Exactly. Y'all sample on a daily basis and no one bats an eye. We sample and some how that's a problem. Sampling is and will always be a part of hip hop and is art. There's clear steals, and there's what I do. Check out my EP I just posted. Mostly sampled melodies with my own drum patterns and individual pads and synths added. I put lots of work into manually noting drum patterns, layering sounds, and mixing
for me a main purpose of sampling is shock, for example, someone could rap on a drill beat that samples an anime opening and everyone would go "no way he actually sampled that" or it could also be because the song is themed around the franchise its sampling
Just because a sample is a straight loop doesn't mean it's lazy. It might take a producer days to find that right loop, and it might not need extra shit on top of it. If it doesn't need extra shit, you shouldn't add it just to be 'not lazy' that makes the music worse. A prime example of this method done well is madlib. Listen to meat grinder. One of the best beats ever and it's literally just a fantastic loop he found.
I think doing that a few times on a tape is cool but some producers whole discog is 4-8 bar barely edited loops. I listen to sample-based music almost exclusively, im not a hater, but im like broo you didnt get the urge to chop that shit up? At the very least pitch it? Not to name names but I watched a sample breakdown comp about Dre and most (if not all) of his hits are done this way. I was surprised considering he was always reffered to as a godly beatmaker. Sample picker? Yes. Im not saying its lazy, but is it really "making it your own" just by looping n rapping on it? Its all valid though, of course. Thanks for reading my irrelevant internet opinion.
Sampling is definitely still an art 🔥 and can be dope to hear songs in a different way than you are used to... like that new Jack Harlow song can't believe nobody big hadn't thought to sample Fergie like that before lol
what pisses me off is when the sampled artist isnt credited, which is pretty much always. I dont think ill ever stop thinking that sampling is shitty because even just making a mediocre instrumental takes a lot of practice, time, and creativity on behalf of the artist. Just because youve spliced up and rearranged somebody's hard work doesnt mean its original or mean its right not to credit them. Ive seen a lot of people say that those who hate on sampling just dont understand how hard it is to reconfigure and switch up somebodys beat but you wanna know who had to work harder for that beat? the person who made the damn thing to begin with. Just because you worked hard at stealing doesnt mean its not stealing.
@@DonnyKirkMusicthat’s such a specific thing and it’s only one guy you named. that more or less means they got lazy if anything. I think it’s lazy cause it takes the live music out of the question and ik so many good musicians online who could definitely add to alot of artist who would rather sample. While sampling can sound beautiful I still think fundamentally it’s lazy.
Sampling is a DJ art form, it is not laziness. The reason many artists do not give sample credits is because they're trying to avoid the high cost of getting the samples cleared Artists benefit from DJs playing their music, and few would complain about DJs getting paid to play their music, therefore, they shouldn't complain when their music is sampled-it's another way of promoting their music. Many Old School artists', particularly James Brown, careers would have died if it wasn't for hip hop sampling their music and extending their careers.
@bakhembrutalknowledge it is true that sampling can help with exposure, but those cases are few and far between. Even in cases like Dido’s where the sampling gave huge exposure, it was only because they were credited and helped in the songs making (Stan by Eminem). Heres an example for you: what is the part of Kanye’s i wonder that everybody remembers? Is it Kanyes beat and bars or is it Labi Siffres singing? And how many people do you think know that it was Labi Siffre’s “My Song” to begin with? I stand by my point that just because you worked hard at stealing doesn’t mean its not stealing.
@@PersnapsPartDeux Is it stealing when the DJ plays an artist's song at an event? What do you think made the song 'Rappers Delight by the Sugarhill Gang so popular? Why do you think James Brown was able to tour up until the time he passed? Why do you think George Clinton is still touring to this day?
I really miss collage-based hip hop (or plunderphonic albums in general) where you take a bunch of samples from different sources to make one track instead of flipping a sample from one source. Flipping a sample alot of the time felt something was missing or incomplete. At some point, copyright law has to be revised to allow sampling in some form; especially since "Fear of a Black Planet" and "3 Feet High and Rising" was archived into the Library of Congress. Two heavily sampled collage-based albums, and they just added "The Low End Theory" and "Enter the 36 Chambers". They've recognized these albums as culturally, historically, and/or aesthetically significant and it wouldn't have been possible without sampling and hip hop's production techniques.
