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How Music Sampling Works

Stuff You Should Know

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The History of Music Sampling

There was a big rush at one point because it was a new genre. The music industry, as we'll see, kind of went on a tear of like suing everybody and protecting themselves. Hank Shockley, the former producer of Public Enemy, he will say that, you know, we don't have any problems paying music to artists who created this stuff. But there are two sides to that story.

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