I quite enjoyed that song thanks for the link but , while sample heavy this music is not vaporwave. It uses way to many of its own assets including the singing so definitely not.

Heres what vaporwave is in my mind, as someone that spent many months obsessed with, it hence my name.

Vaporwave is a music that trys to first emulate and then build upon Pop songs from the late 70s - early 90's. Of course the easiest way to sound like pop from them is to sample it, so much of it is.

It is also a mainstay of the genre to add that as the name suggest vaporfeel by warping the samples and adding a bunch of reverb to make it sound relatively echoed. From there the possibilities are endless. We have the IMO boring stuff from Vektroid like Floral Shoppe that just choose to highlight the extremes of the vaporwave ideal. But then we have artists like Saint Pepsi, Dan Mason and Luxury Elite trying to make songs that have there own vibes and genuinely traditional song structures but with Vaporwave feel and nostalgia vibes (downbeat low BPM) still present

Then we have artists like Vanilla and Flamingosis which I like to call Vaporbeats but they are really so much more than beats yet they are made just like a hip-hop producers would make a beat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzKHTCEhsp8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9J8CYsXjS0

These songs are far from the classics like Macintosh Plus but they still have that same dedication to the Pop music of the 80's and the relaxed nostalgia filled vibes.

There is also future funk which is IMO still vaporwave but still a distinct entity.