I feel like Beyonce's Renaissance is a pinnacle of modern sampling. The samples are recognizable, but interpolated and interwoven so seamlessly that it just works.
@@Justanothermusicnerdxo but she is saying that this isn’t what modern sampling is…the songs are interpolated. Alot of the songs I couldn’t even figure out what was being sampled. Modern sampling doesn’t change much and its easier to associate with the original song and hence get the nostalgia. The way beyonce sampled songs for her album is very different which is what the original comment is explaining, so I’m not sure how you made the opposite conclusion.
It ultimately depends on how samples are used. If you're not using it in a way that's creative, meaningful & respectful to the original artist, then yes, it's lazy. Hell, not only is it lazy, it's wrong.
one of my favorite artists who is known to sample a lot is mariah carey, she chooses wisely when sampling and overall she’s so creative. a lot of people don’t know fantasy is also a sample.
What the hell I had no idea that was even a sample!!! She did an amazing job, literally just kept the beat and made honestly better lyrics for the type of beat
Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love 😍 it’s a fun, wacky song so Mariah def took it to another pop level tho both songs stand on their own in their own genres!
For some reason I always forget that technically Crazy in Love is a sample. It’s funny both Destiny Child’s first solo #1 (Dilemma and CIL) included samples/ interpolations.
I love sampling. I love learning how creative artist can be taking sounds & rearranging them creating something new, honestly it’s so inspiring. Some of favs include Kendrick’s Loyalty & Duckworth, with Loyalty sampling Bruno’s 24k Magic; recently discovered Drake’s use of Mountains by Charlotte Day Wilson in Fair Trade. Beyoncé’s Don’t Hurt Yourself samples Led Zeppelin, and Homecoming’s transition music uses a bunch of incredible of samples from The Wiz, Juvenile, & The Jackson 5
@@musicstan6362I don’t think any of these artists are more know for sampling than for their own work. I think it’s just well known that they use samples
Bronx drill music is sampling pop songs as well, they call it sample drill.. the drill rapper yungeen ace sampled a thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton. for his song who i smoke which she actually cleared.
@@musicstan6362 Hmmm I personally think so, cause you still ARE creating something new; new verses, maybe a different speed, a standout line/phrase. These are all new things that come out of the use of the sample. And honestly it can be challenging to create something brand spanking new. An argument can also be made that the industry knows nostalgia sells, so they push sampling cause it’s more beneficial financially? Or if I’m an artist that primarily makes club songs, who cares if I’m sampling, as long as everybody shaking ass lol. But it’s still early in Saweetie’s career, so who knows what might change in the future
I have mixed feelings about sampling... I think sampling is find but it depends on how you use it in your song. For example in kpop there has been a huge rise in groups sampling classic songs, but there are different categories. Red Velvet feel my rhythm, snowy by itzy and shut down by blackpink, are songs that I think use sampling to their advantage, if you take away the sample and switch it was a random violin/piano sound the song still works, and snowy is a song where the sample is used so subtly where if takes a second to know what it's sampling. Songs like nxde by gidle and after like by ive are different where the whole song relies on the sample, in nxde the whole chorus is the sample and same with after like, you change it and the song doesn't exist, i find it exciting when you can use a sample to add to the song, no depend on it. In the west you have ava max, who samples more contemporary songs however, she is someone from the beginning of her career has struggled to make a name for herself, she was always compared to someone, and the fact that her most popular songs use samples that rely so much on the original sound, is disappointing. So overall I don't think that sampling is lazy all the time i think it's lazy depending on how you use it.
I don’t think Donna Summers sample was needed for IVE it was just beneficial. The lyrical structure could be done on a lot of tempos and beats. The sample gave it more of a dramatic feel but I don’t think it makes or break the song.
@@SBBunny93 Gloria Gaynor sings I will survive, and I don’t think the sample adds anything AT ALL to the song (don’t get me wrong it’s cute) but at the same time the song also would’ve sounded empty without it. Idk how to explain it. It’s my least fave tt of theirs tho
@@SBBunny93 I get your point and I really like the song, but the chorus is literally just I will survive after the you and I part, so that's the part that I am trying to get at with sampling.
As much as i despise Kanye and his current trajectory, he truly mastered the art of sampling in producing some of my absolute favorite rnb and hip hop records
Some people cant even accept that though, they call him a thief. Like really? A thief?? If you hate all form of sampling and deem it thievery you by extension also hate music
I love sampling and pretty much every song today has been sampled or the composition has been used . But I do think some artist over do it out of laziness just for a hit. Like Saweetie for example, all her actually hit songs are sampled . It becomes redundant
This is AMAZING work and also helps me realize how much I value artists who sample well - West, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Kendrick, that's really the connection. Collaborating (key word) with a past artist's work in the present shows big 🧠 energy, it's an added level of creativity that I LOVE. It's just so much fuller than a song that doesn't sample; totally subjective, I recognize, but being able to engage with material is important to me, and those extra levels keep me relistening. And THEN I relisten to the sample material and it's even more joy.
Nowadays I’ve noticed that a lot of producers are no longer creative with sampling. Although I’m not a fan of Kanye’s atm he is very good at sampling especially in the early to mid 2000
28:00 YES! The music library in my head is extensivvveeee because of this, and I'm grateful because that's the coolest part of music: the referential work and collaboration, and the recognition of past musical genius. Makes it all timeless and forever interesting
I love some samples, just not the remakes. In the 90s, Mary J. Blige was the queen of remakes and samples because she made samples like Rose Royce and The Stylistics.
I’m shocked you didn’t mention more on mariaaaaah!! Like fantasy with the genius of love sample but Mariah actually samples quite frequently and has from the beginning. She has a knack for completely remixing the song in her own way but sampling major segments from her fav Hip hop beats. Several of her big hits and album cutsssssss But as always another amazing video hunnnyyy
it's crazy how groups like PM Dawn used to get a lot of shit for heavy use of samples, but it was super creative and tbh ahead of the curve that their sample songs still sound fresh. be if Set Adrift or Patient Eyes, or them sampling movie dialogues
I think that an example of great sampling without changing the sound of the original track is "Barbie Dreams" by Nicki Minaj, it samples Biggie's Dreams (if i'm not mistaken by the name of the song) which is about having sex with relevant female artists by the time the track was released; Nicki switched the subject and aimed it at male rappers mainly, but with a lot of witty lines that may come off as disrespectful towards whom she names but it's alright because she is cool with most of those dudes, and as if she didn't deliver enough bars for months she added a beat switch to a more contemporary hip hop beat, trap beat in deed, bringing back her so longed alterego Roman and speeding up the track with a 3rd sublime verse which outrapped anything released in 2018.
