{"id":135910,"date":"2019-03-10T10:08:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T09:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=135910"},"modified":"2019-03-11T03:52:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T02:52:36","slug":"what-is-the-most-sampled-loop-in-music-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/what-is-the-most-sampled-loop-in-music-history\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Most Sampled Loop in Music History?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v89CjsSOJ_c\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What do <strong>N.W.A., Salt-N-Pepa, Skrillex, Slipknot, David Bowie<\/strong> and basically every drum and bass track have in common? They&#8217;ve all used the <em>Amen<\/em> break, a four-bar drum solo that has become the most sampled loop in music history. <\/p>\n<p>Recorded in 1969, the six second sample originates from the song <em>Amen, Brother<\/em> by <strong>The Winstons<\/strong>, a funk and soul group from Washington, D.C. For many years, the solo was buried deep in musical archives\u2014that is until hip-hop pioneer <strong>Lou Flores<\/strong>, aka <strong>Breakbeat Lou<\/strong>, featured it on his compilation, <em>The Ultimate Breaks and Beats<\/em>. Once producers caught wind of the solo, it took off, going on to change music forever.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"135911\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/what-is-the-most-sampled-loop-in-music-history\/captura-de-pantalla-2019-03-06-a-las-8-48-32\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Captura-de-pantalla-2019-03-06-a-las-8.48.32.png?fit=700%2C353&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"700,353\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Captura de pantalla 2019-03-06 a las 8.48.32\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Captura-de-pantalla-2019-03-06-a-las-8.48.32.png?fit=540%2C272&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Captura-de-pantalla-2019-03-06-a-las-8.48.32.png?fit=640%2C323&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Captura-de-pantalla-2019-03-06-a-las-8.48.32.png?fit=640%2C272&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"272\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-135911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Captura-de-pantalla-2019-03-06-a-las-8.48.32.png?resize=540%2C272&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Captura-de-pantalla-2019-03-06-a-las-8.48.32.png?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do N.W.A., Salt-N-Pepa, Skrillex, Slipknot, David Bowie and basically every drum and bass track&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-zm6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}