I mean tracklib is the biggest step in the right direction letting artists sample songs easily, legally and relatively cheaply. But I hear what your saying. One crazy fact is that avalanches Plunderphonic album 'since I left you' which has thousands of samples on it, has never had a single copyright strike on it. That always seemed super awesome to me
@@prodstitchface No he wasnt thats not plunderphonic DOOM barely did anything to his samples, he just looped them. something like donuts or endtroducing? is plunderphonics
When u chop it & do your own thing with it it's you own creativity. Even when looping u dress the beat with own instruments. Plus all genres do covers, it was only a problem when hip hop did it.
It's not. If you use a sample for a sound effect, fine, but that's it. If you like the strings from a song, use MIDI strings to recreate it. Art takes time. Months have to be spent on one song. It takes time.
@@myrealnameisharry49Yes, sampling really is an art form whether you like it or not. You can make sampling as technical as you want or keep it simple and add an element to your beat that just fits perfectly well. Also if I like a certain string section, I’m gonna try to clear the sample and use it before I try to recreate it, you have the process backwards lol. One song on average does not take months to make lol wtf
I think one of the sickest non-hip-hop sample based songs is Sleep Dealer by Oneohtrix Point Never. He samples an old wriglys gum commercial in a way youd never expect. I really recommend checking it out and then watching the sample breakdown video. Nice video by the way!🍄
This is awesome man. I just started making beats and I'm trying to learn the art of sampling. Hopefully I get better than just the basic stuff I'm doing now. And great Lil Peep video too. You should do a Bones/TeamSesh video one day.
I mean it kinda makes sense that covering a song is legal because then the song writing royalties go directly to the original artist. So it makes sense that people wouldn't have an issue with that and would have an issue with sampling, where it doesn't automatically go to the original artist.
But I do think they shouldn't need permission to sample. That's dumb. So long as it isn't being used in a way the original artist cometely disagrees with eg some song about peace being used to support music with hate speech. They should just get a set cut and that's the end of it.
I'm back from the other video-and it's perfect that you brought up Vanilla Ice here! what he did is called an interpolation-not a direct sample in the way you (perfectly) demonstrated in this vid, but rather, *singing or otherwise performing a melody/rhythm from another song on your own.* remember when Rihanna lifted MJ's "ma-ma-say-ma-ma-sas" from Wanna Be Startin' Somethin on Don't Stop The Music? or (on a much more recent & cornier note 😆) when Taylor Swift's "ooh, look what you made me do, look what you made me do" had the same cadence as "I'm, too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt"? those are both interpolations. the difference between the two is slight (slight enough that even the best 😉 can mix them up), but it makes for fascinating subject matter. would be interested to see you do a deeper dive-and hopefully my explanation isn't confusing. I'm sure there are others online who have differentiated them more clearly. great vid man!
yo dope vids. I produced star shopping (which was sampled) and some other songs by lil peep. I've gotten alot of hate because i used to sample. I just dont see how people cant see the amazing impact it has had/has on the music. and again i just wanted to say keep up the amazing vids brother
Sampling is a DJ art form, it is not laziness. The reason many artists do not give sample credits is because they're trying to avoid the high cost of getting the samples cleared. Artists benefit from DJs playing their music, and few would complain about DJs getting paid to play their music, therefore, they shouldn't complain when their music is sampled-it's another way of promoting their music. Many Old School artists', particularly James Brown, careers would have died if it wasn't for hip hop sampling their music and extending their careers.
For longest white artists have been sampling black artists whole acts....blacks couldn't even sing their own songs on the radio at first....couldn't even be shown on the album cover...soooo
Sampling is an art, and its also easy button non-musician stealing. It can be both. Musician play instruments from scratch with their hands and fingers. Beat producers sample and re-arrange premade music with mostly one finger. Just how it is. BOth are ok cuz the listening audiences neither knows nor cares these days. Just don't use something that an estate still controls or court will be your new hangout.
