For those with a passion for graphs, Jesse Kriss drops a Java based visual history of Hip-Hop sampling.  Both significant original works and their Hip-Hop versions are represented in the application.  By no means is it a complete history, but it still does a nice job of touching on some of the more important moments in recent times.

Play With The History of Sampling

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