Radical revisions of songs

Jay Z does an amazing remix of the old song "Forever Young" in his album Blueprint 3. This completely changed the rap game because it changed the style of rap forever. Splicing together different songs makes for a unique sound that many people found interesting. It draws a different crowd together. People of old generation were wowed that there music was being modernized into something that the current generation was listened to. Other artists like Pit Bull also jumped on the bandwagon by doing songs like "Dont stop the  Party." This revolutionized everything.

People like Lil Wayne also used beats from DOA. This brought in beats from old songs that many people had no idea would mix with other songs. Mix tapes began to use other people beats to make songs sound radically different. Hoodie Allen used Words of Wisdom to splice oldies beats with his song to give it a distinctive sound. Lil Wayne uses this technique again when he changes Kanye's song "All of the Lights."
Some peopleuse other beats without even knowing it. Vanilla Ice was caught in a a controversy when he sampled the song "Under Pressure" for his huge it "Ice Ice Baby." Even though he completely denied the claims that he stole the song from others,  he was still heavily scrutinized. Sampling and reusing beats have become a huge part of Hip Hop this generation.