Music has many factors to it that makes it so beautiful, yet complex and with much history to it. One factor to be focused on, in particular, is sampling. According to The Art of Sampling, sampling is the “reuse of a portion of a song in another song”. A producer and rapper that used sampling and influenced the hip hop music game was RZA. RZA sampled many other songs and put his own spin on it. The website utilized to verify RZA and the songs he sampled is WhoSampled.com. For example, one is “Tragedy by RZA” and the sample is “A Jackass Gets His Oats By The Amazing Rhythm Aces” (WhoSampled). Another example is “Fatal by RZA” and the sample is “Venus in Furs by The Velvet Underground and Nico” (WhoSampled). Lastly, another “C.R.E.A.M. by Wu-Tang Clan (prod. …show more content…
He took the beats or vocals from the other songs and incorporated them into his songs. RZA used many different sampling machines and it depended on the occasion. Sometimes he was feeling a different machine, invested more money into another, or one had a different/better feature than the other. Overall, some sampling machines he used for songs were the E-mu Systems SP-1200, EPS-16+, and Ensoniq ASR-10 (Fehlhaber). A song to point out in particular is “Fatal” and for that he used the MV8000. RZA states he was able to stretch out beats, have bpm matches, 8 tracks of audio and MIDI tracks, and more (Martiansurvivalkit 3:46). This shows that RZA progressed, had much experience with sampling machines, and had many sampling machines in rotation. RZA has the unique style and technique he uses in his samples. For his style it was more soul/funk, vintage, and kung fu sounds in his music. In particular, in his Wu-tang era it seemed more of kung fu/cultural samples (Vanity