Sample Data from Annotations (Screenshot by Author) As mentioned before, Genius has great crowdsourced data for the samples on each song, so it was just a matter of gathering the links for the pages of each song on the album, looping through them, and scraping the sample information from each: The first step was generating a list of the samples from Late Registration. Below, I will demonstrate how the script works using Late Registration as an example, but if you want to jump straight into the code, you can find it on my GitHub. ![]() This, predictably, grew cumbersome after a while, so I wrote a script to automate the process. I began by searching the songs on Genius, finding the names of the samples and manually adding them to a Spotify playlist. Having listened through Late Registration countless times, I wanted to dive deeper into the music and explore the influences that West and co-producer Jon Brion rendered literal via sampling. Late Registration is filled with great samples from the aforementioned Heron track to Shirley Bassey’s classic “ Diamonds Are Forever,” which served as a theme song to the Bond movie of the same name. A great example is Kanye West’s “ My Way Home” off of his 2005 album Late Registration, which samples Gil Scott-Heron’s “ Home Is Where The Hatred Is” from his 1971 album, Pieces of a Man. Sampling in music, for the uninitiated, is the act of repurposing a piece of an existing song as part of a new song. ![]() ![]() Trade in for-loops and random samples for drum loops and soul samples IntroductionĪs an avid hip-hop fan, I have always been extremely interested in sampling.
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