As a result, an entire world of sound is opening up if it sounds good, it’s being created – a massively exciting development in NYC rap, and one that returns to the sample-based roots that helped create hip-hop in the first place… right in New York City, at that. Artists are ignoring the “ red tape” of sample clearance and releasing new music at breakneck speed, encouraging others to do the same. A wave of sample-based production is happening all over the city, pairing classic songs of all genres with NYC’s omnipresent drill sound – a lethal combination of hard-nosed drum patterns and soaring 808s with colorful arrays of samples, from rock songs to soul songs and everything in between. There’s a new sound taking over New York right now, though, unconcerned with any of this. As a result, some producers even made it a point to make sample-free music, reflective of the general attitude toward the arduous process and legal implications of sample-clearing. But as time went on and hip-hop grew, the laws surrounding the use of other artists’ music for sampling grew increasingly restrictive, and the connections and money needed to successfully clear samples partially closed that window for smaller, independent artists. In the 90s, during what some would consider the “golden age” of hip-hop, producers were flipping the soul records they grew up with into cutting edge rap records. Sampling isn’t a new thing, and it surely isn’t new to hip-hop.

Song is sample on comin out strong