Maybe someday i’ll figure out where this beat comes from. Notorious B.I.G. ““, most recently Gwen Stephanies “Luxurious” and to a lesser extent Common’s “Breaker 1/9″ use the same basic song. More details to come as I get lucky enough to find more details. Puff Daddy in the late 90’s brought the concept of sampling to the forefront of America’s popular culture. Puffy’s sampling was strong and he wisely chose to sample tracks that both did well in thier prime but yet were fairly cheap to pay royalties on. This was opposite of the british rock guys The Verve who sampled a smidgeon of some Rolling Stones song and lost everything he made off of the track “Bittersweet Symphony”.