![]() Then came the video that would kickoff his sample series: Ariana Grande’s “ goodnight n g o” sampling Imogen Heap’s “ Goodnight and Go.” After taking a break from Twitch to finish school - Habibeats will soon graduate as a law student - he started posting videos on TikTok: from him making beat remixes on a drum pad he has to making mashups on his turntables. The birth of the series came about as Habibeats’ bar and club DJ gigs came to halt amid the pandemic, with the LA-based DJ taking to Instagram and Twitch to perform sets. One of the main figures associated with hip-hop sample breakdown videos on the social media platform is DJ Habibeats, who has made over 170 “Songs you probably didn’t know were samples” videos since joining TikTok in January this year. But there are more recent instances like the Sting-sampling “Lucid Dreams” by the late Juice Wrld or the Frank Ski-sampling “WAP,” too. ![]() and Ice Cube, respectively, are common among many of these accounts. The standards are accounted for: the Isley Brothers-sampling “Big Poppa” and “It Was A Good Day” by the Notorious B.I.G. ![]() ![]() Now, TikTok has become another place where people aren’t just learning about entry level staple hip-hop samples but contemporary examples too, with people creating videos primarily highlighting well-known songs from artists that have samples. Sure, there are still purists both young and old that adhere to the practice of not disclosing a sample’s source (aka sample snitching.) But sample sharing has become more democratized through the internet, with forums, Twitter threads, and YouTube comments often answering someone’s question of, “What sample is this?” And with the advent of websites like WhoSampled, it’s unlikely that a sample goes unrecognized nowadays. Where producers used to comb through vinyl bins and take parts of obscure jazz and soul tracks or funk classics, contemporary producers are only a click away from finding a song to sample, whether that be ripping tracks from YouTube or using sampling subscription services like Tracklib. The practice of digging in the crates for samples has gone digital because of the internet.
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