“Sampling is Plagiarism and Nobody Can Convince Me Otherwise”

I love the art of sampling and this video is a love letter to my favorite samples in music
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[@FifthWorldOrigin]

even zelda and silent hill sampled music

[@jrurbbehdidiwdnndjduw85eos73]

I believe they only used dedicated sample packs, not sampling other songs

[@veracityhiphop]

@@jrurbbehdidiwdnndjduw85eos73 sound packs are samples. They just come with pre-authorization for clearance with the purchase from the company.

[@kuso.0147]

i mean Earthbound did it a lot too. More like the early earthbounds. My favorite is the Mother 2 and 3 soundtrack, amazing sampling techniques

[@ethai1]

@@veracityhiphop True, but og comment said they sampled music, which is incorrect (at least for sh, idk about Zelda).

[@veracityhiphop]

@@ethai1 Sound packs come in various forms. Some may be one shot drum sounds and single notes, others can be entire drum breaks or synth melodies ect. Some are even full compositions (songs), and yes Silent Hill has used them. There are plenty of blogs, interviews and KZbin videos that have cataloged the creation process of SH's sound design. Again the difference is the sampled materials, song or sound source for these games. Used vendors selling sample packs specifically for developers with copywrite clearance baked into the purchase. The music created by performance artists is an entire different market. Usually requiring authorization from the label, and all parties that contributed to the recording that was put into retail. Also requiring this to be done individually for every instance this is allowed, as clearance can be denied.

[@swavelmane8856]

One of my favourite samples is don’t cry, I don’t even have to mention the fact he made it in a hospital bed, they way he both gives it bounce and such palpable emotion is spellbinding and always amazes me whenever it comes on

[@samstarrdotcom]

Facts!! Donuts is amazing!!!!

[@Eddsucks]

All of Dilla is don’t cry level.

[@tombradshaw1378]

Don't Cry was what inspired me to make my first album. J Dilla the goat fr

[@fabioescudero6204]

I dont want to break your heart but it was probably not made on his hospital bed. Most donuts beats if not all were actually done in his LA home while going in and out the hospital. The emotion and the illness still there doe, dilla the goat

[@tylerramos7633]

Rip Dilla

[@archive6094]

Sampling is pretty much what collage is to art

[@fkeita67]

Exactly

[@blackberrybicon]

I sort of agree but not completely. In my opinion the best use of samples typically involves using many original elements as well. Some artists use collage this way, but that veers a bit into multimedia i think

[@zander3943]

love the new style of videos, also completely agree. sampling is one of the most fascinating uses of music edit: my favorite samples are sodium by bones, ain’t it funny by danny brown, devil in a new dress by kanye, get got by death grips, sleep dealer by opn, shattered dreams by earl sweatshirt, strange ways by earl sweatshirt, money trees by kendrick

[@FredJonesy]

kendrick using beach house will never not be funny to me, he did it so well too

[@brown-eyedcheese5440]

@@FredJonesy the producer, DJ Dahi, sampled it. but yes, it is a little funny. especially knowing it’s one of his biggest songs

[@coastercraziness]

Samples are one of my favorite aspects of all music. It’s so cool seeing how someone can take something and turn it into something completely different

[@samstarrdotcom]

sampling is sick and it sucks that artists barely make a cent off their records with samples in em if they're cleared, also great vid jake

[@tinrobit]

" looking at art refrences is cheating and nobody can convince me otherwise " " asking for help is gaming the system, and I was given a trust fund " love the colloge btw :)

[@Nidelimit]

Without samples in music, Hideki Naganuma, the master of the funky beats wouldn't have that tittle, and therefore Jet Set Radio and many other games wouldn't be that great, samples are a good resource to fill that empty space where you can't figure out how to fill it and brings back to life old music in a new style

[@TKO_CEY]

Dannys best album putting him in debt is a tragedy

[@wiiremote1013]

the kingdom hearts key sample is unreal

[@zander3943]

yes

[@briangarcia8384]

Yes! That song is honestly my favorite off of scaring the crows.

