Video: World's Most Important Six-Second Drum Loop

This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the "Amen Break" a six-second drum sample from the B-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music. A six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures