No. Not all the greatest albums or songs are sample based( as in chops and loops).

See Newcleus

See Mantronix

See Just Ice

See Afrika Bambatta

See Run DMC

See The roots( do you want more?) ..shiiiiiiiit

See The treacherous three

See the fearless four

See Kurtis Blow

See Grand Master Flash and the Furious five

LL Cool J's first album

Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill,Check Your head, Ill Communications, Hello Nasty

I can go on and on and on.


Drums being programmed with drum machines came before chopping and sampling beats with MPCs and Sp1200s.....

Sampling doing the original era was more for adding adlibs and effects to records, similar to what these electric beat makers are doing, taking bits and pieces here and there, not constantly using full songs s and looping ...


Sampling is a good tool, and I enjoy it, but hip hop is not limited to that, and it shouldn't be