Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.
When I sample something, it's just me drawing from what I'm actually into. It's whatever sounds like a good track.
I tried to embrace the concept of the sampler as an instrument, looking at how to take it artistically to another place where it can be appreciated, more than just taking someone's song and doing a 4-bar loop.
If I sample a song, I usually make samples out of the whole album. Then I move on after that. Doesn't mean I'm going to release that whole album, but I do that.
I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.
There is some sampling on my records and a lot of what I call replays, where I'd have musicians come in the studio and replay the sample from the original record. But mainly, we'd come up with our own music.
All the Public Enemy albums, I knew what records they were sampling but was like, 'How'd they construct it like this?!'
I love sampling, and RZA loves sampling, too.
One of the things that's really the cornerstone of '90s hip-hop is sampling.
I've always, in some way, incorporated sampling into my work.
