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Now it's unoriginal by definition, but it's not copyright infringement, as long as the source is either public domain or properly licensed out. And done right, it can be a great way to add mood to an extra work. Sadly, copyright law is still extremely murky in this area, as most rap producers in [[The Eighties]] ignored the laws without consequence, and only a few landmark lawsuits, such as the ''Grand Upright Music Ltd. vs. Warner Bros. Records Inc.'' case of 1991 established that sampling must be approved by original copyright owners.
 
There are many methods of sampling, but the most widespread nowadays and the one attracting the most [[Hatedom]] is the "loop-it-and-leave-it" method, which basically implies sampling a part of or a whole song, repeating it, and then rapping over it. This often attracts criticism because of its "lazy" and "unoriginal" nature. Compare, for example, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTiaKzDFDmY "I'll Be Missing You"] by Puff Daddy, with its telegraphed-from-a-mile-away easily recognizable sample (from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH_YbBHVF4g "Every Breath You Take"] by [[The Police (Music)|The Police]]), or the Bomb Squad's work with [[Public Enemy (Music)|Public Enemy]], with its dense layers of samples that [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYblg4i2HD8 aren't] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQQ413Zff9c easily] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWna-0J27Mw recognizable].
 
If you're interested in lists of who sampled what and where, [http://www.the-breaks.com/ The-Breaks] and [http://www.whosampled.com Who Sampled] are great reference sites.
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* ''Negativland''.
** Speaking of which, they got in trouble for sampling [[U 2U2]]. The album with songs sampled from such band would get re-released 10 years later as ''These Guys Are from England and Who Gives a Shit''.
*** Casey Kasem was probably less than thrilled with the use of some of his swearier outtakes.
* [[Radiohead]] makes some interesting usage of samples:
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== Electronic ==
 
* The album version of "U Don't Know Me" by Armand Van Helden contained a sample from (of all things) a [[DextersDexter's Laboratory (Animation)|Dial M For Monkey]] cartoon.
* Virtually every track from the Goa Trance and Psychedelic Trance genres samples a movie, usually a sci-fi one.
* The JAMS got in trouble for sampling ABBA. [[wikipedia:Who Killed The JAMs%3F|So they burned the albums in a field.]]
* "Cola Bottle Baby" got sped up and sampled into "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" by [[Daft Punk (Music)|Daft Punk]]. This wouldn't be notable, except that ''that'' song got sampled into Stronger by Kanye West, slowing back down in the process.
** Kanye himself is one of the most prolific samplers in the industry; see [[Kanye West|his page]].
** Although West only sampled the new Daft Punk vocals, so the original melody is kind of lost.
** [[Daft Punk (Music)|Daft Punk]] also deserves an award for Most Unlikely Techno Sample: "Superheroes" is based around a sample from ''Barry Manilow'' (the song "Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed").
*** Daft Punk does a lot of sampling, actually. It's fun to try to figure out which parts are samples and where the samples came from.
*** In fact, the reason their album ''Discovery'' received the nicknames ''veryDisco'' and ''Disco? Very!'' was partly because of the sampling on the album.
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== Hip Hop ==
 
