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Amen Break

If you have 20 minutes, then you can watch this great video which “explains the world’s most important 6-sec drum loop.” A commenter on the video writes: “This was probably the most educational sixteen minutes I’ve spent all week.”

Anyhow, the name of the loop is “Amen Break,” and it was an integral part of the rhythmic genesis of hip-hop in the 1980’s, continuing on to spawn an entire sub-genre in the 1990s.

Hours after I learned about this ubiquitous drum beat, I heard it while working out at Lifetime. It lives on!

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