Instead of sampling....try writing your own songs. I know its hard but at least you created something that is YOURS and not literally copying someone else's work. Being inspired by someone and showing your appreciation by doing a cover that is paying the original musician is NOT the same thing. But when you literally cut a significant portion of someone else's music and calling it your own, is just flat out posing. So try, really try, to create your own music instead of "sampling" someone else's hard work.
@@g0stn0te I actually do. I put out my own album in my home studio and I played all my own instruments. Nothing is harder than creating your own original music. But since you hacks can’t even be original, you steal like the thieves you are and claim it as your own. The worst type of liar is the hip hop sampler. I’d rather die being an unknown original than a famous sampler thief.
@@projectmonk9673 hip hop started because of sampling. Its the mother of hip hop. Grabbing an old record and altering it to make something new is not lazy 💀 Where would Elvis Presley be without his song covers of black artists or Chuck Berry? Where would Berry be without Robert Johnson? Musicians share art and copy each other ALL the time. Listen to some classical music and TELL me they didn't borrow some parts from other songs. Sampling is one of the greatest musical art forms of all time. You can either embrace it, or miss out on some of the best songs hip hop has to offer
@@sxmmit It is lazy….it means you have no creativity. Painters have inspiration from other painters but eventually they have to create from their own brush. Not somebody else’s.
Sampling is a tool and is not inherently lazy. Even then, good music =/= amount of effort and more if it sounds good. They can of course correlated heavily depending on genre/subgenres.
It's not lazy it's part of hip-hop hip-hop without samples doesn't sound authentic..you have to remember there's the sample but theres other stuff getting played onto like strings basslines pianos ect so layering samples what's a skill set I love sampling
Flipping just sounds like stealing, but if you’re gonna sample just pay to clear it, unlike vanilla ice cause then it’s just stealing. I prefer to sample over create my own Melodie’s.
For those who speak ILL of sampling they simply cant sample..As a key player an grammy and emmy nominated producer straight off hip hop sample based beats. Its harder for me to chop samples up figure out a way to play them like notes vs my own chord creations..Don't knock what u can't do..
when i was editing this i realized editing is basically sampling in a sense so im team sampling
Lol never thought of it that way. Super true🤣
Exactly. Y'all sample on a daily basis and no one bats an eye. We sample and some how that's a problem. Sampling is and will always be a part of hip hop and is art. There's clear steals, and there's what I do. Check out my EP I just posted. Mostly sampled melodies with my own drum patterns and individual pads and synths added. I put lots of work into manually noting drum patterns, layering sounds, and mixing
Very true.
Your videos are extremely well-structured and well-edited, you will inevitably blow up very soon ballz 🔥
for me a main purpose of sampling is shock, for example, someone could rap on a drill beat that samples an anime opening and everyone would go "no way he actually sampled that" or it could also be because the song is themed around the franchise its sampling
Just because a sample is a straight loop doesn't mean it's lazy. It might take a producer days to find that right loop, and it might not need extra shit on top of it. If it doesn't need extra shit, you shouldn't add it just to be 'not lazy' that makes the music worse. A prime example of this method done well is madlib. Listen to meat grinder. One of the best beats ever and it's literally just a fantastic loop he found.
People just need to let us art. Andy Warhol knows.
I think doing that a few times on a tape is cool but some producers whole discog is 4-8 bar barely edited loops. I listen to sample-based music almost exclusively, im not a hater, but im like broo you didnt get the urge to chop that shit up? At the very least pitch it? Not to name names but I watched a sample breakdown comp about Dre and most (if not all) of his hits are done this way. I was surprised considering he was always reffered to as a godly beatmaker. Sample picker? Yes. Im not saying its lazy, but is it really "making it your own" just by looping n rapping on it? Its all valid though, of course.
Thanks for reading my irrelevant internet opinion.
