Songs sampled most often by rap / hip-hop artists?

[ok_cpu]

I'll start with "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" by Bob James and "Peg" by Steely Dan.

[jmm]

1. Between the Sheets, Good Times, and Atomic Dog

Those have to be the three most heavily sampled songs in hip-hop.

[ok_cpu]

5. Good choices.

Especially Good Times.

[Lannes]

2. The beat to" funky drummer"

by James Brown would be my guess.Not that much today but there was a time when it was everywhere.

[ok_cpu]

3. That's the song I couldn't think of

I knew it was James Brown but could not remember which song.

[Lannes]

4. Ill also add

A friend of mine was a rapper and he asked me to provide samples for his and his buddie's album in the late 80s on a major label.I put 6 songs at the top of the list and he turned them down,five of them were later used in major hits by other artists.Oh well....

[MrScorpio]

6. I know all the samples

But some good ones are FUNKY WORM by the Ohio Players, School Boy Crush by AWB and Melvin Bliss' Synthetic Substitution (The Biggest) and James Brown's Funky Drummer


James, by the way, is the biggest source for beats

[Orsino]

7. "The Message" Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five n/t

[MrScorpio]

8. There have been bigger

Lot's bigger

[ok_cpu]

9. You ever poked around this site?

http://www.the-breaks.com/

Pretty interesting

[MrScorpio]

10. I already have it bookmarked

I use it for research

Great site

[Aimah]

11. I think James Brown has to be the Most sampled artist.

I decided to look it up. James Brown was what I figured before looking.


Most sampled songs
Rank # Samples Artist Name Song Name
1 182 Brown, James "Funky Drummer"
2 127 Sly & the Family Stone (Stone, Sly) "Sing a Simple Song"
3 116 Honey Drippers "Impeach the President"
4 111 Collins, Lyn "Think (About It)"
5 100 Brown, James "Funky President"
6 92 Bliss, Melvin "Synthetic Substitution"
7 80 Clinton, George "Atomic Dog"
8 73 Kool and the Gang "N.T."
9 65 Brown, James "The Payback"
10 60 Skull Snaps "It's a New Day"
11 59 James, Bob "Nautilus"
12 59 Brown, James "Get Up, Get into It, Get Involved"
13 59 Parliament "Flashlight"
14 53 ESG "UFO"
15 51 Zapp "More Bounce to the Ounce"
16 50 Byrd, Bobby "Hot Pants. . . I'm Coming, I'm Coming, I'm Coming"
17 49 Ohio Players "Funky Worm"
18 46 Kool and the Gang "Jungle Boogie"
19 45 Mohawks "The Champ"
20 44 Tex, Joe "Papa Was Too"

http://www.the-breaks.com/perl/stats.pl

Edit: Didn't realize that the site was already posted.