100% this. Because I'm a masochist, I let it run through 128 random slices. Took maybe 15 mins (wasn't timing or anything). Definitely deserved the payoff at the end to hear the whole thing.

I anticipated this problem and increased the BPM to get through it in about 30s to see if it'd be worth the time haha.

If you never play the original sample, you never have to worry about royalties.

:rollsafe-think-about-it:

Funnily enough, there's a drum loop that's also frequently sampled in electronic music from a track titled "Think (About It)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_(About_It)

> If you never play the original sample, you never have to worry about royalties.

Even if you do, you don't.[0]

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34785551

If I’d known, I would have contributed.

Alas it would have been too late for Gregory Coleman himself.

Is there a statue of him somewhere?

You don't know it by heart even yet, after all the time it's been in countless songs?

I haven't heard it in the original order many times!

The unshuffled song: https://youtu.be/qwQLk7NcpO4 :)

(Same here - though at least so I learned about the Amen Break.)