Where I can get classic sounding hip-hop samples like in this piece? Any pack names?

This piece uses Uneek Sounds ones

 

best service hip hop sample packs... maybe

 

big citi loops. kryptic samples, initial audio, cartel loops, cymatics, zero-g, best service, big fish, all have releases. You can also look on Archive.org, dj rectangle records, "all the breaks" sample pack, Drum Broker, rhythm lab, touch loops, and so on. You have to look into all the various collections of old vintage breakbeats, instrument parts are easy to just make yourself. A good way to get good old vintage sounding stuff is just to make them yourself, because they will sound old but are newly created.

Instead of a turntable, now you can just use Youtube and Audio Hijack or some other program to record browser audio. Any degredation doesn't even matter, because you want lo-fi vintage sounding stuff either way. No packs are going to beat doing your own crate digging.

 

Suno is a good source of cleared samples if you don't want packs or something that someone already used. As @clone said, degradation is not a issue on those kind of sounds. If you want something HiFi, good quality, it's better not using samples at all and record your own instruments and VSTi.

 

You should not search for easy solution, because there's nothing like this.
Classic hip-hop is all about diggin' crates with vinyl records, searchin' for breaks and beats.
1965-1984 era records are a perfect and almost infinite source of original sounds for sample based music.

All sample packs are generic and goofy.

All samplepacks are gimmicks for WHACK hip-hop noobs.

 

If you want Boombap era style drums: Beat Butcha, The Alchemist, Cooking Soul, Shroom or The Kount sell packs and they sound great. Decap has hard hittin drums as well. Also Faith Monaco has great drum packs for modern era. Aj Hall has great break drum pack as well.

If you want electronic drums, aiming for sound design and learning a synth is your best option. Even free synths can craft a good subbass, kick, any complimentary ambient pad or even pluck. It is all up to you.

Hiphop producers are still diggin vinlys (mostly 70s soul jazz) for samples to chop. Other option is opting in to an online service such as tracklib or splice. Beat vibe is important and that mostly comes from sound selection.
Good luck

 

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tear it apart in your mind. what is that sample? a snare, a bass drum some vinyl scratches and a lofi synth.
what is the synth playing? about 5 notes. this shouldn't be hard to build from any basic sample kit. the synth you can create with reaper or ableton or acid or about any daw.

put the sample in you daw. add tracks imitating what you hear in the sample and create them in new tracks, add some reverb and delay
maybe a filter and bobs your uncle

you have your "new" sample and you learned something. now go make some more..

 

There are a number of video tutorials like this Groove3 Making Old School Samples with NI Plugins TUTORIAL. There is another for Logic, and probably more than that. Bit crushing, tape saturation, wow and flutter, pitch automation, and other techniques to make brand new loops you make sound like you sampled them from old records. Which is a nice way to get samples you can use without getting sued, de-monetized, or whatever else. Crate digging vinyl used to be lots of fun, going to the used record stores in various neighborhoods and rummaging through old dusty vinyl. Those experiences may be mostly gone, but you can at least make it sound like they aren't.

All the Breaks is a compilation of all the old funk breakbeats that have really been used, and some that haven't. Ape Breaks was one series of sample packs that was very popular and still has plenty of unused breaks. DJ Rectangle's The Ultimate Battle Weapon records have all the classic samples on them. The best ones are the yellow one, the green one, the grey one, and the white one. There is a thread on here about a archive.org torrent created by someone called Cyberyoukai (sp?) and the few hiphop ones in there are the real deal. One of them has most of the drop samples you will find on the Rectangle records. Another really good one is Bluewater Breaks. Even if you do not use the samples within, you can dig the artists other stuff from their catalog.

Who Sampled website does not contain files, but you can see what records were sampled by productions you liked. Then instead of using that particular song from the artist that got sampled, go through their catalog and look for more. It's pretty rare some band makes 1 amazing 4 bar loop worth sampling and never makes another. You will find other un-sampled bars. example: https://www.whosampled.com/Havoc/

No good hiphop tracks ever started with "send me a sample pack". Maybe they do now, but that's a good reason to ask for old ones. Because they didn't.

 

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were about to release audio upload soon at suno.. Get ready for game-changing sampling abilities! Music making will never be the same!

 

https://hiphopdrumsamples.com
best for me

 

@curtified I got some interesting results with suno and audioease speakerphone on old jazzy samples, I just haven't got time to put anything together..

 

Maybe old Zero-G Datafile, some of the samples in there are true classics, also E-MU stuff too.

 

AKAI and ASR sample libs were much more used than E-Mu. Like after the SP-1200, people forgot about them, or something. That is almost a fork in the road of sampling. They were competing for business for the E-MU EMAX kb's, with the S900-S1000 and MPC-60; and ASR-10. etc. AKAI for drums even if you had one of each

 

Good taste!

I'd like to add Tamuz and Tane to that list. Especially Tamuz dropped fantastic drum and drum loop packs

 

Never heard of Tamuz but I will check his sound, thanks alot.

 

if i'm not mistaken hiphop beatmakers would usually get their drums samples from old school funk records

 

I don't know if you want Classic Hip Hop, or if you want whatever that clip is. Hip Hop has always been a broad term, even if you add "Classic," so it'd help if you cited what you were looking for.
Ultimately, it depends on what you want the end result to be. If you want Classic Hip Hop in the strictest definition, stuff sampled from old Funk, Soul, and Disco records, mainly, and you don't want to clear any samples, I'd lean into a lot of the compositions by artists who have packs hosted by The Drum Broker, Polyphonic Music Library, Oasis Music Library, Treehouz Music, The Sample Lab, and Sauce Lab Audio (incidentally, Tane and Tamuz are associated with the last two, though you can find their work on The Drum Broker too.)
If you want stuff that sounds more like whatever that clips was, go for most any "Hip Hop" sample pack created in the oughts or the teens that has a corny-ass cartoon cover, or any sort of badly photoshopped bling, bitches, or guns.

Addendum: While there are definitely exceptions, if we're talking Classic Hip Hop, @MFSAKA isn't wrong.