The Best Hip-Hop Mashups From The Millennium
Considering how important and pervasive sampling has always been in rap, it’s no surprise the genre is a perfect fit for mashups. When it comes down to it, hip-hop essentially was just a mashup at its inception— DJs would loop breakbeats from well-known funk and disco songs and MCs would rap over them, creating something new out of something familiar (i.e., what any good mashup should do). As the free distribution model of sharing music was slowly turning into the norm and audio editing programs became more easily accessible to the average person, we saw a boom in the creation of mashups in the mid-2000s that's continued on to this day.
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