Advice for sampling

[Dariel!]

When sampling a song what exactly do you guys listen for? Words? Drum loops? or ways you can flip the words in a creative way?

[ego killer]

i listen for good parts to chop up, like hot orchestral or brass licks with strong individual hits, and good parts to loop.

[Blackmoore5050]

I look for whatever i can use. I don't have a set thing to look for.

[BeatGenerals]

Yeah i look just for little open sections with interesting instruments over them, i usually make my sampled beat more towards the epic sounds, so a lot of orchestral stuff catches my ear.

[Dr.Strangelove]

Words? Drum loops? or ways you can flip the words in a creative way?

All of the above, and more.

Sampling is tricky to explain. I try to think about taking a small piece (or pieces) of a song expanding it into something dope an MC could go over. You can use pretty much anything that catches your ear. It helps to get on WhoSampled and check out how some hot beats were done. On the real tip though- there's like a million ways to flip samples

edit: the beat in my sig is all samples

[K-TO]

breaks or parts without/little-to-no drums

[Phiend]

Dude whatever sounds good to your ears, use it.

[Lifeadeath]

Usually I search for either drums only or instrument samples. I can very quickly hear if I'm able to use the sample or not.

[Sunni Kai]

As others have said, sample any section of audio which sounds good to you. The more you do this, the more you'll realize what will and won't work.

[Dariel!]

Thanks a lot guys for your advice and to @Dr.Strangelove I will definitely check out that site. They have the sample's listed for so many songs.