Here are some hip-hop tracks with the best music samples of all time. "It Was A Good Day" - Ice Cube Sometimes, it’s important to pause and appreciate the good moments in life—a sentiment ...

Effectively using a sample requires great skill from the artist or producer, but it also showcases a rapper's creativity in reimagining music ... of the best samples used in hip-hop.

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Roy Ayers, the towering jazz figure, passed away on Tuesday, March 4, at 84. Hip-Hop Wired has put together eight essential ...

The 1990s is often referred to as the golden age of hip-hop. During that era, rap music gained more attention from mainstream audiences, regional music such as East Coast vs. West Coast was ...

As ever with popular music, authenticity is chimerical ... welcoming restaurants. Because hip-hop relies on the spoken word, samples and borrowed beats, the accents, sub-cultures and mannerisms ...

Markie released the album “All Samples Cleared” in 1993 ... “We're going to be playing the music we're talking about.” Go: A History of Hip-Hop Sampling with John Morrison and Josh Leidy, 7 p.m.

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.

Roy Ayers was a beloved sample source who made it a point to collaborate with rappers as the genre rose to prominence ...

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