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KOOL & THE GANG ON DISCOVERING THE FUGEES & BEING ONE OF HIP HOP'S MOST SAMPLED GROUPS
Kool & The Gang have been making music for almost 60 years, and during this time the R&B funk titans have become one of the most sampled groups of all time.
As Hip Hop approaches its 50th anniversary, the group’s co-founder Robert “Kool” Bell sat down with HipHopDX to discuss being a key ingredient in rap’s global takeover, the tracks he thinks best sampled their work, and how the group helped discover some of Hip Hop’s biggest stars.
According to WhoSampled, Kool & The Gang have been sampled almost 1900 times, with the majority of those songs being by those from the world of Hip Hop — which Kool still finds mind-blowing to this day.
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