Sampling has quietly reshaped music over the past five decades. A snare hit here, a vocal yelp there, maybe a drum loop that becomes the foundation for an entirely new genre. It’s wild how a forgotten ...

Here below, we wanted to highlight three songs from back in the day that found themselves in newer, more modern tracks.

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 ...

The sassy singing, rhythms and basslines of Tom Tom Club’s most pivotal piece of music, "Genius of Love" was a crossover smash that hit the disco, soul and pop charts in 1981. The song later became ...

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 ...

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 ...