About This Sample
Clyde Stubblefield's drum break on James Brown's 1970 'Funky Drummer' is the most-sampled drum pattern in recorded history — a six-second pocket that defined boom-bap, golden-age hip hop, and house music. For '0 to 100 / The Catch Up' (2014), producers Boi-1da, Vinylz, and Frank Dukes interpolated the swung, ride-cymbal-heavy feel of the Stubblefield break and rebuilt it under Drake's bar-marathon flow, then beat-switched into a slower second half that interpolated JAY-Z's 'Lucky Me' cadence. The track was released as a non-album single in summer 2014 and earned two Grammy nominations including Best Rap Performance — a victory lap during the lull between Nothing Was the Same and If You're Reading This.
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