it really all depends, if you look at Dilla, he's used samples from all over the place, and used many in one track, the fact that most of the producers use one track is because they want to get that same vibe from the original record rather than be creative. I couldn't mess around with my samples like sound bombers(Public Enemy's in-house Producers) to make the sound collage, but I didn't much knowledge on diggin' nor the money to spend on Old records I didn't enjoy listening to.......I wanted some weird sounds, but I didnt' want to spend all my dough on lousy records.........

that's when I taught myself how to chop records out of pause tapes. My little brother first did it on his own tape recorder, but nowadays, I can do it on my own computer. I like the MPC becuase it helped me chop up beats which was, I thought, an unknown craft, until I'd heard gangstarr's "Give credit where credit is due" and they were playing the Bob James Track, and I recognized it. I knew then that what I had venutred into was choppin'. You can create your own sound by choppin', you own melodies. most producers back in the days were just using loops, which is pretty simple by todays standards. but one sample is all you need if you can flip it to the point that a rapper would want to spit to it.