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James Brown is the most sampled artist in music history, full stop. As the self-proclaimed Godfather of Soul, he single-handedly invented funk by stripping soul music to its rhythmic essence — everything locked to the one, played tight, hot, and deep. His JBs recordings from 1969–1976 are the primary source material for hip hop sampling.
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