Yeah, the last few seconds of 'Barbie Dreams' is one of the biggest highlights from the 'Queen' album, but I also like the outro to 'Majesty' on the record too!
Popping in as a producer: Placing a sample takes WORK lmao. It is the opposite of lazy, truthfully. Pitching and timing it correctly, placing it cohesively within a beat you’ve made takes skill and talent. The first time I tried to place a sample, I literally cried out of frustration. Taking a sample and making it original to flow with your beat takes werk. It gets a lot easier with time though.
Mad respect. I figured you’d start with Brooklyn in the 70’s, but starting with France in the 40’s is impressive. That’s some super obscure trivia. My degree is in music and that’s the only reason I knew that.
It was a interpolation of an interpolation tho. Michael Jackson Wanna be startin' somethin' wasn't original. It interpolated Soul Makossa (1974) by Cameroonian musician Manu Dibango
@@tired4250 But he wasn't credited properly tho and didn't receive royaltys from Wanna be startin' somethin' or Will Smith's Gettin' Jiggy With it. I think Rihanna had to pay because she gave credit to MJ and Dibango was pissed and took the issue legally which is understandable. People dk that it was the 1st song by an african artist that made it to the the US billboard hot 100 in 1974
One of my favourite examples of a sample is Ciara’s Body Party which samples My Boo by Ghost Town DJ. The sample is prominent but it doesn’t feel lazy or desperate.
There was a hot song in the 2000s called Addictive by Truth Hurts that Dr. Dre produced and sampled a song from a Indian composer. Unfortunately it wasn't properly cleared and the composer sued.
That's why I love certain artists like Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla Sign and Frank Ocean mixtapes because I think getting clearances are different because mixtapes are necessarily "sold". They get to really flex their creativity because of more freedom and less constraints.
One part I personally love ab sampling is when multiple artists will use the beat bc you get look at the different versions ppl will hear behind that beat. Plus I never thought that it took away from the original artist but I hear that argument too.
This is unrelated to the video, but I remember watching your first video last year and I'm proud to see far you've come in such a short span of time. Many blessings for the year ahead ✨
Your takes are so refresging, unbiased and socially conscious and you can tell the hard work and research you do to prepare for your videos. We're rooting for you sis🥰 Please don't pull an Empressive on us lmao jk 🤣🤣
@@naomi.cannibal long story short Empressive moved from music documentaries to commentary to gossip. She's heavily biased and has imaginary beefs with certain artists but what really made her flop were her pick me, and phobics comments against Lil Nas and Dwyane Wade's daughter
@@Terry_Bell Empressive still does All that, she didn't switch up at all, and the imaginary beefs? If you're talking about Cardi B, Cardi B came at her both times. And Empressive sounded very neutral when she was discussing lil Nas and Dwayne Wades situations , so I don't know where you getting the "phobia" from not unless you was hate watching with biases from the jump on her??
Sampling can be great, but I'm seeing a rise of pop songs that just sound like covers of the sampled track, just with different lyrics. Those feel lazy to the point that it seems like they're just riding on the catchiness of the original song in hopes it'll go tiktok viral, earning huge sum of money without any creative input.
Another sample that I love and has been used for decades is the James Browns ‘Payback’ record and it’s considered a classic. En vogue used this sample and it’s considered to be a classic in their catalog as well. Great video, I am praying for more originality in music in 2023!! 🎉🎵
One of my favorite "newer" samples is Big Ol' Freak by Megan Thee Stallion. I remember I was about to get out my car and heard the beat on the radio and I actually stopped to listen. I originally didn't care for the lyrics lol but the Immature/Al B Sure sample pulled me in. Still my favorite song from her.
Jay-Z "Smile" on the album 4:44 is my favorite, especially of any song sampling Stevie Wonder. Toooooooo good. And after this discourse, it's on repeat today. Just adds extra depth to both the original and what Jay-Z adds + his mom Gloria's words.
I think the problem with sampling today is like you said the lack of originality from the artists. They fail to transform the samples into their own. And also, the fact that almost every artists using samples today, do it the same way. There’s not really much variety.
Listen, Kanye knows music and not only that he understands where and how to place samples. I know how folks feel about him but that man is a genius at sampling. I get lost in his music sometimes and I'm placed back into the 50-80s in literally every genre. I HATE these newer samples, like why do you sample a song that came out in the 00's?! I don't like it lol
Sampling isn't lazy because hip hop was birthed through sampling disco in the 70s. The whole genre was Sampling from the start, so I feel these artists are just following tradition.
Its so funny cause I would’ve called First Class an egregious effort in refreshing a sample. I feel it rides off all the energy of Glamorous and adds nothing new or interesting. I feel it makes a fun song boring.
“Fantasy” Mariah Carey samples “Genius of Love” by Tom-Tom club. (First song by a female to debut #1) Also, “Rappers Delight” by Sugarhill Gang samples “Good Times” by Chic!! (First rap song to go Top 10) 🤗
Dj Khaled, Tory Lanez, Saweetie are The 3 horseman of Apocalypse involving sampling To me the perfect sample in a song is not even recognizing it at first. Nowadays i just feel like artists are just rerecording a song with the same beat
Being reminded of Hard Knock Life honestly makes me realize how important samples are. I didn’t even know about Annie when I heard that song. But samples really help people explore more artists (or in this case, other classic media) that they may have never heard of otherwise.
This is such a great video. I graduated college 10 years ago but you're totally making me feel like you're a cool professor giving a super interesting, interactive lecture. Thank you for the amazing content 🙏
@@canthinkofauser_name Yeah they both sample Genius of love from the 70s but Big Energy also does incorporate Mariah’s melody in the chorus and makes reference to Fantasy in the lyrics
Happy new year! Thanks for the great videos on your channel and looking forward to more! I feel like a bad sample can be regressive - banking on nostalgia without building anything new or interesting on top A good sample is progressive - using the past to inform the future Everyone has influences; it's about blending the old and the new to keep moving forward
I was about to say Fergalicious! Other songs that come to mind is "Beautiful Girls" by Sean Kingston and "Dilemma" by Nelly and Kelly Rowland. Also, "Tomorrow 2" has audio from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends in the beginning, which I think is wild!
