sampling is not wrong, jesus christ were on a rap message board. Whats wrong is Kanye's horrible music and his arrogant personality.
"What makes Kanye (and all dope producers) great is that he samples different shit that you wouldnt really think to use to make a hip hop song... "
Prince isn't "differen't"
differen't shit? none of these choices are unusual and all of them have popular music videos. Most rap producers(def not all) are completely ignorant of picking unusual and underrated samples. They are so scared to touch anything that isn't funk/jazz/r&b, and most of these are relegated to very popular selections. Even within these small parameters, great music has been produced but imo much greater could be had when such stupid rules would finally be broken. Even a real connection to a genre like blues has never been fully explored.