It took me weeks to write the lyrics for a Suno song, I'm sooooooo talented 🙄
When done right sampling is extremely beautiful ❤️🤝
Sampling is definitely still an art 🔥 and can be dope to hear songs in a different way than you are used to... like that new Jack Harlow song can't believe nobody big hadn't thought to sample Fergie like that before lol
ngl im not a huge fan of that sample haha but we will let it slide
to me the song ressembles kanye's sample of Daft Punk in Stronger too much to be considered original
@@mattyballz lowkey L. that sample was so clean i didn’t even realize it was a fergie one at first.
@@maximednx U right bro thats one thats fire but is not original
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what pisses me off is when the sampled artist isnt credited, which is pretty much always. I dont think ill ever stop thinking that sampling is shitty because even just making a mediocre instrumental takes a lot of practice, time, and creativity on behalf of the artist. Just because youve spliced up and rearranged somebody's hard work doesnt mean its original or mean its right not to credit them. Ive seen a lot of people say that those who hate on sampling just dont understand how hard it is to reconfigure and switch up somebodys beat but you wanna know who had to work harder for that beat? the person who made the damn thing to begin with. Just because you worked hard at stealing doesnt mean its not stealing.
@@DonnyKirkMusicthat’s such a specific thing and it’s only one guy you named. that more or less means they got lazy if anything. I think it’s lazy cause it takes the live music out of the question and ik so many good musicians online who could definitely add to alot of artist who would rather sample. While sampling can sound beautiful I still think fundamentally it’s lazy.
Sampling is a DJ art form, it is not laziness.
The reason many artists do not give sample credits is because they're trying to avoid the high cost of getting the samples cleared
Artists benefit from DJs playing their music, and few would complain about DJs getting paid to play their music, therefore, they shouldn't complain when their music is sampled-it's another way of promoting their music.
Many Old School artists', particularly James Brown, careers would have died if it wasn't for hip hop sampling their music and extending their careers.
@bakhembrutalknowledge it is true that sampling can help with exposure, but those cases are few and far between. Even in cases like Dido’s where the sampling gave huge exposure, it was only because they were credited and helped in the songs making (Stan by Eminem).
Heres an example for you: what is the part of Kanye’s i wonder that everybody remembers? Is it Kanyes beat and bars or is it Labi Siffres singing? And how many people do you think know that it was Labi Siffre’s “My Song” to begin with?
I stand by my point that just because you worked hard at stealing doesn’t mean its not stealing.
@@PersnapsPartDeux
Is it stealing when the DJ plays an artist's song at an event?
What do you think made the song 'Rappers Delight by the Sugarhill Gang so popular?
Why do you think James Brown was able to tour up until the time he passed?
Why do you think George Clinton is still touring to this day?
@@PersnapsPartDeux
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damn this is the first time in a while ive sat through a whole video from a new youtuber, good video
thank you
I really miss collage-based hip hop (or plunderphonic albums in general) where you take a bunch of samples from different sources to make one track instead of flipping a sample from one source. Flipping a sample alot of the time felt something was missing or incomplete. At some point, copyright law has to be revised to allow sampling in some form; especially since "Fear of a Black Planet" and "3 Feet High and Rising" was archived into the Library of Congress. Two heavily sampled collage-based albums, and they just added "The Low End Theory" and "Enter the 36 Chambers". They've recognized these albums as culturally, historically, and/or aesthetically significant and it wouldn't have been possible without sampling and hip hop's production techniques.
I mean tracklib is the biggest step in the right direction letting artists sample songs easily, legally and relatively cheaply. But I hear what your saying. One crazy fact is that avalanches Plunderphonic album 'since I left you' which has thousands of samples on it, has never had a single copyright strike on it. That always seemed super awesome to me
DOOM was nuts at that bruh fr
@@prodstitchface No he wasnt thats not plunderphonic DOOM barely did anything to his samples, he just looped them. something like donuts or endtroducing? is plunderphonics
keep grinding bro youre gonna be big on this platform
Wake up babe! A new mattyballz video just dropped!
