Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Dani walks Nilay through two episodes of Future of Music season 2 — one about how music sampling has changed the ...

The practice of music sampling, which is the integration of pre-recorded sounds into new musical gestures, experienced a golden, unregulated age in the late 1980s that is almost unimaginable today.

Frank Dukes has been “having a moment” for the past five years, and it’s showing no signs of stopping. He’s still your favourite artist’s favourite producer. Dukes, whose real name is Adam Feeney, is ...

A-Trak is reflecting on the evolution of the art of sampling. In a Twitter thread over the weekend, the producer/DJ/all-around industry titan—whose extensive ...

Joanna Demers, assistant professor of music history and literature, University of Southern California Is the creative appropriation of previously recorded music theft? Or is that act, better known as ...

Saweetie released her new single “Tap In,” which samples rapper Too Short’s 2007 hit “Blow The Whistle.” Prior to “Tap In,” Saweetie rose to popularity with other hit singles that were also sampled ...

When artists sample music, are they stealing or merely being creative and using the work in a new way? Before diving into my research on the art of sampling music, I’ll admit I was the person on the ...

"Trap and drill music sampling the old school classics sucks. I have tried to listen to akina Ice Spice and some new Gen Z music with some 90s samples, but I just can't. Lots of bass and auto-tune and ...

Lizzo has slammed laws against sampling music, describing them as "racist". The Truth Hurts singer called out legislators for "policing Black art" in an interview with YouTube series Million Dollaz ...