We're just old enough to recognize the samples these days because they're pulling them from our childhoods. It's part of the artform that is music. It changes, it evolves, it get remixes.
Sampling is like singing a song in your own way and adding your original touch to it. So now I get it because I had a rough relationship with the idea of sampling other artists' songs, but I think you've helped me put it into perspective. Like it's keeping the work of other artists alive like I believe that making art is a collective effort and there's still some space left for originality. I guess I define originality in general by the uniqueness that each person brings to the field or industry.
One of my fav samples ever is "Late Nights an Heartbreaks" by Hannah Williams and The Affirmations used in the Jay-Z's song "4:44". Shivers all over the body.
Frank ocean’s ‘love crimes’ splices bits of Nicole Kidman’s ‘eyes wide shut’ monologue so flawlessly into itself. It’s my favorite dialogue-in-song sample.
I feel like the majority who think sampling is lazy are thinking about songs that are basically covers but act as original songs with sapling. These songs are profitable because of nostalgia and familiarity and lack any artistry and originality. What Kanye and others do by taking bits and pieces of multiple songs is pure art.
The most egregious example of this is Rihanna with Tame Impala's Same Ol' Mistakes. She literally sings a karaoke version of the song, with the exact same adlibs and everything. When I heard Tame Impala's version after hearing Rihanna's, I literally cringed.
@@lakacianiybizi3573 Is that even a sample? I think it's a cover. I was surprised when I heard her version. That I meant in that comment was I'm Blue by Bebe and Guetta and Ava Max's hits.
A sample I love is what Britney did with Everybody, sampling Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams. Like the song sounds still original yet familiar. A sample I loathe with all my being is I’m Good (Blue), which to me is just an attempt from two mediocre artists to use a well known and loved melody and slap the worst and cheesiest/laziest lyrics on it and call it a day.
I’ve never understood the argument that sampling is lazy or uncreative. A well done sample is AMAZING to hear on a song. It takes a lot of creativity to sample something - especially something obscure- and rework it and make it a part of a whole new song & sound
TLC’s Creep sampled Hey Young World by Slick Rick and then fast forward to the 2010’s Zendaya’s Something New sampled Creep ✨ Music just like fashion is cyclical too
I think my favorite sample is in sunrise by simply red. He uses the piano/synthesizer melody from “I can’t go for that” by hall and Oates. That part where it sounds like a woman is singing/talking as a tribute to the original. I liked this because they weren’t tying to be lazy, but pay homage to the original song and appreciate where it came from.
I like sampling and think if done well can be extremely interesting. I always watch where Drake has sampled from because his tend to be more unique or not easily known at first listen. To me the laziest sampler is DJ Khaled. Every sample he has is done in a way that there is no question what was sampled and he does not try hard to change up any of the original elements of the song.
I don’t have a problem with sampling, some of the greatest hits of all time were samples. Nicki and Beyonce for example are amazing when they sample songs because they change it up to where you don’t realize it’s a sample or it creates a wave of nostalgia to go back and listen to the original (sampling done correctly). I don’t like lazy sampling, when the song uses the same beat,melody, lyrics etc and doesn’t change anything about it but who the artist is. It’s plagiarism atp 😭
Sampling is hit or miss for me. On the one hand, I love hearing songs and beats being repurposed and given a fresh sound. Usually, I love songs that are sampled for that very reason-a precious beat we all know and love as a new generation pop song is hard to dislike, which is the same reason I have a problem with sampling. While I know nothing these days is original-everything’s been done and said before-I think that sampling too often by the same artist, bumping them into fame and the new generation listening not being aware that a lot of their songs aren’t original is kinda cheating. Imagine a teenager listening to “The Edge of Seventeen” for the first time and saying “that’s from Beyoncé’s song.” While it is technically introducing them to a new music from an older generation, it’s a bummer for new artists to cop older music and gain immense fame off the backs of those who came before them. Maybe that’s what music is about though. But it makes you question if their music would be as good without it. While I really do like sampling, I commend artists who don’t do it very often. Ethel Cane is an up and coming artist with a sound that I love that doesn’t sample, and her is so unique and breathtaking.
It very much depends on how a sample is used for me. Up to not that long ago, samples were mostly applied very creatively as a reference in songs that for the majorotity still sounded original. Nowadays sampling, especially in tiktok songs, feels more like copy-pasting an existing melody and writing new lyrics to it.
Once again I applaud Naomi for giving us a excellent video. Have a great day everyone. Happy new Year..!! Thanks alot. PS: Can you do a song on Ghostwriting. I wanna know your thoughts/opinions. And everyone else to. Cuz I truly don't know why some find it bad.
Lately there has been too MUCH sampling going on and it makes me think there isn't enough talent for new stuff. Also it's a cheap way i.m.o. to get a bop bc the sounds are proven already.
Sampling is the furthest from Lazy if done right !! Many people just put lyrics to the original songs instrumental . Now that’s lazy . Not only are you not respecting the artist and the team that worked on that song and instrumental ,but you’re also essentially making new lyrics to an already established song . In my opinion sampling may even be harder than coming up with something original because you have to make it (the song) your own while respecting the artist and the team who’ve made that particular song . Examples of sampling done right would include,Super Freaky Girl +Anaconda-Nicki Minaj,Crazy In Love+Majority,if not all of the Renaissance Act 1 album 💿 -Beyoncé . These are just a few examples of sampling done right !! A sampled song should sound familiar,yet entirely different . If that makes sense . A sampled song should sound like a song you’ve heard before with a whole new sound . I hope that makes sense . I believe that the music industry strives off of sampling songs,especially classics,and I believe through sampling,keeps music especially old classics and others songs relevant and alive !! 😊!!
