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Samples and Covers Clean Up At The Grammys!
The 55th annual Grammy Awards showed phenomenal support for sampled/covered music this week with no fewer than 16 of the awards relating to music containing samples, cover songs or remixes! One year...
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Drake – Nothing Was The Same: The Samples
Drake‘s ‘Nothing Was The Same’ hit stores yesterday following a flurry of hype surrounding the controversially titled precursor, ‘Wu-Tang Forever’, last week. The album has predictably dominated music...
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The Top 10 Most Popular Samples of 2013
2013 made for another exciting year in sampling with some huge artists and albums digging deep for obscure sources and of course recycling some classics. As this list reflects, Kanye West and his...
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Top 10 Samples of 2013: Staff Picks
Following on from our recent Top 10 of 2013’s most popular samples, we are pleased to now present (in no particular order) our Top 10 staff favorites of 2013: Jai Paul’s Track 2 (Str8 Outta Mumbai)...
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Top 10 All Time Most Sampled Records in Hip Hop
For our latest Top 10 we’d like, if we may quote Liberace, “to return to the classics”. Here we present the all time Top 10 most sampled records in Hip Hop. Many of course will be very familiar,...
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Everyone’s Sampled at The Brit Awards
Words: Sophia Ramayrat This year’s Brit Awards featured a cornucopia of artists and tracks that have been sampled, covered, or remixed, 100% of the winners having some form of connection listed on...
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Drake Drops Three New Tracks – 6 God, Heat of the Moment, How Bout Now
Drake gave the internet a heads up on Saturday that something exciting would be taking place over on the OVO website, and as we’ve come to expect, he delivered… In a week that (finally) saw a visual...
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Kindness ‘Otherness': The Samples
Solo British artist Kindness recently appeared in our top 5 Hot Artists chart, rubbing shoulders with the Hip-Hop royalty who frequently dominate the chart, Kanye West, Drake and Logic. Kindness‘...
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J. Cole ‘2014 Forest Hills Drive': The Samples
J. Cole returns to Roc Nation with his third and most refined album to date. Dropping with no lead singles, no credited featuring artists, and production coming mainly from the man himself 2014 Forest...
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The Top 10 Most Popular Samples of 2014
2014 has been another great year for sampling and although there has been a serious drought of high profile Hip Hop LPs with notable sample content (unlike previous years), we have seen some huge...
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The 57th Annual Grammy Awards – Samples, Covers & Remixes Center Stage
Last night saw the 57th annual Grammy Awards hosted by LL Cool J take place with a ceremony featuring typically extravagant performances from the likes of AC/DC, Beyonce and Pharrell. Even Electric...
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Drake ‘If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late': The Samples
image courtesy of www.ifyouretypingthisitstoolate.com This week saw the surprise release of Drake‘s latest offering, a 17-track mixtape following on his success of 2013’s Nothing Was The Same and...
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Remembering Idris Muhammad, One Year On: Top Ten Most Sampled Playlist
Legendary jazz drummer Idris Muhammad passed away one year ago today and although his output has been (and continues to be) massively influential on sample based music, his name is one that remains...
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Sample Based Music On Track For Grammy Wins
Nominations for the 58th Grammy awards have been announced and it’s looking like sample based music is set to clean up once again. Nominated in the coveted ‘Record of the Year’ category are D’Angelo’s...
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The Top 10 Most Popular Samples of 2015
2015 has been another incredible year for sample based music with the return of some legends (Dr. Dre & D’Angelo both delivered the comeback albums we thought we might never see), some eagerly...
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The WhoSampled iPhone App – Now with Spotify!
We’re very pleased to announce the release of a new version of the WhoSampled iPhone app which comes with Spotify integration. The app allows Spotify’s 75 million+ users to embark on new musical...
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Drake’s ‘Views’: The Samples [Video]
Yesterday saw the release of Drake‘s eagerly anticipated ‘Views’ LP and, as with many other albums of similar profile to have been released this year (see Kanye‘s ‘The Life of Pablo’ and just last...
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In Memory of Aaliyah [Samples Playlists]
Today marks the 15th anniversary of the death of nineties R&B icon Aaliyah. During her productive but sadly brief career Aaliyah put her name to high profile collaborations with the likes of R...
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