Hip-Hop Samples

Knowing which record a beat came from is trivia. Hearing it is different. Every entry puts the original recording and the tracks built on it on one page as loops, so you can flip between them until your ear catches the match.

Slow either side down or speed it up to line the two up. That is usually what the producer did.

Jazz-funk / Hip-hop6 flips

Nautilus

Bob James · 1974

Six seconds of a 1974 jazz-funk record became one of the most sampled pieces of music ever made. Here it is, and here are the records built on top of it.

Jazz / Hip-hop1 flip

I Love Music

Ahmad Jamal · 1970

Pete Rock lifted a few seconds of Ahmad Jamal’s piano — nearly five minutes into a 1970 jazz recording — and built the whole of Illmatic’s best-known beat on top of it.