Happy New Year Naomi!! New subscriber here 🙋🏽♀️. I have been binge watching your vids, excellent work 👏🏾. I learnt something new,had no idea that arrangers from my country 🇯🇲 were the first pioneers of sampling of sorts. It makes so much sense, because so many of dancehall music primarily back in the 90s and 2000s that I remember sampled the same rhythms. Even in the car today,I heard The Weekends song (Creeping) with the sampling of” I don’t Want to know by Mario and Duffy. it dawned on me that he does sampling a lot.
How Sting after getting the courts to give him 80% of royalties from Juice's "Lucid Dreams" gloated really boiled my blood. Like you won, let him live.
Sampling by no means equals to laziness as there are plenty of artists that use samples and interpolations in a very creative manner that you don’t even realize it’s taken from another song. But I do feel like nowadays samples are used in a way to cater to multiple audiences through the nostalgia that the original track causes. The better examples of this, to me, are Betty of young gravy and first class by Jack Harlow. Their success kinda relies on the nostalgia factor.
Sampling is not lazy. Sampling is how we got hip-hop. Legacy artist however were a bit more creative with it imo. You take Mary J. Blige who along with Puffy, melded sampling, hip hop drums and R&B sounds into a sub genre that by and large, is still influencing R&B. When done right, sampling pays homage to these old classics and often times, a smart producer is digging up obscure recordings to draw inspiration from. Beyoncé’s latest album uses samples in such a smart way that she literally has created new songs out of it. So I’m gonna say producers and artist are lazy. Sampling isn’t.
Sampling is definitely necessary within music, some artists whole careers are based on it like the avalanches. Agree with you totally that how you choose to elevate or use that sample is what can set you up for the critique. Think a lot of artists today are purposely using popular 90s/00s song to sample because they know it’s going to make their mid song have a moment. It’s like Prince said, we have songs sampling a sample lol. Tho it’s necessary as it helps create a sonic journey, almost like a family tree made for just one song. I constantly think of ESG - Moody or the Jones Girl’s - Night’s Over Egypt, both sampled over over and again, thereby making them legendary tracks. Sampling ultimately makes music research fun, but you can definitely tell who put the time in and who wanted a cash grab lol
I love your research! I learn something new every day lol Every time I think of an artist that sample songs, I think of Kanye West. When I saw his documentary on Netflix it showed his talent in music and how fast he can produce a beat and rap his lyrics.
I already know I didn’t mention EVERY song with a sample- so go ahead and share some of ur faves so we can listen!
anaconda 100%
Plssss I will be checking that out lmaoo
Money Trees by Kendrick
@@bearsbummed oh u knooo I had to talk about anaconda
@@naomi.cannibal girl it’s a banger i don’t blame you
I feel like Beyonce's Renaissance is a pinnacle of modern sampling. The samples are recognizable, but interpolated and interwoven so seamlessly that it just works.
The album is not good.
@@ruruvarelano that’s just your taste
@@Justanothermusicnerdxo but she is saying that this isn’t what modern sampling is…the songs are interpolated. Alot of the songs I couldn’t even figure out what was being sampled. Modern sampling doesn’t change much and its easier to associate with the original song and hence get the nostalgia. The way beyonce sampled songs for her album is very different which is what the original comment is explaining, so I’m not sure how you made the opposite conclusion.
@@ruruvarela Nobody described it better.
Every song on the album is addictive and high quality
It ultimately depends on how samples are used. If you're not using it in a way that's creative, meaningful & respectful to the original artist, then yes, it's lazy. Hell, not only is it lazy, it's wrong.
This is why Chloe Bailey needs respect for doing heavy original production on The Kids are Alright and Ungodly Hour!!
Yes!!! She’s doesn’t get enough credit
Completely agree!
one of my favorite artists who is known to sample a lot is mariah carey, she chooses wisely when sampling and overall she’s so creative. a lot of people don’t know fantasy is also a sample.
What the hell I had no idea that was even a sample!!! She did an amazing job, literally just kept the beat and made honestly better lyrics for the type of beat
Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love 😍 it’s a fun, wacky song so Mariah def took it to another pop level tho both songs stand on their own in their own genres!
Love the mention of the Jamaican influence in sampling songs.
Yes yes
Jamaican producers created or revolutionized HIPHOP
We are often overlooked with this known fact
For some reason I always forget that technically Crazy in Love is a sample. It’s funny both Destiny Child’s first solo #1 (Dilemma and CIL) included samples/ interpolations.
One interpolation I love is Wild Side by Normani . I love that she used the beat to Aaliyah’s One in a Million! Normani did that record justice ✨
Yessss!!! And to get a co-sign from Aaliyah’s crusty crotchety uncle says a lot
I love sampling. I love learning how creative artist can be taking sounds & rearranging them creating something new, honestly it’s so inspiring. Some of favs include Kendrick’s Loyalty & Duckworth, with Loyalty sampling Bruno’s 24k Magic; recently discovered Drake’s use of Mountains by Charlotte Day Wilson in Fair Trade. Beyoncé’s Don’t Hurt Yourself samples Led Zeppelin, and Homecoming’s transition music uses a bunch of incredible of samples from The Wiz, Juvenile, & The Jackson 5
@@musicstan6362I don’t think any of these artists are more know for sampling than for their own work. I think it’s just well known that they use samples
Bronx drill music is sampling pop songs as well, they call it sample drill.. the drill rapper yungeen ace sampled a thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton. for his song who i smoke which she actually cleared.
@@musicstan6362 Hmmm I personally think so, cause you still ARE creating something new; new verses, maybe a different speed, a standout line/phrase. These are all new things that come out of the use of the sample. And honestly it can be challenging to create something brand spanking new. An argument can also be made that the industry knows nostalgia sells, so they push sampling cause it’s more beneficial financially? Or if I’m an artist that primarily makes club songs, who cares if I’m sampling, as long as everybody shaking ass lol. But it’s still early in Saweetie’s career, so who knows what might change in the future
I have mixed feelings about sampling... I think sampling is find but it depends on how you use it in your song. For example in kpop there has been a huge rise in groups sampling classic songs, but there are different categories. Red Velvet feel my rhythm, snowy by itzy and shut down by blackpink, are songs that I think use sampling to their advantage, if you take away the sample and switch it was a random violin/piano sound the song still works, and snowy is a song where the sample is used so subtly where if takes a second to know what it's sampling. Songs like nxde by gidle and after like by ive are different where the whole song relies on the sample, in nxde the whole chorus is the sample and same with after like, you change it and the song doesn't exist, i find it exciting when you can use a sample to add to the song, no depend on it. In the west you have ava max, who samples more contemporary songs however, she is someone from the beginning of her career has struggled to make a name for herself, she was always compared to someone, and the fact that her most popular songs use samples that rely so much on the original sound, is disappointing. So overall I don't think that sampling is lazy all the time i think it's lazy depending on how you use it.
