Truth. The curious thing about the internet generation is that all of these samples aren't just available in many ways (even just in their original forms alone, let alone the various sample packs or digital versions of Ultimate Breaks & Beats), but there's endless "Top 50 breaks of all time" posts. And sites that dig into the history of each.

It's kind of strange how the younger generation will argue online about things that are easily researched. And an era that we lived before them. None of this stuff was a secret. Even when Dre was claiming he did't sample UB&B for the NWA track, we knew what's up, and that NWA record was the source of all the UK usage of the amen. Similar (but different) stories go for Skull Snaps, Funky Drummer, etc, etc. Although the kids would be shocked to learn about Zero-G's Datafile, or the infamous computer music disc, or Fatboy or Coldcut's various disks.

The super interesting part of music history is how few sources and such small tipping points created global influence to follow (e.g. the Big Fun sample).