* Arguable [[Trope Codifier]] - [[The KLF]], which stands for Kopyright Liberation Foundation. They were art-terrorist types who built a musical career on silly, blatant sampling done with no permission, [[Troll|upsetting a lot of people]]. Particularly [[ABBA (Music)|ABBA]].
* The groups which have used this technique to [[Quality Byby Popular Vote|most critical acclaim]] are: the [[Beastie Boys (Music)|Beastie Boys]] ([[wikipedia:Paulchr(27)s Boutique|''Paul's Boutique'']], produced in collaboration with the Dust Brothers and sampling a whopping total of 105 songs/movies), Public Enemy (the Bomb Squad were famous for creating noisy, intense songs from lots of samples at once), DJ Shadow ([[wikipedia:Endtroducing|''Endtroducing....'']]) and [[Esham (Music)|Esham]] ([[wikipedia:Judgement Day (album)|''Judgement Day'']]).
** And when Public Enemy did build a song ("he got game") around one recognizable sample, the signature harmonic riff from Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth," they [[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)|actually got Steven Stills to sing the bridge for them and appear in the video]].
** As Spike TV [http://www.spike.com/articles/fm8o7q/the-top-10-classic-albums-that-accidentally-ruined-music pointed out], ''Paul's Boutique'' probably helped the copyright laws that lead to a lesser number of samples to appear.
* The [[Wu-Tang Clan (Music)|Wu-Tang Clan]] loved using clips from old Chop Socky flicks.
* A rare example of a song from an anime being sampled in a Western track would be a sample from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9_p-nhZXLg "Rain] by [[Yoko Kanno]] sped up to produce [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iviaSSEdHtE "The Rain"] by indie hip hop artist [[Tech N 9 neN9ne]]. At the very end, the clip slows down and Mai Yamane's distinctive voice can be heard.
** Another example can be found in Fat Jon's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEVpCu-9qro "Talk To Me"], which samples "Melfina's Song" from ''[[Outlaw Star]]''. Granted, this ''is'' the guy who later went on to co-write the soundtrack for ''[[Samurai Champloo]]''...
** Das Racist sampled the closing credits theme to ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'' in their song "Rappin 2 U". Apparently rappers love [[Shinichiro Watanabe]] (which isn't really that surprising).
** MF DOOM (as one of his [[Split Personality|many alter egos]] King Geedorah) sampled incidental music from ''Gatchaman'' in his song "The Fine Print".
* Wiz Khalifa's song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKWFvbgkWls "Never Been"] samples "Schala's Theme" from [[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]].
* Mr. Scruff likewise builds a great deal of his music out of samples. Probably his best-known -- since it was used in several commercials -- is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS_CLIF1h-o "Get A Move On"], which tears down and reconstructs an old Moondog track, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSimbyS_YlA "Bird's Lament"].
* The "Oh-wha-oh!" from The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" was sampled for "Check It Out" by [[Nicki Minaj (Music)|Nicki Minaj]] featuring will.i.am.
** Also in Orbital's "Don't Stop Me".
* Puff Daddy and his Bad Boy record label often get the worst criticism for simplistic sampling methods. One example is "Come With Me", which samples from [[Led Zeppelin (Music)|"Kashmir"]] (and correspondingly credits Jimmy Page), and "I'll Be Missing You", a sample from the Police's "Every Breath You Take". A oft-repeated joke theory is that Puff Daddy - or whatever he's going by this month - keeps changing his nickname so he can steal his own music.
* Rapper A-1 did an album, ''After School Special'', where each song samples the theme song of and is about a show he used to watch as a kid, including [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MulyRk70I5E Reading Rainbow], Nickelodeon's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZC2sZkyoFA All That], and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a07dDvHqsNw Pokemon].
* Rapper Fabolous samples "Dance of Curse" from [[Vision of Escaflowne]] in the song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_8Z1lPru_A Body Bag].
* Producer The 45 King sampled the chorus "It's a Hard Knock Life" from [[The Musical]] ''[[Annie (Theatre)|Annie]]'' for [[Jay-Z (Music)|Jay-Z]]'s song "Hard Knock Life". He also turned the first two lines of Dido's "Thank You" into the chorus of [[Eminem (Music)|Eminem]]'s song "Stan".
* Flo Rida garnered a truly legendary amount of backlash and hatedom over his songs "Right Round" and "Sugar", which shamelessly sample Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" and Eifel 65's "Blue" respectively.
* Rap group [[Bone Thugs-n-Harmony (Music)|Bone Thugs-n-Harmony]] samples fighting game ''Eternal Champions'' for the song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKQe23hUnY4 "Eternal"]
* Play the [[Public Enemy (Music)|Public Enemy]] instrumental "Security of the First World" to anyone who was alive and listened to radio/watched MTV in 1990. Ask what song it's from. Don't be surprised if they say it's from [[Madonna (Music)|Madonna]].
* [[Eminem (Music)|Eminem]] samples ''[[Soul Calibur]]'''s "Cervantes’ Theme" for the song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdS4ln9N3vs "Hellbound"]
* Kool G Rap sampled the ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'' battle theme in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjS0d5OxrZs "We Gs"]. Yes, really.
** Another ''FFVII'' example, rapper Cam'ron samples "One Wing Angel" in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5ZWWm17yLs&playnext=1&list=PL4FAFE7373A6B5E64 "Troublemakers"].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8EJ2zrkncs This rap] samples the track [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xrRuhuHyic "Star of Darkness"] from ''[[Secret of Mana]]''.
* Bun B samples Justice on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eboEKCp_Jcc "On to the Next Year"]
* [[Busta Rhymes (Music)|Busta Rhymes]] has a few: "Touch It" famously samples "Technologic" by [[Daft Punk (Music)|Daft Punk]]; "This Means War!!!" samples "Iron Man" by [[Black Sabbath (Music)|Black Sabbath]]; and "Dangerous" samples the first four lyrics from "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xayd1c0wtOE We're Not Candy]", a [[The Eighties|1983]] Long Island Regional Poison Control Council [[Public Service Announcement]] warning children that [[Drugs Are Bad|pills are not candy]].
 
