I think of sampling as musical collage. If its all you do then you're an amateur. If you use it sometimes it can be great. If you alter what you use, you are introducing originality and making it your own. Its not a problem that people are sampling... its a problem when people get rich adding nothing to whatever they are sampling. In hip-hop there are original lyrics even if everything else is stolen. And by the way... I'm sorry but its not enough to throw your own ****ty MIDI 4/4 grove underneath one or two samples and call it your own.
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