Kool & the Gang
USA (1969)
![Kool & the Gang from the cover of their debut self-titled album, 1969](https://i0.wp.com/www.needcoffee.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/kool-gang-1969.jpg?resize=770%2C655&ssl=1)
If you want to talk primary source material for songs with samples, this is one of the motherlodes. Eric B. & Rakim, NWA, Beastie Boys, DJ Shadow, Gang Starr…Who Sampled lists seventy-three songs that sampled this. And it’s easy to see why. It is funky as HELL.