Easy.
When you own your music, you get to control who gets to sample it. Maybe you don't want a bunch of trash rappers threatening opps over a sample of your work
I have the Lord You Know CDQ.
DukeDaGod put out 2 compilations of all the stuff that couldn't get cleared in their original versions. Outside of an occasional loud ass GOD! GOD! sound, the records are intact. I know this because for the longest time on AHH, we wanted a CDQ version of Oh What A Night so when it finally dropped in 2011, it was like closure to a long journey.
Okay, at least a new generation of music is hearing the music, and people will dig for the sample to hear the original song, just like Jay-Z got that Heart of the City song played in a commercial simple because he used it in a song
The true victory of an artist is to have his work admired and appreciated, through sampling they can happen long after your gone and your heirs will never stop making of it, because people will always sample the song the next generation when the hip hop sound evolves
And that attitude is why music is dead, they wanna stop sharing it, people sample the music they crew up, but black people stop making music
Hip Hop is based off the music black people created in the pass, and is just processed into new form to obtain a certain feeling, which is hip hop
the break beat is the back bone of hip hop, it's the tight pocket of loop that gives you that ultimate hip hop feeling, that feel good energy, that power
Genre itself is defined by sampling, that's literally how it started, two turn tables and a mic
Looping the record is what the music is, finding that tight pocket in the recording, people don't understand what hip hop is and that's the problem
you got a bunch of half assed producers who think they are musicians because they mashed out some fisher price melody on a electric keyboard using the same 808 patterns for damn 15 years now