Same. For example I loved shutdown but after like felt lazy to me
I don’t think Donna Summers sample was needed for IVE it was just beneficial. The lyrical structure could be done on a lot of tempos and beats. The sample gave it more of a dramatic feel but I don’t think it makes or break the song.
@@SBBunny93 Gloria Gaynor sings I will survive, and I don’t think the sample adds anything AT ALL to the song (don’t get me wrong it’s cute) but at the same time the song also would’ve sounded empty without it. Idk how to explain it. It’s my least fave tt of theirs tho
@@SBBunny93 I get your point and I really like the song, but the chorus is literally just I will survive after the you and I part, so that's the part that I am trying to get at with sampling.
As much as i despise Kanye and his current trajectory, he truly mastered the art of sampling in producing some of my absolute favorite rnb and hip hop records
Some people cant even accept that though, they call him a thief. Like really? A thief?? If you hate all form of sampling and deem it thievery you by extension also hate music
My uncle produced the Luniz “I Got 5 On It”. That song samples 3 songs AND about 80 other songs have sampled my uncles production 🤌🏾✨
Sampling was out of control in 2022, hope 2023 uses better sampling or more originality
you and me both!
Just last month I discovered “Miss Honey” that was used as a sample in Beyoncé’s pure/honey. It’s such an unserious song but I love it so much
I really like how your intro is 2 seconds then gets straight to the point of the video, please don't change
I won’t! I haaaaate when creators ramble for too long before starting
I love sampling and pretty much every song today has been sampled or the composition has been used . But I do think some artist over do it out of laziness just for a hit. Like Saweetie for example, all her actually hit songs are sampled . It becomes redundant
right! Like it should be a skill you showcase, not your whole bread and butter
Beyoncé did a great job with sampling on renaissance
This is AMAZING work and also helps me realize how much I value artists who sample well - West, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Kendrick, that's really the connection.
Collaborating (key word) with a past artist's work in the present shows big 🧠 energy, it's an added level of creativity that I LOVE. It's just so much fuller than a song that doesn't sample; totally subjective, I recognize, but being able to engage with material is important to me, and those extra levels keep me relistening.
And THEN I relisten to the sample material and it's even more joy.
Right! I love listening to the original versions of samples
Sampling all depends on the execution if you use sample well it can lead to a great song and if you don't the song will feel like it's lazily made
Nowadays I’ve noticed that a lot of producers are no longer creative with sampling.
Although I’m not a fan of Kanye’s atm he is very good at sampling especially in the early to mid 2000
I don't mind sampling at all as long as u make us forget it's a sample u know what I mean?... Versatility, flow switch, lyrics,etc...💕
Right! Make us forget it's a sample.
I agree, I tend to like those ones better
I agree I think good example is energy by beyonce.it took me so long to figure out where kelis was in that song.
@@runawaypacman it wasn't a sample. It was an interpolation of the lalalas at the end of the song. It wasn't Kelis voice at all
@@angechrisman1694 o ok I couldn't tell
28:00 YES! The music library in my head is extensivvveeee because of this, and I'm grateful because that's the coolest part of music: the referential work and collaboration, and the recognition of past musical genius. Makes it all timeless and forever interesting
I love some samples, just not the remakes. In the 90s, Mary J. Blige was the queen of remakes and samples because she made samples like Rose Royce and The Stylistics.
When you hear "Be Happy" by MJB that's Curtis Mayfield
My Life sampled Everybody loves the sunshine
I’m shocked you didn’t mention more on mariaaaaah!! Like fantasy with the genius of love sample but Mariah actually samples quite frequently and has from the beginning. She has a knack for completely remixing the song in her own way but sampling major segments from her fav Hip hop beats. Several of her big hits and album cutsssssss But as always another amazing video hunnnyyy
my apologiessss 😭
@@naomi.cannibal shocked, not disappointed! You covered the topic so well and I learned so much! 💗
I thought the exact same thing, her ear for music is truly unmatched
it's crazy how groups like PM Dawn used to get a lot of shit for heavy use of samples, but it was super creative and tbh ahead of the curve that their sample songs still sound fresh. be if Set Adrift or Patient Eyes, or them sampling movie dialogues
In My Dreamz from their last album has this lovely Casablanca movie dialogue sample 😍
Whew yes!!! I love it
PM Dawn's lp Jesus Wept is a r&b, funk soul masterpiece. This is from a O.G. at 63.
I think that an example of great sampling without changing the sound of the original track is "Barbie Dreams" by Nicki Minaj, it samples Biggie's Dreams (if i'm not mistaken by the name of the song) which is about having sex with relevant female artists by the time the track was released; Nicki switched the subject and aimed it at male rappers mainly, but with a lot of witty lines that may come off as disrespectful towards whom she names but it's alright because she is cool with most of those dudes, and as if she didn't deliver enough bars for months she added a beat switch to a more contemporary hip hop beat, trap beat in deed, bringing back her so longed alterego Roman and speeding up the track with a 3rd sublime verse which outrapped anything released in 2018.
Yeah, the last few seconds of 'Barbie Dreams' is one of the biggest highlights from the 'Queen' album, but I also like the outro to 'Majesty' on the record too!
a great example!
Biggie and Nicki's songs sample James Brown's "Blues and Pants" from the album Hot Pants(1971).
I want her to sample Biggie again in NM5, it would be iconic. I really wanna hear ride a 90s hip hop beat 😩
Popping in as a producer:
Placing a sample takes WORK lmao. It is the opposite of lazy, truthfully. Pitching and timing it correctly, placing it cohesively within a beat you’ve made takes skill and talent. The first time I tried to place a sample, I literally cried out of frustration.
Taking a sample and making it original to flow with your beat takes werk. It gets a lot easier with time though.
