"The most highly sampled bands and the good, bad and ugly tunes that resulted." People have been 'inspired' by other people's music ever since human beings first started making beats by bashing skulls ...

“One thing’s for sure – the next LP is going to be very different,” John Lennon said to NME journalist Chris Hutchins in 1966 about what would turn into the album Revolver. And while the band hadn't ...

Eminem is making a comeback, and we can’t forget all of the memorable songs from his heyday that made him one of the most well-known rappers in history. The love his early works get is warranted, but ...

To celebrate the art of sampling, here, thanks to WhoSampled.com, are 10 of the most sampled (and perhaps some of the most important) tracks in music. This fairly obscure track from 1969 has, at the ...

WhoSampled, based on the popular website of the same name, helps you connect the musical present to the past by displaying the songs that are used as parts of other songs. You can search for samples ...

Today, Paul Simon is considered one of the best and most influential songwriters of the 20th century and beyond. With songs to his credit like “Mrs. Robinson,” “Diamonds on the Souls of Her Shoes” and ...

Fans know that when a new Beyoncé, Kanye or Diplo track drops, it will likely contain a musical sample — an instrumental or vocal nugget from a song of yesteryear. That nugget will be rearranged, ...

Madlib, DJ Premier, Beyoncé, Calvin Harris – they all owe a huge debt to the art of sampling. These are the most used tracks in the business, spanning a massive array of well-known songs. To celebrate ...

Samples continue to be a huge part of our current music culture. Some of the biggest artists in the world have used them to create incredible hit records that have gone on to become classics in their ...