[@WrvrUgoThrUR]

What intrigues me about sampling is the puzzle-pieces aspect of creating. Taking pieces from disparate sources, altering them(or not) but ultimately codifying them into a cohesive work.

[@MelkerJohanssonRexner]

I think sampling is one of the most impresive ways to make music. It takes a lot of work to do good music with samples.

[@shakeontheirown]

Thank you for putting me onto the Injury Reserve live version of Superman That! I listened to that song a fair bit before I met one of my current friends who really loves BC,NR and finding out that song samples one of their songs is wild.

[@dopey473]

"sampling is plagiarism" my brother in christ half of the songs you probably ever heard use the amen break.

[@OkRiver06]

One of my favourite cases of sampling is Daft Punk's 2001 album "Discovery". Many of its songs have at least one sample, and one of the best examples of this is the second to last song on the album: "Face to face". This song being pretty much built upon samples, with at least five different ones that we know of (I say "That we know of" because people are *still* discovering (No pun intended) new samples, with the most recent one being found just a couple of weeks ago). Here is a great video showing all samples in discovery, including "Face to face": kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3LUeYash56Vp9U Great video as always, Jake! :)

[@michaelmartirosyan4453]

Pretty sure there's now up to 20 or so discovered samples on face to face but I heard it could be up to 70, absolutely insane

[@coldhands2802]

I love three 6 mafia, especially the really old samples and $uicideboy$ . Scrim is a great poducer and finds amazing samples.

[@lightspaceman5064]

That’s not an opinion. It’s a statement. A false statement. Sampling is a part of the natural progression of music technology.

[@liamcox9043]

I love the beach house sample in money trees, and the fact that it went on to be kendrick's most popular song makes the flip and the fact that a lot of people don't know about it even more impressive

[@impulse_xs]

Great Rap Albums/Tapes with mostly sampling: Paul’s Boutique- Beastie Boys Mista Thug Isolation- Lil Ugly Mane Soundbombing 2- Rawkus Records Mixtape Mixtape #57(or just pick any number there’s like 2 million)- Tony Touch Moment of Truth- Gang Starr 13 Chambers- Wugazi When the Smoke Clears- 3 6 Mafia Paid in Full- Erik B & Rakim Disposable Arts- Masta Ace

[@TheTriangleOffense47]

Daft Punk - Discovery has some of the best sampling I’ve heard. There’s still little techniques and ideas I find on that album that I bring into my hip-hop production with me

[@basilmemories]

A bit more mainstream, but I still love Dessa's "Matches to Paper Dolls", it uses the Warsaw Village Band's "At My Mother's" as the main backing and outro. Which is great as Warsaw Village band themselves remixes (and mixes) traditional polish village songs with modern instrumentals (ie: "In the Forest")

[@matthewharty6531]

DJ Shadow Endtroducing full album made completely from sampling

[@DecayingReverie]

A great deal of the samples that The Caretaker uses on Everywhere at the End of Time and permanently etched in my brain. I had such an emotion response to that album and the power he creates taking all those old forgotten ballroom songs is truly an example of transformative usage. Another one of my favorites is whatever crazy-ass sample TVVIN_PINEZ_M4LL and death's dynamic shroud use in "Why are you like this". That saxophone goes fucking nuts. The music video is awesome for it as well.

[@jeremyusreevu237]

I know the title is sarcasm, but anyone who thinks sampling is plagiarism genuinely does not understand how copyright works.

[@odencore]

Good vid, only thing I was thinking was that sampling actually goes back further. Before the birth of hiphop, it started in the 40s with musique concrete/tape music

[@WilliamMaranciMashups]

quality video. that jpegmafia/danny brown sample's origin is insane.

[@lucassssssssssssssssss]

My favorite example of sampling is in Replica by Oneohtrix Point Never. The whole album Replica is amazing, the way he uses old commercials in his music is something I've never heard before in any other album. I really like how he builds on top of these clips, using them as a rhythm track or as the main melody. The samples feels integral to the songs rather than something just slapped on top of a regular song.

