Who is the most sampled artist in hip hop

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There was very much a competitive feeling of wanting to prove myself. Or Madlib, who he went after in for copyright infringement. The case was later settled out of court. The way I would try to describe it … was that the jazz field in the early s was going through a transformation.

This James Brown penned and produced song was originally released in on Brown's own label, too. Strangely — given what a killer tune it is — Lyn Collins ' track didn't chart at the time. But it became a cult favourite and popped up on one compilation after another, including on the 16th edition of Ultimate Breaks And Beats in With that exposure and the advent of the E-mu SP sampler, producers were soon borrowing liberally from it.

James Brown — Funky Drummer. With Brown's and his band's music being sampled 7, times, he's the most sampled artist in music. With 1, uses, this is one of his most borrowed-from tracks. Another example of a hip-hop track that's been sampled by other hip-hop acts. Since its release as a B-side in , with Doug E Fresh on beatbox and Slick Rick on flow, the track has become a serious weapon of choice for producers.

It's the Godfather of Soul again. This single, about the then-new US president Gerald Ford , has been logged times.