The Accompaniment / "Beat" (Rap)

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What determines whether a sample can be rapped over? Eg could you rap over the intro riff to MJ's "Human Nature"?

Have a variety of notes in your sample.

Example of a bad sample:
ATCQ's "Da Booty" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPYK2xfHNwo
- The melody in this sample doesn't really "move", and the notes are short so it's kind of hard to tell exactly what the notes are, which makes it hard to tell how they're changing over time.

Contrast that sample with ATCQ's "Electric Relaxation": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08JS5EqyBVU
- the melody in this sample moves a lot more