Using folk instruments, hip-hop samples, along with relatively inexpensive folk vocals imported from Punjab, Punjabi folk music was able to abolish Bhangra music.

One collaborator, P*nut, dips into hip-hop samples, but barely hints at funk.

Galactic's new album, "Ruckus" (Sanctuary), is produced by Dan the Automator, who stirs in some hip-hop samples and echoey effects.

Both songs featured prominent classic hip-hop samples, sampling Nas' The World Is Yours and Lord Finesse Hip 2 Da Game respectively.

You can recognize bits of the opera in the background, a hip-hop sample of Bizet.

The punching-bag beat of house music drives the orgasmic "Throb"; hip-hop samples and funk turn up in "You Want This" and "New Agenda."

The Ohio Players had hits in the 1970's with "Skin Tight" and "Love Rollercoaster," grooves so lean and efficient that they're still turning up in hip-hop samples.

Employing hip-hop samples, jazz riffs sung by Jordan Knight, and defensive rhymes by Wahlberg, "Games" was a dramatic departure from their previously clean cut sound.

When he's playing keyboards, he also mimes to the backing track with video-ready moves; he knows every automated handclap and hip-hop sample by heart.

The vibraphonist Roy Ayers has built a career on sleek pop-jazz grooves that have lately found a second life as hip-hop samples.