When u chop it & do your own thing with it it's you own creativity. Even when looping u dress the beat with own instruments. Plus all genres do covers, it was only a problem when hip hop did it.
sampling is literally art
It's not. If you use a sample for a sound effect, fine, but that's it. If you like the strings from a song, use MIDI strings to recreate it. Art takes time. Months have to be spent on one song. It takes time.
@@myrealnameisharry49Yes, sampling really is an art form whether you like it or not. You can make sampling as technical as you want or keep it simple and add an element to your beat that just fits perfectly well. Also if I like a certain string section, I’m gonna try to clear the sample and use it before I try to recreate it, you have the process backwards lol. One song on average does not take months to make lol wtf
@@stwish3910 You should be crafting complex symphonies because that's real music and real dedication to what you apparently love.
I think one of the sickest non-hip-hop sample based songs is Sleep Dealer by Oneohtrix Point Never. He samples an old wriglys gum commercial in a way youd never expect. I really recommend checking it out and then watching the sample breakdown video.
Nice video by the way!🍄
as a producer and artist sampling saves the day
Amazing video man
No mention of The Avalanches? 😕 the fact their first album was even released is a statement in itself… musically it’s irreplaceable
This is awesome man. I just started making beats and I'm trying to learn the art of sampling. Hopefully I get better than just the basic stuff I'm doing now. And great Lil Peep video too. You should do a Bones/TeamSesh video one day.
mr. ballz the most consistent
This vid is fire!
I mean it kinda makes sense that covering a song is legal because then the song writing royalties go directly to the original artist. So it makes sense that people wouldn't have an issue with that and would have an issue with sampling, where it doesn't automatically go to the original artist.
But I do think they shouldn't need permission to sample. That's dumb. So long as it isn't being used in a way the original artist cometely disagrees with eg some song about peace being used to support music with hate speech. They should just get a set cut and that's the end of it.
You don't produce
people who say this dont produce or understand music even noise music artists had sample other noise music artists
Digging the crates talks about how James browns funky drummer was maybe produced with the intention of it later being sampled. It’s a good vid too
Can you make a video about the history of drill music from Chicago drill to uk drill to ny drill
quite possibly
I'm back from the other video-and it's perfect that you brought up Vanilla Ice here! what he did is called an interpolation-not a direct sample in the way you (perfectly) demonstrated in this vid, but rather, *singing or otherwise performing a melody/rhythm from another song on your own.* remember when Rihanna lifted MJ's "ma-ma-say-ma-ma-sas" from Wanna Be Startin' Somethin on Don't Stop The Music? or (on a much more recent & cornier note 😆) when Taylor Swift's "ooh, look what you made me do, look what you made me do" had the same cadence as "I'm, too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt"? those are both interpolations. the difference between the two is slight (slight enough that even the best 😉 can mix them up), but it makes for fascinating subject matter. would be interested to see you do a deeper dive-and hopefully my explanation isn't confusing. I'm sure there are others online who have differentiated them more clearly. great vid man!
Great video essay.
Can’t wait to blow up dog keep creating more videos 💫
very interestinggg cool vids and history
you're gonna have a mill soon
I remember when hip-hop was simple back in the day and not 99% a bassy 808 beat-type shit!
This video is great
Love the vids cuh
yo dope vids. I produced star shopping (which was sampled) and some other songs by lil peep. I've gotten alot of hate because i used to sample. I just dont see how people cant see the amazing impact it has had/has on the music. and again i just wanted to say keep up the amazing vids brother
thanks! ur a legend bro
Damn you passed 10k I didn't even notice
Even though I get flack at times for sampling. I’ll never stop doing it. Let people hate. It’s an art just like all other forms of art 🖼
Some people don’t see the bigger picture, they just see as it stealing.
@@jennav2063 and they most likely don't produce or understand hip hop in any capacity
If you wanna check out an amazing artist who samples check out Akira Yamaoka. He did the music for the Silent Hill video games.
If you understand Jamaican sound system culture, you understand sampling.
BRO THE JOJO REFERENCE IS KILLING ME. LMAO
thank u i don’t think anyone noticed it
@@mattyballz based.
Sampling is a DJ art form, it is not laziness.
