One of the greatest things about rap & hip hop is the art of sampling 👨‍💻 It doesn’t only show musical skill to be able to flip a sample well, but also curation and well developed taste in music. Before producers even start flipping a sample, they have to be able to pick an artist, an album, a song, and then a very specific portion or sound from that song to repurpose for their beat 🧠 When it’s done well, sampling adds so much more to the song, not just sonically, but contextually too. It’s a very underrated art form, and we wanted to take a look at some of the most sampled voices in modern rap 👇 Many are R&B/Soul legends, such as Aaliyah, Lauryn Hill, Sade, and Luther Vandross. Even modern R&B singers like Sampha have been sampled in so many legendary rap songs. On top of that, you have angelic singers in the folk/pop landscape such as James Blake & Bon Iver who have made plenty of notable appearances in rap. We’d be remiss to not mention Imogen Heap, who has literally become...