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Featured, Music, News & CultureNovember 25, 2021

The Death of Sampling

I had been writing about the issue of digital sampling in hip-hop for several years in the 1980s. When a judge’s ruling in 1991 forever changed the way hip-hop would be made, I wrote this followup.

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Featured, MusicJune 4, 2017

Hank Shocklee: The Bomb Behind Public Enemy’s Squad

Tweet    In 1991, when I interviewed Hank Shocklee — the Bomb Squad production crew member who Chuck D once called the “Phil Spector of […]

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