A standout hip-hop sample is more than just a looped snippet—it’s a transformative element that elevates the track. Sampling ...

Craig Charles shines a spotlight on hip hop's foundations: its samples. Thanks to passionate crate digging, rap tracks have not only been built around some of the best grooves and beats ever ...

Its standout track, however, was Warren G’s Prince Igor, the chorus of which incorporated Polovtsian Dance from Alexander Borodin’s opera of ... classical samples in hip hop?