[@nauruball5162]

One of your best videos so far. Great picks for the samples here too.

[@xyink3783]

I fucken love sampling, aint no one gonna stop from typing youtube to mp3 converter, also by favorite's samples is face/off by Ghais Guevara it is so damn good

[@tescobesco]

Hellfire by Cunninlynguists is an all timer for me. Starts off playing “Fire” by Arthur Brown and that song is very kooky. It then rewinds, and starts splicing various parts of the song in and around the banger drum beats, with “Fire” being nearly every part of the beat. So amazing.

[@wes.9353]

glad Cunninlynguists are getting love. same QN5 as a whole isn't acknowledged, let alone Tonedeff.

[@impulse_xs]

The bass line sample on Fukinwichu is one of my favorite samples ever. Glad to see other people appreciate them too.

[@mosswarne972]

Personally one more time is my favourite sample what daft punk did with those trumpets is really creative

[@RockandRollMusic00]

"You spend sometimes months writing, rehearsing and recording these albums and creating these songs. There's a lot of work that goes into their creation. They're like your children. Then someone else comes along and can take your master recordings, cut them up and take the bits they want, put a drum beat over it and slap their name on it, then release it and make money from it? I'm like...but that's MY music. How is that fair? I couldn't do that to someone and live with it."

[@arisumego]

1:06 it’s not necessarily just that they couldn’t afford instruments, there were so many reasons other than that lol

[@impulse_xs]

Fr lol. It’s like saying EDM was invented by people who can’t afford a grand piano. Does he think Jazz was invented by rich white people too? Anyone familiar with hip hop should know it’s origins were heavily influenced by Dub/Dancehall and Disco. If you listen to Lone Ranger, Jah Thomas, or Welton Irie it’s pretty obvious where the ideas for sample based beats, MC style rhyming, and repurposing or transforming existing sounds came from. Really, sampling existed before those genres, let alone hip hop. Really intellectually lazy to just boil it down to “they’re poor lmao”.

[@LukassYT]

man this is something fresh. sick style. love the details, especially the youtube video as paper, so well done

[@connorkiggins1198]

Hey Jake i really enjoy your content. One of my favorite uses of sampling is in Break a Hoe by Dj Paul and Three 6 Mafia, it samples Pimps by 8 Ball & MJG, I Get Da Chewin by Project Pat, and Eddie You Should Know Better by Curtis Mayfield. DJ Paul effortlessly combines all these pieces into something incredible

[@bladonski]

The album cranks by grant samples like half the tracks in Goldie's timeless. My favourite however has to be the track mainstream belief in which grant samples the famous Goldie interview where he talks about "music for the mind" and then intersperses it with samples of kemistry (from timeless) in which the sampled bits of the track take on a whole new form of foggy nostalgia. It hits me so hard every time.

[@innocentbystander1993]

big fan of sample on "What would I want? Sky" by animal collective, apparently it was the first legal sample of grateful dead ever lol

[@cedricbagein9328]

This track is craaaazy

[@obama281]

Bye Storm is one of the best samples I have ever heard. It sounds like a tragic lullaby at the end of time.

[@controversialtv2603]

My fav samples have to be azucar by earl sweatshirt, figaro by mf doom and madlib (obviously madlib would have one here) and specifically the dj screw sample in logic's "hit my line"

[@fraicheness]

Very nice vid. I‘m super happy that production and sampling is enjoying an appreciation and breakdown phase like never before. Copyright needs an update though

[@s0y_aaa]

bro why this guy has so little views and likes, you editting is so unique and awesome

[@5tnblnkt]

Love samples, love how producers are able to manipulate them and make somethig new out of them, or just even pay homage to the original artist by using them in some contexts, i believe the using of samples is pivotal to modern music and, and as an aspiring producer, i love using them too.

[@hlgglh]

Recording a chord played on guitar is sampling from the person who built the guitar, and since most artist doesn't build their own instruments, they are as guilty of sampling/copyright infringement as the beatmakers sampling the artists. Change my mind?

