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This James Brown song's drum break was extensively sampled, particularly in early hip-hop, and the drummer, Clyde Stubblefield, never received any royalties, despite thousands of uses.
If we want to start out with trying to explain to people what a sample is, and most people know this.
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Episode: Selects: How Music Sampling Works
This James Brown song's drum break was extensively sampled, particularly in early hip-hop, and the drummer, Clyde Stubblefield, never received any royalties, despite thousands of uses.
If we want to start out with trying to explain to people what a sample is, and most people know this.
There are no further places to look than James Brown's 1970 song, Funky Drummer.
That's Funky Drummer.
James Brown has been sampled, and this is not just that song, but a lot of it comes from Funky Drummer, 2,729 times.
You can make a case that Funky Drummer provided the basis for hip hop, like all early hip hop songs, especially in like the mid to late eighties, all use that drum break, right?
