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Often "samples" consist of one part of a song used in another, for instance the use of the drum introduction from Led Zeppelin's " When the Levee Breaks" in songs by the Beastie Boys, Mike Oldfield and Erasure, and the guitar riffs from Foreigner's "Hot Blooded" in Tone-LocTone-Loc is an American rapper and actor. His tracks "Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina" were immensely succesful in fact, "Wild Thing", which was co-written by Young MC, was the first top ten hit for a black rapper according to allmusic. Both his albums's "Funky Cold Medina". "Samples" in this sense occur often in hip hopHip hop is a cultural movement that began amongst urban , African American & Puerto Rican youth in New York and has since spread around the world. The four main elements of hip-hop are MCing, DJing, graffiti art, and breakdancing. Some consider beatboxing and R&B, but are becoming more common in other music, as well.
Though musique concrète composers utilized similar methods as early as the 1940's, modern sampling probably dates back to the 1960sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Years: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around when JamaicaThis article is about the country. For others uses, see Jamaica (disambiguation). Jamaica is a country in the Caribbean Sea, located south of Cuba and to the west of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated. Jamaica ( In Detail)n DJs developed dub. These DJs combined instrumental reggae recordings with other albums into single works. Frequently, they would rap over the music, singing unrehearsed lyrics. These early practices made their way to America in the early 1970s. With the assistance of Jamaican-born DJ Kool Herc, who moved to the Bronx, dub, a buoyant predecessor to hip-hop, fashioned latter-day DJing and sampling techniques. Initially, DJs did not have the technological comfort of samplers.
By the late 1970s, the stylings of Herc spread from the West Bronx all over New York City. Like any musical style, dub became modified to its surroundings. Instead of reggae, disco and funk were mixed together. New Yorkers were improvising their own variety of poetry and dub, which was soon christened " rap".
Sampling made its real breakthrough at the end of the 1970s when The Sugarhill Gang took portions of Chic's "Good Times" and formed them as the basis for " Rapper's Delight", considered by some to be the first real rap hit single. It was also the first to be hit with legal difficulties, as Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers, the composers of "Good Times", were not credited on the disc.
"My Life In The Bush of Ghosts", a 1981 album by Brian Eno and David Byrne made extensive use of vocal samples, and is often cited as an important recording.
Near the mid- 1980s, rap music was nearing a mainstream, commercial breakthrough, and samplers were very low-priced. It was at this time that sampling finally became mainstream.