[@hnchrkw885]

tying collage into a video definitely deserves a sub let me tell u

[@Impala101]

I love the way these videos look

[@carpo719]

In that rationality we should never use language because somebody else invented it

[@forestioso]

When someone you listen too samples your favorite artist without knowing until years later is a sweet treat

[@MercurySG3M]

Great video. Never realized Injury Reserve had sampled BCNR on Superman That

[@candymanlol]

this channel has such good aesthetics

[@Im-BAD-at-satire]

3:12 An far as right now my favorite samples are, of what I'm aware are as such, from Mother 2/Earthbound and Mother 3's soundtrack. You'll notice countless western inspirations and homages all throughout - Shigesato Itoi, the writer, really admired western culture, not every aspect as there's satirical representation throughout; he respects the west enough to criticize it. Gotye's Somebody I Used To Know also is another i favorite.

[@hug21]

this is easily the best music channel right now

[@Jackariah-N.]

There is a fine line between sampling and pladurism

[@ieatatsonic]

I do Mashups so sampling is a big thing for me. Even then, so much of modern music is founded on sampling. Hip hop, electronic, rock, and newer subgenres like vaporwave all utilize sampling. It's audio collage. As far as favorite samples go, I gotta hand it to the horse sample The Avalanches used in SILY. So good they put it on more than one song! That album as a whole has some legendary picks, like the Boston tourism record. Outside of them, Replica by Oneohtrix point never has some great usage of sampling commercials. Sleep Dealer being pretty much just a spearmint commercial but chopped around to make something super haunting is so interesting and cool. EDIT: Oh, also Kids and Explosions. It's sort of mashup, but most of the samples are so cut and repeated that they tend to become nearly indecipherable. The first track, Everything, uses the word "Keep" to create a sort of percussion sound off the "k" phoneme. It's sick.

[@jakepelletier2955]

Daft Punks Face to Face is some of the craziest uses of sampling ive heard

[@nakwadroid]

Almost their entire work is made out of samples, and I think it's amazing!

[@swarler]

face to face is an incredible piece of music and i love it so much

[@snakesharkz]

my favorite samples of all time are baby I'm bleeding (the entire song) and backseat freestyle (the powerpuff girls one)

[@peepnox7747]

Nice video Jake 👍

[@thecaremaker1001]

Here's some of my favorite sample based albums: 1. Wildflower by The Avalanches It's mind-boggling the amount of attention to detail in the album, the amount of tiny samples of people saying "woo!" or cheering or just random conversation is in the hundreds, each song on the album has at least like 30 samples, it's a lot of the reason the album took 16 years, and the unmatched happy vibe of the album is the main reason it's my favorite album of all time. Any of The Avalanches albums I could put here. 2. Lost And Safe by The Books This album is a folk/electronic fusion and the whole group is known for their extreme use of mega obscure vocal samples, including but not limited to: - A tourism record of England. - A drama movie about escaping the Australian Outback. - A short clip from an obscure African/French comedy film - A promotional 7" record from the 1950's for a Dutch make-up company. 3. Volcanic Bird Enemy And The Voiced Concern by Lil Ugly Mane This album uses a lot of samples but 90% of them are completely unknown and unidentifiable, but the few that are known are really amazing, it highlights the style of foggy benadryl-infused hypnotic pop that Lil Ugly Mane introduced with this album. Extremely underrated album and my favorite of the decade so far. 4. Endtroducing by DJ Shadow This is THE sample album. I don't need to explain why. Listen to it NOW. I hope you don't mind me saying that your examples have prime white boy energy by the way.

[@chaz_gaming]

SILY better

[@thecaremaker1001]

@@chaz_gaming I mean it's tied for me idk

[@hyjaph]

@@chaz_gaming chaz.

