Click to read moreWhat defines a dope track? For many of us Guru was on point, it is the voice. For some, itגs the beats and in this case itגs mostly the sample being used. Itגs a topic that usually gets overlooked but when you look back at many of the crowd favorites of yesteryear youגll notice how prevalent this really was in the 90s. If you sampled anything off Illmatic, ATCQ or Rakim you pretty much had a sure-fire hit on your hands.
This is not to say you canגt have a really dope track with an equally dope sample, גTake It In Bloodג or גIגm Illג are testaments to that, but with the death of vinyl, indie labels, non-existent budgets and a surge in sampling lawsuits youגre likely not going to hear many new tracks featuring these invigorating samples. That is, unless youגre sampling your own work, see DJ Premier.
We wish more rappers sided more with Jay-Z on this oneג¦
So yeah I sampled your voice, you was usin it wrong
You made it a hot line, I made it a hot song
But they donגt. So here are some examples where itגs mostly the samplesג¦
http://www.thetroyblog.com/2011/01/27/i ... he-sample/