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How Music Sampling Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Dre's the Chronic

Dr. Dre was one of the first people to stop sampling and start recreating stuff with live musicians himself which is called producing. EMI who owned the Beatles recordings even though Jay Z and Paul McCartney were totally fine with it they shut it down and said you're not selling this no but it made his careerYeah he famously in 2004 did a mashup of the Beatles white album Jay Z's the black album and called it the gray album very creative. He has his own line of headphones should we talk about danger mouse real quick sure the gray album yeah. And that was just the soundtrack of one year of my college life oh yeah and that was a lot of George Clinton yeah tons'

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