Some songs are more than just hits—they become the foundation of future music. Over the decades, certain tracks have been sampled repeatedly, shaping everything from hip-hop to electronic and pop ...

WhoSampled scans your iPhone's library and reveals the samples that powers the songs on your handset. WhoSampled helps you connect the musical present to the past by highlighting the song snippets ...

The app WhoSampled just released an update that can make anybody a music historian. It now features helpful new technology that can completely digest a song’s samples, remixes and cover history. Read ...

WhoSampled, the service that identifies music samples, recently updated their iOS/Android app to include Shazam-style music recognition. Now when you hear a song playing in a bar or a store, you can ...

Led Zeppelin is responsible for some of rock history’s most epic guitar riffs and rhythms. The band transcended rock n’ roll and impacted other musical genres, including hip-hop. While the two seem ...

Eminem is making a comeback, and we can’t forget all of the memorable songs from his heyday that made him one of the most well-known rappers in history. The love his early works get is warranted, but ...

Skrilla Reveals the True Meaning of ‘6-7,’ Details on His Next Album and Advice From YoungBoy Never Broke Again Hip-Hop Artists Who’ve Gone Diamond Babyfxce E Discusses His Upcoming Debut Album, Being ...

Editorial Illustration with Bollywood poster. Bollywood movies are one of India’s most recognizable exports. Extravagant sets, big casts, and dramatic plots are all synonymous with these lavish films, ...

Although music sampling—the reuse of previous music in a new song or piece—is a rich, centuries-old tradition, we seldom hear about its successes. On one hand, the mass media seems to have drawn a ...

His samples serve as a reminder that basic human rights aren’t that basic for everyone in our “progressively modern” age — that even if we try to pretend to be someone else, as an individual or as a ...