Author: Jon McDaneld

Hello, readers and listeners! This week’s post is dedicated to the reigning king of sampling. The “Godfather of Soul,” James Brown is the most sampled

Hello, readers! I am so stoked to talk about our Artist Pick for this week, the Queen of Hip Hop, Miss Mary J. Blige! This

Hello, Sampl’d readers! This week I am introducing a new concept on Sampl’d. Sometimes artists have such an extensive catalog that they can even sample

Hello, readers! This week on Sampl’d we have another artist pick instead of covering just one sampled track. So I’ve broken down the musical mastery

Hello, Sampl’d like listeners! This week on our playlist, we have a sample from one of my favorite ’80s bands, Cameo. Cameo is an American

Hello, Sampl’d readers! This week I will be covering songs that sample the incomparable Mr. Stevie Wonder. But, of course, I could create a separate

Hello, Sampl’d readers! I’m so excited about this week’s sample because I know you all have heard this instrumentation used in Beyoncé’s infamous 2003 song

Welcome back, readers! This week on Sampl’d I will be breaking down a sample from The Stylistics. These Philly natives are hands-down one of my

Greetings, Sampl’d readers! We’re doing things a little bit differently this week on Sampl’d. Instead of reviewing a reoccurring sampled track across different artists, I

  Hello! This week on Sampl’d, we’ll be discussing a track that I’m sure most of you have heard in Ashanti’s 2002 song, “Foolish.” The