In class we discussed copyright sampling and hip hop. While I know that sampling has been one of the building blocks for hip hop, I didn’t realize how many songs really aren’t original. As mentioned, music is way less original than we think. We listened to the power puff girls, who sampled a James Brown song for their theme song, which I had no knowledge of. In this post sampling era, can we even expect originality anymore? This made me question some of my favorite artists. This also made me look on the other side of the coin; is it a talent to take a sample and create something entirely new?