The art of the sample is intertwined with the history of hip-hop, beginning in the 1970s, when DJs would cut bits and pieces of disco and soul tracks together while MCs rhymed over the beat.

Metric levels: beat level shown in middle with division levels above and multiple levels below. In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating event), of the …

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[ T ] To beat something that is going to happen is to take action before the thing happens:

syn: beat, hit, pound, strike, thrash refer to the giving of a blow or blows. beat implies the giving of repeated blows: to beat a rug. To hit is usu. to give a single blow, definitely directed: to hit a ball.

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3 days ago · […] the rise of embedding police into schools – so-called School Resource Officers (SROs), who are employed by the local police, but whose “beat” is a school. Those officers report to …

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BEAT definition: to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly. See examples of beat used in a sentence.