== Metal ==
 
* Some bands do this in reverse, taking sound clips from movies or tv shows and inserting them into their songs. Dream Theater in particular does this often, a good chunk of "Space-Dye Vest" is made up of sound bites, and the first minute or so of "The Great Debate" is news clips.
** [http://web.archive.org/web/20041019023832/http://www.sloth.org/samples/sourcelist.txt Exhaustive research] has established that the top 5 most sampled non-musical works are: ''[[Blade Runner]]'', NASA, ''Apocalypse Now'', ''[[Alien (Filmfranchise)|Aliens]]'', and JFK.
* Dragonforce used the ''[[Double Dragon]]'' theme in one of their songs. Although it wasn't a direct sample. It was a guitar riff.
* [[White Zombie]] is a rare (non industrial) metal example in using extensive sampling, mostly from old B movies, with some Rush Limbaugh, Batman, and Manson Family thrown in.
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== Pop ==
 
* Probably the earliest use of sampling was [[The Beatles (Musicband)|The Beatles]]' "I Am The Walrus", on which they (with permission) used samples from a BBC Radio production of ''[[King Lear]]''.
 
== Punk ==
 
* The 80's [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|glam-punk]] band Sigue Sigue Sputnik loved sampling from sci-fi movies such as ''[[A Clockwork Orange (Filmfilm)|A Clockwork Orange]]''.
 
== R & B ==
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* On two separate occasions, Eels have sampled ''themselves'': "Efil's God" is largely based around backwards loops of earlier track "Dog's Life", while a short violin phrase in "Selective Memory" later was prominently looped in "Fresh Feeling".
* Mark De Gli Antoni of Soul Coughing built his keyboard lines entirely out of samples from multiple sources, some from his own work pre-dating the band itself. At least two Soul Coughing songs ("Bus To Beelzebub" and "Disseminated") are built almost entirely around Raymond Scott samples.
* [[Space (Music)|Space]] absolutely loved doing this, particularly in the early days. ''Spiders'' is very heavy on samples - the one that stands out the most being the [[The Elephant Man|Elephant Man]] sample on 'No One Understands' - as are several B-sides.
* [[Sublime]] was notorious for sampling, not just actual parts of songs but lyrics as well, most famous example: "Doin' Time" ("Summertime" from ''[[Porgy and Bess]]''), but most of their songs had at least one sample.
* Fastball's ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0wfu3tOrtQ "The Way"] begins with a series of sampled clips amidst the sounds of a television changing channels. One of the sampled sounds is a vocal clip from Jewel's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNoouLa7uxA "Foolish Games"].
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