The 11 Most Sampled Artists of All Time

[BenjaminE]

George Clinton is not seeing any money from this shit though

Why?

Cuz i ain't payin...

 

[kingofharts]

George Clinton is not seeing any money from this shit though

Why?

Cause he don't own his publishing/masters (I always get the terminology mixed up)! Blame that on his prolific drug usage, because he seemed to be otherwise smart business-wise.

Actually I wonder if a lot of those older artists on those lists own their music.

Record company pimpin' was in full effect back in the days.

Also, if I'm not mistaken, in the early days of rap (ie late 80s or so) cats didn't have to pay for using samples. Think it took some lawsuits for that whole structure to get put in place.

 

[kingofharts]

wonder where willie hutch would rank, i know three 6 did quite a bit with his catalog

Hutch was most definitely a beast. One of my faves.

Another cat that's one of my faves is tom brock, who was down with Barry White (also a top notch musician). Far as I know he only had one album, but the joints was so epic.

Mos def basically used this whole song (not just sample) and just changed the lyrics

"I Love You More and More"


And Jay-Z's Say Hello sampled his There's Nothing in this world

 

[_Goldie_]

Suprised EWF isnt up there, every time i turn around somebodys samplin them niggas.

As far as rappers , I think its

Big

jay

pac

 

[Rue_Flexington]

Roger & Zapp didn't make the list?

As many times "More Bounce To The Ounce" has been sampled c'mon son