One sample that isnt noted often is “Swing my Way” that is used in Exchange by Bryson Tiller
Mad respect. I figured you’d start with Brooklyn in the 70’s, but starting with France in the 40’s is impressive. That’s some super obscure trivia. My degree is in music and that’s the only reason I knew that.
don’t stop the music is probably one of the best samples.
Rihanna can actually do great when it com to sampling
It was a interpolation of an interpolation tho. Michael Jackson Wanna be startin' somethin' wasn't original. It interpolated Soul Makossa (1974) by Cameroonian musician Manu Dibango
@@angechrisman1694 ? the song is original he just added “mamase mamakusa”
@@tired4250 But he wasn't credited properly tho and didn't receive royaltys from Wanna be startin' somethin' or Will Smith's Gettin' Jiggy With it. I think Rihanna had to pay because she gave credit to MJ and Dibango was pissed and took the issue legally which is understandable. People dk that it was the 1st song by an african artist that made it to the the US billboard hot 100 in 1974
@@angechrisman1694thriller (the album) came out in 1982 and that song you said came out in 1984 so they sampled wanna be startin something lol
One of my favourite examples of a sample is Ciara’s Body Party which samples My Boo by Ghost Town DJ. The sample is prominent but it doesn’t feel lazy or desperate.
"Very Special" the sample from JLo & LL Cool J's "All I Have" is probably one of my all time faves
There was a hot song in the 2000s called Addictive by Truth Hurts that Dr. Dre produced and sampled a song from a Indian composer. Unfortunately it wasn't properly cleared and the composer sued.
🎶 “he’s so contagious…he turns my pages” 😂 YESS! My mama played that CD OUT!!
Actually, it was DJ Quik which produced "Addictive".
Let me find out Dre is taking the credit!!!
That's why I love certain artists like Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla Sign and Frank Ocean mixtapes because I think getting clearances are different because mixtapes are necessarily "sold". They get to really flex their creativity because of more freedom and less constraints.
Loved this videooo. Renaissance did an excellence job on sampling, had me listening to center of thy will 24/7.
They definitely can be lazy but they can also be great. I'm glad you talked about the whole history of sampling, another great video as always
Thank you!!
One part I personally love ab sampling is when multiple artists will use the beat bc you get look at the different versions ppl will hear behind that beat. Plus I never thought that it took away from the original artist but I hear that argument too.
I don’t think it does! If anything I think it shows how versatile and gray their music is if other people can internet it in so many ways
This is unrelated to the video, but I remember watching your first video last year and I'm proud to see far you've come in such a short span of time. Many blessings for the year ahead ✨
This is so sweet, thank you!
Your takes are so refresging, unbiased and socially conscious and you can tell the hard work and research you do to prepare for your videos. We're rooting for you sis🥰
Please don't pull an Empressive on us lmao jk 🤣🤣
thank you!! what’s the tea w empressive? I haven’t watched her in a while
@@naomi.cannibal long story short Empressive moved from music documentaries to commentary to gossip. She's heavily biased and has imaginary beefs with certain artists but what really made her flop were her pick me, and phobics comments against Lil Nas and Dwyane Wade's daughter
@@Terry_Bell Empressive still does All that, she didn't switch up at all, and the imaginary beefs? If you're talking about Cardi B, Cardi B came at her both times. And Empressive sounded very neutral when she was discussing lil Nas and Dwayne Wades situations , so I don't know where you getting the "phobia" from not unless you was hate watching with biases from the jump on her??
I think Nicki executed sample’s flawlessly with her hit’s “Anaconda” & “Super Freaky Girl”
Yasss I agree!!!💕
Agree!! Bc she still showcased HERSELF more on the track than the sample
@@naomi.cannibal Please talk about how absurd the 200 best singers list is.🤮🤮🤮And how they left Celine Dion off the list.
@@Heroliesinyou believe me... i have a plan for that!
@@Heroliesinyou I think they do that for clicks
Sampling can be great, but I'm seeing a rise of pop songs that just sound like covers of the sampled track, just with different lyrics. Those feel lazy to the point that it seems like they're just riding on the catchiness of the original song in hopes it'll go tiktok viral, earning huge sum of money without any creative input.
Especially that EDM rehash of I’m Blue. It’s soooo lazy
Another sample that I love and has been used for decades is the James Browns ‘Payback’ record and it’s considered a classic. En vogue used this sample and it’s considered to be a classic in their catalog as well. Great video, I am praying for more originality in music in 2023!! 🎉🎵
One of my favorite "newer" samples is Big Ol' Freak by Megan Thee Stallion. I remember I was about to get out my car and heard the beat on the radio and I actually stopped to listen. I originally didn't care for the lyrics lol but the Immature/Al B Sure sample pulled me in. Still my favorite song from her.
Not get out the car!!!!
I definitely was into it hearing Nite 'N Day!!!
The frequency that you release well researched, well edited videos is so impressive, love your channel!
Thank youuuu
Honestly it just depends on the artist and how creative they can make the sample their own! 🥰💕
Great breakdown ✨Some of my favorite songs use samples. I don’t think it’s lazy. It helps me learn about older artists too.
Jay-Z "Smile" on the album 4:44 is my favorite, especially of any song sampling Stevie Wonder. Toooooooo good. And after this discourse, it's on repeat today. Just adds extra depth to both the original and what Jay-Z adds + his mom Gloria's words.
I loved that album I was so mad when they put it on tidal for that time
@@naomi.cannibal TRULY. A crime.
I think the problem with sampling today is like you said the lack of originality from the artists. They fail to transform the samples into their own. And also, the fact that almost every artists using samples today, do it the same way. There’s not really much variety.
Listen, Kanye knows music and not only that he understands where and how to place samples. I know how folks feel about him but that man is a genius at sampling. I get lost in his music sometimes and I'm placed back into the 50-80s in literally every genre. I HATE these newer samples, like why do you sample a song that came out in the 00's?! I don't like it lol
Sampling isn't lazy because hip hop was birthed through sampling disco in the 70s. The whole genre was Sampling from the start, so I feel these artists are just following tradition.