[@Kalitayy]

Untrue by Burial is also a Electronic masterpiece

[@chaz_gaming]

@@hyjaph NOOO

[@vlvyyplipsclip7379]

that comment is kinda vague, like death grips sampled a fucking printer on face melter. is that plagiarism? no it isnt lmao

[@Mr.Bronze]

I sample my own beats. Sometimes I sample people talking and put the vocal chops around.

[@David-yk5tq]

Playing the trumpet is plagiarism and stealing from the inventor of the trumpet, and no one can convince me otherwise.

[@susse9059]

Titanic by Eevil Stöö

[@Owly7789]

my fav is defo bald by jpegmafia, the first time I heard it I actually levitated

[@onikrux]

im just happy this was uploaded in 4:3

[@flobyboby84]

The Quelle Chris album “Lullabies For The Broken Brain” is full of interesting samples from beginning to end. It my favorite instrumental hip hop album I’ve ever heard.

[@tetrisboi7731]

The Caretaker:

[@ASlickNamedPimpback]

as a fellow jake this is a video

[@Wolfman-rd1pv]

Pretty much everything by The Caretaker is just sampling lol

[@blouburkette]

This video triggered me and I was about to go tf off in the comments. But then I see Jake is on my side. Thank Christ. It CAN be plagiarism... if you don't repurpose it.

[@mortezz1268]

Half of Reddit thinks like this

[@GDClears]

This takes arguing on the comments to another level

[@ianstratton]

Plagiarists usually don't send the original artist a nice royalty check everytime the "ripoff" gets played.

[@genericonion6255]

Common jake W

[@Grawlixify]

Faith in Persona has other great examples to choose from. Vocal samples from Demi Lovato, Dua Lipa, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, and Kelsea Ballerini.

[@zackp1717]

Injury opened up for Idles of all bands on their last tour over here. Was sick

[@brupster]

My definite fav is Fashion Killa by Asap Rocky. The Dream's song, if I'm not mistaken.

[@Logan_Irrelevant]

I mean it is taking something that somebody else created, but that’s also kind of true about instruments and languages so what even is plagiarism when everything was created someway. No but really, it is technically plagiarism, but if it’s altered, using a small segment, or just using it as artistic flare while not making it a major focus of the song, seems good in my book. Sampling done wrong, taking a chorus or main hook of a song and using it as the chorus or main hook of the new song. Basically taking the iconic feature is “stealing” but it doesn’t really matter if it works as a finished piece. Sampling done right, some distinct element of a song, altered to fit a whole new type of song, and isn’t the main focus. Also, using small segments as flair is fucking rad, it’s like a little Easter Egg. If it slaps it slaps…

[@prodbysundown]

Favoriten sample oat for me is the piano sample on silence of sleep by yayayi

[@SASTSimon]

the dariacore trilogy (especially dariacore 3) and berdlycore have great sampling

[@strakenberry]

cataratas by pedro ladroga got the smoothest Zelda sample ever

[@Onyxhills]

Great video, I turned it into a song

[@briangarcia8384]

Good comment

[@Arionid]

sampling is plagiarism and no one can convince me otherwise

[@ApolloMclaren]

Whats REALLY crazy about sampling is we use it all the time without even thinking about the word plagiarism. Sound packs, stock instruments, anything prerecorded thats used in a song isn’t technically yours and in many cases you should be accused of stealing if you choose to release that work. Copyright laws are becoming archaic and only applicable in fewer and fewer cases. I really hope in the future we dont have to worry about any of this and we can have the freedom to do whatever we want with each others work. Its already happening with social media regulations allowing people to slow and reverb speed up slow down and profit from releasing these edits without copyright claims. I understand how polarizing my opinion is but I just dont think anyone who actually cares about the music they make is worried about the amount of money they’re receiving from it. Musicians dont make money from streams anymore and if they do its not even minimum wage in most cases. Successful artists have found so many ways to stay afloat from their work without suing other artists over infringement. The way i see it, the less interested people are in making money off music the better the music will be. Just a thought I hope someday we will at least be a little closer to that idea.

