Sampling

One of the reasons why a lot of the older heads don't like the way new beats are made is because it's not innovative. They basically find an old song that sounds good, loop it, and say theyve made a beat. I can't blame them because sampling costs so much nowadays. Back in the day you could get away with sampling whatever the hell you wanted. Not so much now. There are people out there waiting for you to sample something without paying just so they can slap you with a lawsuit. Because of this, I can't be too mad when someone takes one sample and loops the shit. My personal opinion is, if it sounds dope...use it. It makes for a good song and some of the younger folks will try to find what the sample is and it will expose them to some of the artists from way way back.

I just wanted to show a quick example of how sampling used to be. One of the coolest things to me is when a producer takes samples from various old school songs, puts them together, and the samples sound like theyve belonged together since day one. Here's an example. This track by Main Source is called "Looking At The Front Door." Large Professor sampled from numerous different songs and put it all together on one track...and it worked. The sample breakdown is after the video.



The main musical part of this beat comes from a Donald Byrd track called "Think Twice." The sample is at 1:47. Obviously Large Professor did some filtering and other things to freak the sample.



The "Chicka Boom Boom Boom" part of the song comes from a song by the Pazant Brothers fittingly called "Chick A Boom." Sample is at 1:23.



The ending part comes from a Third Guitar track called "Baby Don't Cry." Sample is at 1:10



There's a couple more samples on this track like Detroit Emeralds-Youre Getting A Little Too Smart which is the track Large Pro got the drums from. Unfortunately the version that starts off with only the drums isn't on youtube.

Anyway, thats just a little something to show you how back in the day producers used to sample from all sorts of tracks and put them together to make some dope beats.