Put Your Weight On It Episode 2

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I think that it is a well known fact that music, particularly from the 70’s is the bedrock of hip hop.  The pioneers of hip hop took the songs that they loved and looped the break; therefore, giving the emcee a beat to rhyme over. The DJ was once in charge of manually playing breaks on turntables which then gave way to a house band recreating those breaks. That all changed with the invention of the E-mu SP-12 which was a drum machine and sampler, which revolutionized the way that hip hop was made.

The artform of sampling is quite brilliant. In this episode of Put Your Weight On it, we explore the songs that have been interpolated and reinterpreted through hip hop.  On a side note, I did include one song that is a remake, technically not a sample. You will hear that this compilation is Isaac Hayes heavy. His music from Shaft kicked down the door for blaxploitation soundtracks setting a precedence which is made evident by the plethora of producers who used his music.

See if your ears can pick up the songs in which the music you will hear has been sampled and transformed into.