Author Archives: Arya Rathore
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1. This book explores the cultural and artistic practices of sample-based hip-hop, focusing on how producers create new tracks by recontextualizing sounds. Schloss examines the technical processes, ethical considerations, and artistic motivations behind sampling, situating it within the broader hip-hop tradition. Schloss’s exploration of sampling as an art form offers critical insights into how rappers …
Stronger
Kanye West’s popular song “Stronger” is based on a well-known sample from Daft Punk’s song “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger,” which in turn reimagines Edwin Birdsong’s 1979 song “Cola Bottle Baby.” A musical doppelgänger is produced by this sample layering, in which each version both mirrors and changes the original. West’s Daft Punk sampling turns into …
Power
Kanye West’s “Power,” from his 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, is a perfect example of the use doubles in music. At the heart of this track is a interplay of doubles and doppelgangers—musical elements that both pay homage to the past and reinvent it for the present. One of the most famous features …