I saw a video about popular/influential/most-used samples the other week[0] and it mentioned James Brown becoming aware of sampling (I guess mid-late 90s?) and specifically making sure that anything he thought might be sample-able was "clean" from that point on.
[0] GFL finding anything in YouTube history / search these days hence no link. Wasn't from Synthet, I don't think.
[0] GFL finding anything in YouTube history / search these days hence no link. Wasn't from Synthet, I don't think.