[@cryingmakesmehorny4632]

Nice

[@Bartholomule01]

Good thing is copyright software meant to flag/take down music with samples compares audio to wide music libaries. So samlles that are altered are way less liekly to get picked up. Even a sample minimally altered isn't always caught judt because of the other elements of the song it's being used in. So on the more indie side of small artists tryjng to upload to streamimg and stuff you tend to be able to get away with a lot.

[@timefragment5387]

Sampling is cool

[@gabrielaguilar9892]

Any Nujabes fans here? Think Different by Nujabes has a good sample. I suggest you give it a listen!

[@netscans]

I think one of the most interesting samples (to me at least) is the "SOMEBODY SCREAM" that is used so heavily in j-core and especially the BEMANI series of rhythm games, to the point where I'm pretty sure its a rite of passage to use it semi-regularly in your tracks. This video highlights it's usage pretty well. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6muXmdoaMmdmac I think the sound circulated around in a lot of low budget sample packs during the 90s and 00s, it's super corny but very endearing as a long time fan. Like many of the samples used in dance music, it's actually from an 80s acapella kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYnXm3adZr6qqqs

[@netscans]

also on a flip note, western soundcloud artists are fucking OBSESSED with sampling japanese shit, even peggy sampling wacky japanese commercials and super forgotten mecha anime OPs (like escaflowne?? who the fuck saw that coming)

[@netscans]

just a super interesting contrast because j-core artists love using cheesy english vocal chops and snippets in their music from things you reaaaally wouldnt expect as a westerner consuming the music. maybe an interesting video idea?

[@icekiller1594]

Danny Brown is still in the red after making atrocity exhibition in fucking 2016?????????????????????

[@philipscannell9220]

Sampling is fine EXCEPT when Kenny G overdubbed himself onto a Louis Armstrong song. A travesty! An abomination!

[@le4chehenry324]

Yep Kenny G is trash

[@kBarBeats]

all of music is plagiarism and nobody can convince me otherwise

[@kBarBeats]

@MaxGoyco i mean we only have 13 notes (at least in the west) and a gazillion musicians, something's bound to repeat it self...

[@kBarBeats]

@MaxGoyco exactly hehe

[@jrg98]

Well sampling excited because some musicians didn't want to wait for a backing band , henceforth why mpc 2000 was innovated

[@NotFenriz]

Everyone talking about DPs discovery but nothing about endtroducing....

[@gone_fishinq]

buzzcut by brockhampton has one of the best samples ive ever heard, it's chopped up parts of one of their own songs (bleach) and it still sounds incredible everytime i listen to it

[@gone_fishinq]

another example of incredibly creative sample usage is tyler the creator's yonkers, i cant be the first one here to say that but it's a propellerhead machine sound on loop. absolutely genius

[@gone_fishinq]

yet another i swear this is gonna be my last but meatgrinder by mf doom opens with this incredibly iconic earworm of a sample loop that madlib pulled from an ancient commercial from the 60s. regardless of how he found it the application is genius

[@LordConstrobuz]

@@gone_fishinq >60s >ancient lmao

[@purpleducttapehat]

nice hair bro

[@ehlohimwhil5762]

Whether or not it actually is plagiarism , (GRANTED THAT THE ORIGINAL ARTIST HAD A GOOD RECORD DEAL) they still get paid and can ask or take majority publishing

[@Limes_not_Lemons]

most samples are good, but damn, that I'm blue David Guetta song and that Jack Harlowe song that samples Glamorous while talking about his semen are both crimes against samples

[@badabadabadatubababadadaah1410]

shows how the whole nature of sampling goes over some peoples heads.. i'm blue by david guetta is so rediculously stupid. hes an ignorant person and ends up resorting over to sampling something probably "nostalgic" to him. his tribute song to george floyd is already bad enough. david is kind of a legitimete fool.

[@TheDandy99]

Uh about injury reserve continuing…

[@flamingbanana5831]

how does one mention samples without j dilla or madlib

[@jaydnomi]

swag :D

[@GGRRIITTZZ]

Hi eric andre