This is a brilliant twenty minute video that narrates the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the B-side of a chart-topping single from 1969 by The Wilsons.

This sample was pivotal in the development of early hip hop and sample-driven electronic and popular music, including genres such as drum’n'bass and urban today.

This drum loop, the “Amen break” – a six-second clip, gave birth to the music that prototypical for several subcultures, and has been used by everyone from NWA to Nine Inch Nails and Pharrel Williams.

Nate Harrison’s 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, copyright, and overall – the history of a remarkable music clip.