While the drums’ cornerstone role has not budged since the late 1980s, an equally dominant center piece to hip hop is the bass. James Brown’s music and drum breaks belonging to drummer Clyde Stubbelfield, arguably the world’s most sampled musician, provided the foundation on top of which producers and beat makers laid harmonies and melodies. The core of hip hop that has carried on since its early roots was the funky drum groove. Controversy emerged on the ethics and legality of sampling music and the topic of money and creative rights became a hotly debated topic – and still is today. No one – including lawyers or major labels – thought much of the musical style at the time that only seemed to flourish in New York’s boroughs.īut all that changed when the genre began to emerge from the underground and into the mainstream. The birth of a musical genre that took poetry and spoke it to a beat and a specific cadence seemed like a fad at the time an underground sensation.
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