Music Sampling Playlist

I been wanting to do another playlist post for a while. I was planning on doing a Christmas mix, but I didn't sit down and write a post before Christmas. Instead I'm going to do a list based on sampling.

Recently I've started paying a lot more attention to sampling in music recently, mostly because I've been getting into the soul and funk music from the 60's and 70's that gets most widely sampled. Sampling has become an ubiquitous part of our pop music/culture. Based on what I've learned--mostly from Wikipedia--the origin of sampling in American musical culture was the invention of breakbeats by DJ Kool Herc. Sampling certainly existed since at least as early as the 1960's, but it was Kool Herc's method of extending beats from funk and soul tracks that developed into hip-hop in the late 1970's. This made hip-hop the first musical genre to which sampling was an intrinsic part. And you know, at least generally, what happened after that.

So I've been collecting a playlist of some originals and songs that sample them. You might wonder, as I did, If there is a site that catalogs the use of samples in music. That site is whosampled.com. They have a large user generated database of samples, which helped me find a few of these.