Behind The Beat

Every beat has a story. Behind The Beat digs up the history behind your favorite songs — the breaks they sampled, the songs they inspired, the covers and remixes that came after. SEARCH Type any song, even if you only remember part of the title or artist. Behind The Beat pulls from a massive database of documented samples, interpolations, covers, and remixes. IDENTIFY Hear a song and don't know what it is? Hit Identify, let it listen for a few seconds, and get the track — then see its whole sampling history instantly. EXPLORE Not sure where to start? Hit Explore for a random pick from music's most sampled, covered, and remixed tracks — a rabbit hole of hip-hop, funk, soul, and pop history. WHAT YOU'LL FIND • Beat Sampled From — the original recording this track's beat was pulled from • Song Sampled In — later songs that sampled this one • Melody Sampled From / Sampled In — interpolations, where a melody was re-recorded rather than sampled directly • Cover Of / Covered By — different artists' versions of the same song • Remix Of / Remixed In — official reworks and alternate versions Every result is ranked by popularity and dated, so you can trace a sound's lineage in order. Found something interesting? Share it as a clean image with one tap. Music doesn't come from nowhere. Behind The Beat shows you where it came from.