survey of song sales in the 1940s ... of rap music and growing appetite for hip-hop culture set the stage for the genre’s explosive ...

Following the much-anticipated release of Pink Friday 2, Nicki Minaj has unquestionably solidified her status as one of ...

The art of sampling draws on the ability to manipulate and combine small snippets from other songs to create a completely new product. In rap, it’s often hard to figure out where a sample comes from.

But one area the rapper won’t be saving costs on is his music, in particular the split of profits he shares with musician ...

It’s a testament to just how popular these songs were. “To me, the Hip-Hop genre gets a lot of flack. When you try to take a little sample, a little audio file and splice it up to a way you ...

Songs like Will Smith’s “Gettin ... This era also saw a massive decline in the number of samples used to create hip-hop beats, due mainly to the increased cost of licensing those samples.

They telegraphed their unabashed aspiration for wealth, sex, and power through liberal use of disco samples ... hip-hop’s gilded age more enthusiastically than Bad Boy, and no song announced ...

Sting doesn’t feel that the disturbing allegations of sexual misconduct facing Sean “Diddy” Combs “taint” the English ...

The fact that we can use hip-hop for one of its original purposes ... (Credit: Brian Stukes/Getty Images) Scorpio, who produced the song using samples of 2Pac’s All Eyez on Me single “2 ...