Sampling has always been a staple within hip-hop, and it's for a good reason.

And I feel like just beyond the music and how good it sounds, it's actually incredible to be able to start going into the samples and understand the music behind certain productions or certain interpolations to be able to educate yourself on music history.

So, for example, in today's episode, Lou and I brought in a couple of iconic songs from the genre,

and we're going to be diving deep into the actual samples behind them and giving you guys the

explanation on why they use them or, you know, what they actually sound like, playing some of them, and more.

So, guys, in the Q&A, let me know something.

What is the greatest hip-hop sample of all time in your opinion? It could be an interpolation.

It could be something to do with the production, whether it's, let's say vocals, let's say a

guitar riff, drums, whatever the case may be.

Let me know in the Q&A.

But Lou, how did you formulate this list?

Because obviously, you could go through Kanye West's catalog and find all kinds of

sample flips, but I brought no Kanye today. I didn't want to bring any connie. I brought no Kanye today because I figured you'd probably bring in Kanye and like

how many times you want me to talk about like an Otis Redding sample, for example. You know,

I've covered that on the podcast. What's interesting is I didn't bring in any Kanye songs,

but I bought I brought in like Kanye produced songs. So that's kind of where I went with it. But yeah, in terms of how I treated this, I mean,

I love the art of sampling. I feel like the idea of reinventing an old aesthetic, an old sound,

an old instrument and recreating it for a newer generation is beautiful. I think it's a way to

keep that older music alive and to allow it to thrive for years to come.

So, well, example, you've had like, let's say interviews back then.

I'm not sure if you ever saw that Prince interview where you was saying that, oh, well, everything sampled and, you know, there's no originality.

So they kind of counter that, I agree with you where it's, you're educating people on maybe where sounds are originally from and also paying homage to them.

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