I think you guys fail to understand, when you sample an original work(even if it's a royalty free original work ya boy made), it's a "sample", therefore it sounds like a sample.
Quit giving these guys all this credit. Both Khalil and Boi 1da "sampled" songs for those records. They were just royalty free songs that got the others involved a co-writing credit.
If Danny Elfman never got discovered and I grew up with him ripping his tracks to sample and make into my own, you guys would sit up here acting like I'm more creative, but since he is "on", when someone samples him, "it's just a sample" that's B.S.