Its so funny cause I would’ve called First Class an egregious effort in refreshing a sample. I feel it rides off all the energy of Glamorous and adds nothing new or interesting. I feel it makes a fun song boring.
idkkk i like it! but I think I’m in the minority 😭 but glamorous will always be better
“Fantasy” Mariah Carey samples “Genius of Love” by Tom-Tom club. (First song by a female to debut #1) Also, “Rappers Delight” by Sugarhill Gang samples “Good Times” by Chic!! (First rap song to go Top 10) 🤗
Dj Khaled, Tory Lanez, Saweetie are
The 3 horseman of Apocalypse involving sampling
To me the perfect sample in a song is not even recognizing it at first. Nowadays i just feel like artists are just rerecording a song with the same beat
Tory Lanez is literally a remix artist.
Being reminded of Hard Knock Life honestly makes me realize how important samples are. I didn’t even know about Annie when I heard that song. But samples really help people explore more artists (or in this case, other classic media) that they may have never heard of otherwise.
This is such a great video. I graduated college 10 years ago but you're totally making me feel like you're a cool professor giving a super interesting, interactive lecture. Thank you for the amazing content 🙏
What a cool compliment, thanks!!
Latto sampling mariah then having THEE mariah on the remix was truly the highlight of 2022. Too much iconicness if you ask me
latto didn’t sample mariah 😭… fantasy by mariah carey is also a sample. mariah chooses the best songs to sample.
@@canthinkofauser_name Yeah they both sample Genius of love from the 70s but Big Energy also does incorporate Mariah’s melody in the chorus and makes reference to Fantasy in the lyrics
@@queenbee6154 ik but i’m talking about the sample not the melody/references
@@canthinkofauser_name would that be classed as an interpolation then?
Mariah Carey is another one who has made many hits using samples and has been doing it since the early 90s (Dreamlover, Fantasy, Honey etc)
Happy new year! Thanks for the great videos on your channel and looking forward to more!
I feel like a bad sample can be regressive - banking on nostalgia without building anything new or interesting on top
A good sample is progressive - using the past to inform the future
Everyone has influences; it's about blending the old and the new to keep moving forward
Exactly! And music will keep evolving. Happy new year!
I was about to say Fergalicious! Other songs that come to mind is "Beautiful Girls" by Sean Kingston and "Dilemma" by Nelly and Kelly Rowland. Also, "Tomorrow 2" has audio from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends in the beginning, which I think is wild!
I used to looooove beautiful girls!!
We're just old enough to recognize the samples these days because they're pulling them from our childhoods. It's part of the artform that is music. It changes, it evolves, it get remixes.
Sampling is like singing a song in your own way and adding your original touch to it. So now I get it because I had a rough relationship with the idea of sampling other artists' songs, but I think you've helped me put it into perspective. Like it's keeping the work of other artists alive like I believe that making art is a collective effort and there's still some space left for originality. I guess I define originality in general by the uniqueness that each person brings to the field or industry.
One of my fav samples ever is "Late Nights an Heartbreaks" by Hannah Williams and The Affirmations used in the Jay-Z's song "4:44". Shivers all over the body.
The wave rippling in the background is so hypnotic
Frank ocean’s ‘love crimes’ splices bits of Nicole Kidman’s ‘eyes wide shut’ monologue so flawlessly into itself. It’s my favorite dialogue-in-song sample.
I feel like the majority who think sampling is lazy are thinking about songs that are basically covers but act as original songs with sapling. These songs are profitable because of nostalgia and familiarity and lack any artistry and originality. What Kanye and others do by taking bits and pieces of multiple songs is pure art.
The most egregious example of this is Rihanna with Tame Impala's Same Ol' Mistakes. She literally sings a karaoke version of the song, with the exact same adlibs and everything.
When I heard Tame Impala's version after hearing Rihanna's, I literally cringed.
@@lakacianiybizi3573 Is that even a sample? I think it's a cover. I was surprised when I heard her version. That I meant in that comment was I'm Blue by Bebe and Guetta and Ava Max's hits.
@@lakacianiybizi3573Rihanna still did a great job tho, she never really makes covers
@@NadezdaBekayeah I agree I keep seeing people say the same thing
Even if it wasn’t meant for it, this is my birthday present! I love your vids and everyone you upload I know it’s going to be a good time
Happy birthday!! 🎉
@@naomi.cannibal Thanks! ✨😁✨
Happy birthday!
Great video Naomi! I can tell you put a lot of research into this.
Thank you 🙏🏾
im obsessed with these video essay style videos
Oh how lovely! I just woke up and I get to watch your video to start my day!🙌🏾
personally i think it’s a great way to start ur day 🫶🏾
A sample I love is what Britney did with Everybody, sampling Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams. Like the song sounds still original yet familiar.
A sample I loathe with all my being is I’m Good (Blue), which to me is just an attempt from two mediocre artists to use a well known and loved melody and slap the worst and cheesiest/laziest lyrics on it and call it a day.
Yup
I’ve never understood the argument that sampling is lazy or uncreative. A well done sample is AMAZING to hear on a song. It takes a lot of creativity to sample something - especially something obscure- and rework it and make it a part of a whole new song & sound
TLC’s Creep sampled Hey Young World by Slick Rick and then fast forward to the 2010’s Zendaya’s Something New sampled Creep ✨ Music just like fashion is cyclical too
“Sampling” in todays music is more so interpolating the beat than the sample itself.
Right especially w the Bebe Rexhas and the Ava Max’s
Terrific video. I like sampling when it's done right and gives new life to the song, and it's also like a nostalgic new adventure 👍🤠
I think my favorite sample is in sunrise by simply red. He uses the piano/synthesizer melody from “I can’t go for that” by hall and Oates. That part where it sounds like a woman is singing/talking as a tribute to the original. I liked this because they weren’t tying to be lazy, but pay homage to the original song and appreciate where it came from.
hung up’s abba sample by madonna is still my favorite sample
that song is what gained me consciousness as a 7 year old
I like sampling and think if done well can be extremely interesting. I always watch where Drake has sampled from because his tend to be more unique or not easily known at first listen. To me the laziest sampler is DJ Khaled. Every sample he has is done in a way that there is no question what was sampled and he does not try hard to change up any of the original elements of the song.
That Too Sexy song with Future was lazy sampling, though, especially when Beyonce's Alien Superstar samples the same song so flawlessly.
