It didn’t take long for Clyde Stubblefield to start hating his greatest creation. The 20-second drum break, which he first played in a Cincinnati studio near the end of an exhausting 1969 tour with ...

French philosopher Jacques Derrida created a term called iterability, focused around how the idea of "quotation" is both repetition and a deletion of repetition. A quotation is an exact mimic of an ...

Clyde Stubblefield, the legendary drummer who played with James Brown and created one of the most sampled drum parts in the history of music, has reportedly passed away at the age of 73, ...

Sampling has quietly reshaped music over the past five decades. A snare hit here, a vocal yelp there, maybe a drum loop that becomes the foundation for an entirely new genre. It’s wild how a forgotten ...

James Brown released a seven-inch single called Funky Drummer in March, 1970 – a loosely arranged jam session showcasing the talent for improvisation of drummer Clyde Stubblefield, who was employed in ...

Dylan Wissing is a session drummer with a passion for meticulously duplicating famous rhythms. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Dylan Wissing has been making a living as a versatile session drummer since the ...

On episode 3 of 'The Almanac of Rap,' 9th Wonder and Reuben Vincent push back on the idea that younger artists don’t understand hip-hop’s depth or history. Aside from the huge sample, Stubblefield ...

Jay Mumford was attending Mamaroneck High School in the early Nineties when he made a hip-hop demo tape that sampled the drums from “Midnight Theme,” a song by the Seventies funk band Manzel that’s ...