Hip-hop was built on samples, but still thanks for the respect'
not to mention one of the 5 songs I listed (Meet the Parents which some feel is his best song as well as Jay-Z's) as well as Lyrical Excercise Just Blaze does not sample at all (at least it's not credited) and most of the songs he samples aren't direct copies of the orginal. If you take a producer like Pete Rock (who many might feel was one of the KIngs of the early 90's) and compare a song such as AZ:Gimmie Yours (he produced) and compare it to the OG song he sampled (Minnie Riperton:Here We Go) it's a completly new song (mood, sound etc.) even though it contains elements of the orginal, it is not a direct carbon copy(such as LES prodcued track "Life's a Bitch" which samples The Gap Band's "Yearning For Your Love" almost directly) , let alone loop, of that song. It takes a clever man to be able to make something new out of something old, and Just Blaze is able to do that.