@@lakacianiybizi3573I like beyonces sample better too
I don’t have a problem with sampling, some of the greatest hits of all time were samples. Nicki and Beyonce for example are amazing when they sample songs because they change it up to where you don’t realize it’s a sample or it creates a wave of nostalgia to go back and listen to the original (sampling done correctly). I don’t like lazy sampling, when the song uses the same beat,melody, lyrics etc and doesn’t change anything about it but who the artist is. It’s plagiarism atp 😭
Sampling is hit or miss for me. On the one hand, I love hearing songs and beats being repurposed and given a fresh sound. Usually, I love songs that are sampled for that very reason-a precious beat we all know and love as a new generation pop song is hard to dislike, which is the same reason I have a problem with sampling. While I know nothing these days is original-everything’s been done and said before-I think that sampling too often by the same artist, bumping them into fame and the new generation listening not being aware that a lot of their songs aren’t original is kinda cheating. Imagine a teenager listening to “The Edge of Seventeen” for the first time and saying “that’s from Beyoncé’s song.” While it is technically introducing them to a new music from an older generation, it’s a bummer for new artists to cop older music and gain immense fame off the backs of those who came before them. Maybe that’s what music is about though. But it makes you question if their music would be as good without it. While I really do like sampling, I commend artists who don’t do it very often. Ethel Cane is an up and coming artist with a sound that I love that doesn’t sample, and her is so unique and breathtaking.
Weak by Flo milli completely changed the meaning of the song. I loved it !
Ooh one of my faves “Anything” by SWV sampling Grand Master Flash “Freedom” 🎉🎉🎉
It very much depends on how a sample is used for me. Up to not that long ago, samples were mostly applied very creatively as a reference in songs that for the majorotity still sounded original. Nowadays sampling, especially in tiktok songs, feels more like copy-pasting an existing melody and writing new lyrics to it.
This is like taking a music history class
I LOVE your breakdowns and deep dives
thank you 💕
Best song/ sample I've heard in a while Freddie Gibbs "Too much"
I love using your videos as background noise while still listening to every single word!! Keep it going (::
Once again I applaud Naomi for giving us a excellent video. Have a great day everyone. Happy new Year..!!
Thanks alot.
PS: Can you do a song on Ghostwriting. I wanna know your thoughts/opinions. And everyone else to. Cuz I truly don't know why some find it bad.
Ghostwriting would be such a fun topic!!
Lately there has been too MUCH sampling going on and it makes me think there isn't enough talent for new stuff.
Also it's a cheap way i.m.o. to get a bop bc the sounds are proven already.
Sampling is the furthest from Lazy if done right !! Many people just put lyrics to the original songs instrumental . Now that’s lazy . Not only are you not respecting the artist and the team that worked on that song and instrumental ,but you’re also essentially making new lyrics to an already established song . In my opinion sampling may even be harder than coming up with something original because you have to make it (the song) your own while respecting the artist and the team who’ve made that particular song . Examples of sampling done right would include,Super Freaky Girl +Anaconda-Nicki Minaj,Crazy In Love+Majority,if not all of the Renaissance Act 1 album 💿 -Beyoncé . These are just a few examples of sampling done right !! A sampled song should sound familiar,yet entirely different . If that makes sense . A sampled song should sound like a song you’ve heard before with a whole new sound . I hope that makes sense . I believe that the music industry strives off of sampling songs,especially classics,and I believe through sampling,keeps music especially old classics and others songs relevant and alive !! 😊!!
You’ve really been feeding us thank you 😭❤️❤️
You’re welcome!!
Happy New Year Naomi!! New subscriber here 🙋🏽♀️. I have been binge watching your vids, excellent work 👏🏾. I learnt something new,had no idea that arrangers from my country 🇯🇲 were the first pioneers of sampling of sorts. It makes so much sense, because so many of dancehall music primarily back in the 90s and 2000s that I remember sampled the same rhythms. Even in the car today,I heard The Weekends song (Creeping) with the sampling of” I don’t Want to know by Mario and Duffy. it dawned on me that he does sampling a lot.
Happy new year 🎊
Play no games by Big Sean did a great job of sampling Guys piece of my love. Not to mention the music video meshed very well together.
How Sting after getting the courts to give him 80% of royalties from Juice's "Lucid Dreams" gloated really boiled my blood. Like you won, let him live.
exactly, let it go
Sampling by no means equals to laziness as there are plenty of artists that use samples and interpolations in a very creative manner that you don’t even realize it’s taken from another song. But I do feel like nowadays samples are used in a way to cater to multiple audiences through the nostalgia that the original track causes. The better examples of this, to me, are Betty of young gravy and first class by Jack Harlow. Their success kinda relies on the nostalgia factor.
Brilliant video essay!
Sampling is not lazy. Sampling is how we got hip-hop. Legacy artist however were a bit more creative with it imo. You take Mary J. Blige who along with Puffy, melded sampling, hip hop drums and R&B sounds into a sub genre that by and large, is still influencing R&B. When done right, sampling pays homage to these old classics and often times, a smart producer is digging up obscure recordings to draw inspiration from. Beyoncé’s latest album uses samples in such a smart way that she literally has created new songs out of it. So I’m gonna say producers and artist are lazy. Sampling isn’t.
Sampling is definitely necessary within music, some artists whole careers are based on it like the avalanches. Agree with you totally that how you choose to elevate or use that sample is what can set you up for the critique. Think a lot of artists today are purposely using popular 90s/00s song to sample because they know it’s going to make their mid song have a moment. It’s like Prince said, we have songs sampling a sample lol. Tho it’s necessary as it helps create a sonic journey, almost like a family tree made for just one song. I constantly think of ESG - Moody or the Jones Girl’s - Night’s Over Egypt, both sampled over over and again, thereby making them legendary tracks. Sampling ultimately makes music research fun, but you can definitely tell who put the time in and who wanted a cash grab lol
I love what Doja did on Vegas!
I love your research! I learn something new every day lol
Every time I think of an artist that sample songs, I think of Kanye West. When I saw his documentary on Netflix it showed his talent in music and how fast he can produce a beat and rap his lyrics.
Thank you!! And yes to me Kanye is one of the best at sampling
I hope you feel better but your makeup look is gorgeous ♥️♥️♥️
Thank you! And definitely resting my voice lol