{"id":166743,"date":"2022-07-29T09:14:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T07:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=166743"},"modified":"2022-07-24T16:14:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T14:14:36","slug":"janko-nilovic-the-80-year-old-composer-sampled-by-jay-z-dr-dre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/janko-nilovic-the-80-year-old-composer-sampled-by-jay-z-dr-dre\/","title":{"rendered":"Janko Nilovic, the 80-Year-Old Composer Sampled by Jay-Z & Dr. Dre"},"content":{"rendered":"

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French composer and arranger Janko Nilovic<\/strong> lives like his best work is still ahead of him. At 80 years old, Nilovic<\/strong> has no intentions of retiring. He\u2019s lost neither his joy nor his passion for composing, despite having recorded 30-plus albums since the late 1960s that effortlessly blend soul, jazz, funk, psychedelia, and classical. But his most celebrated work is filed in the genre commonly referred to as \u201clibrary music\u201d\u2014music that could be licensed for use in radio, TV, and film. Later, library music became core to the development of hip-hop; Nilovic<\/strong>\u2019s work has been sampled nearly 60 times, and he scored a Grammy nomination for No I.D.<\/strong>\u2019s use of one of his pieces in Jay-Z<\/strong>\u2019s 2009 song D.O.A. (Death of Autotune)<\/em>. Dr. Dre<\/strong> sampled Nilovic<\/strong>\u2019s Underground Session<\/em> for a beat on his 2015 album Compton<\/em>, and samples of his work have appeared in songs by The Alchemist & Freddie Gibbs, Yr Old Droog, The Beatnuts, Joey Bada$$ & Schoolboy Q<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Read the whole article about Janko Nilovic<\/strong> by Bandcamp Daily here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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