“It always surprised me when other people sampled my music,” Steve Miller once told American Songwriter. Despite the frontman’s shock that other artists, in a wide range of genres, would choose Steve ...

Sampling has quietly reshaped music over the past five decades. A snare hit here, a vocal yelp there, maybe a drum loop that becomes the foundation for an entirely new genre. It’s wild how a forgotten ...

To celebrate the art of sampling, here, thanks to WhoSampled.com, are 10 of the most sampled (and perhaps some of the most important) tracks in music. This fairly obscure track from 1969 has, at the ...

EPMD helped usher in a new era in New York hip-hop when they arrived with their funk drenched samples and bass-heavy beats. The sound created by Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith was different and fresh, ...

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Madlib, DJ Premier, Beyoncé, Calvin Harris – they all owe a huge debt to the art of sampling. These are the most used tracks in the business, spanning a massive array of well-known songs. This fairly ...