The reason many artists do not give sample credits is because they're trying to avoid the high cost of getting the samples cleared.
Artists benefit from DJs playing their music, and few would complain about DJs getting paid to play their music, therefore, they shouldn't complain when their music is sampled-it's another way of promoting their music.
Many Old School artists', particularly James Brown, careers would have died if it wasn't for hip hop sampling their music and extending their careers.
"Let me just steal your car, I can't afford to buy one myself so it's ok to just take yours"
I'm fine with sampling but this is a terrible argument
MF DOOM was amazing at sampling
fye video
For longest white artists have been sampling black artists whole acts....blacks couldn't even sing their own songs on the radio at first....couldn't even be shown on the album cover...soooo
Excellent point.
Yes.
Cap.
You know nothing about music.
Sampling is an art, and its also easy button non-musician stealing. It can be both. Musician play instruments from scratch with their hands and fingers. Beat producers sample and re-arrange premade music with mostly one finger. Just how it is. BOth are ok cuz the listening audiences neither knows nor cares these days. Just don't use something that an estate still controls or court will be your new hangout.
DJ Kool Herc wasnt "one of the first hip-hop Dj's" .. He WAS the first hip-hop Dj
Instead of sampling....try writing your own songs. I know its hard but at least you created something that is YOURS and not literally copying someone else's work.
Being inspired by someone and showing your appreciation by doing a cover that is paying the original musician is NOT the same thing. But when you literally cut a significant portion of someone else's music and calling it your own, is just flat out posing.
So try, really try, to create your own music instead of "sampling" someone else's hard work.
You don't produce
@@g0stn0te I actually do. I put out my own album in my home studio and I played all my own instruments. Nothing is harder than creating your own original music.
But since you hacks can’t even be original, you steal like the thieves you are and claim it as your own.
The worst type of liar is the hip hop sampler.
I’d rather die being an unknown original than a famous sampler thief.
Yes, it is so weird that people who dont play instruments believe its impossible😂 And for some reason, they think producers are just music samplers.
@@projectmonk9673 hip hop started because of sampling. Its the mother of hip hop.
Grabbing an old record and altering it to make something new is not lazy 💀
Where would Elvis Presley be without his song covers of black artists or Chuck Berry? Where would Berry be without Robert Johnson?
Musicians share art and copy each other ALL the time. Listen to some classical music and TELL me they didn't borrow some parts from other songs.
Sampling is one of the greatest musical art forms of all time. You can either embrace it, or miss out on some of the best songs hip hop has to offer
@@sxmmit It is lazy….it means you have no creativity. Painters have inspiration from other painters but eventually they have to create from their own brush. Not somebody else’s.
Sampling is a tool and is not inherently lazy. Even then, good music =/= amount of effort and more if it sounds good. They can of course correlated heavily depending on genre/subgenres.
I never knew people thought samples were bad thing always thought it was impressive good video🙌
Yes
You know nothing about production 🤷♂️
It's not lazy it's part of hip-hop hip-hop without samples doesn't sound authentic..you have to remember there's the sample but theres other stuff getting played onto like strings basslines pianos ect so layering samples what's a skill set I love sampling
7:56 you can express yourself with lyrics too you dont have to change the sample to express yourself, thats lame asf
you heard ty fontane said that either jews or gay people are controlling the music video
Sampling is a concent thing in copyright. It sayd if you can use them or not so if you can its not stealing it. And sampling is most creative
You should react to spinna by kurtains
What’s up Broski 🦋..
If people like the track why not
i hate cornrows
Who made under pressure lol. These videos kill me. Do your research.
Cleaning samples is lazy enough.
Sampling is most creatative
Flipping just sounds like stealing, but if you’re gonna sample just pay to clear it, unlike vanilla ice cause then it’s just stealing. I prefer to sample over create my own Melodie’s.
For those who speak ILL of sampling they simply cant sample..As a key player an grammy and emmy nominated producer straight off hip hop sample based beats. Its harder for me to chop samples up figure out a way to play them like notes vs my own chord creations..Don't knock what u can't do..
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