# @forthespeakers on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DM_JZCTR1pN
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- **Posted:** 2025-08-05T20:25:38.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** For the Speakers | Daily Music Content (@forthespeakers) — https://gondola.cc/forthespeakers

## Caption

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 a staple in cloud rap as a whole.

Certainly there are plenty of others to put on this list, so let us know who should be included in Part 2 👀💬

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## Tags

jamesblake, laurynhill, mfdoom, boniver, sampha, imogenheap, sade, cloudrap, aaliyah, sampleflip, hiphopsamples, drake, asaprocky, kendricklamar, luthervandross, kanyewest, macmiller

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