New Hip Hop Sound Familiar? Find out where you may have already heard these beats!

In a blurred drunken stupor, a Kanye West stumbles through a night club making awkward conversation with everyone within vomiting distance. I’d say the real miracle was his ability to focus long enough to make whoopee with a supermodel for 20 seconds.

Whether it’s art, technology or music, new creations are spawned by creatively reassembling existing ideas. In rap, producers can sample by taking snippets of a sound recording or old song and reusing them as an instrument in a new song.

Here’s a quick list of some of my favorite rap songs that sample various R&B works.
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Rap samples:
Janet Jackson – Come Back to Me & Plies – Bust It Baby Part 2
Supertramp- Crime of the Century & Fabolous – Breathe
Marvin Gaye- Come Live with me Angel & G-Unit I Wanna Get to Know You
Keni Burke- Risin’ to the Top &LL Cool J – Paradise / Pete Rock & CL Smooth – Take You There