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The New Look WhoSampled.com is Here! 12 Aug 2013 | 05:47 pm
After many months of hard work here at WhoSampled HQ, we’re hugely excited to announce the launch of the new look WhoSampled.com! Regular users of the site will no doubt have noticed the cleaner page ...
What’s Changed in the New Look WhoSampled.com 12 Aug 2013 | 05:45 pm
Following on from our ‘New Look WhoSampled.com’ blog post in which we outlined the major updates to the site, we’ve also put together a list with some detail on minor changes and technical features we...
Hip Hop’s 40th Birthday 11 Aug 2013 | 08:06 pm
Jamaican born, Bronx NY resident Kool Herc’s ‘Back to School Jam’ hosted at the now legendary South Bronx community center at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue is widely considered to be the event at which Hip Hop...
Interview with Simon Harris 25 Jul 2013 | 04:15 pm
For the latest edition of our interview cloudcast series, we were grateful to speak with seasoned DJ, producer and label boss Simon Harris. Best known for his late 80s sample based house hit ‘Bass (Ho...
Win Tickets to Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival This Saturday 10 Jul 2013 | 07:39 pm
The 9th Annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival takes place this week in New York City with events and afterparties running throughout the week, culminating in Saturday’s headline show which features perform...
J. Cole – Born Sinner: The Samples 9 Jul 2013 | 08:42 pm
Words: Casey Brown & WhoSampled staff Little more than a couple of weeks ago, J. Cole looked set to rocket from sideline story to spotlight. The release of the ‘Truly Yours’ EP earlier in the year ha...
Jay-Z: The Samples [Mixtape] 8 Jul 2013 | 08:36 pm
Coinciding with the release of Jay-Z’s twelfth studio album ‘Magna Carta… Holy Grail’, once again we dig in the vaults, this time to bring you a retrospective of some of our favourite source material ...
Kanye West – Yeezus: The Definitive Samples 26 Jun 2013 | 09:35 pm
Words: Chris Read With the dust now having settled following the storm of media attention that has surrounded the release of Kanye‘s sixth solo studio album ‘Yeezus’, we take a look at the album’s DN...
Win Tickets to The ‘Sample This’ UK Screening This Friday! 19 Jun 2013 | 05:19 pm
“The gunshots that rang out in the summer of 1968 started a musical revolution”, so states the strap line to Dan Forrer’s ‘Sample This’, the incredible story of The Incredible Bongo Band. The movie te...
Kanye West: The Samples 18 Jun 2013 | 12:30 am
As Yeezus fever grips the internet ahead of tomorrow’s official release of Kanye‘s electronic opus, we thought it a perfect opportunity to review some of the source material that has made Kanye consis...
