Sampling is the idea of taking a song, and repurposing it. Within sampling, there are two kinds of it. The first one is when digital audio is sent and stored by a computer which then samples that audio signal. The other kind is basically the idea of repurposing sound, where you take something that was already made, and add a bit of a twist to it. This has become a common theme in modern music as artists are now taking certain riffs, hooks, or lyrics from older songs, and adding that to their music. Sampling actually ties into copyright a bit because some artists, when they hear that another artist took a sample of their music, will take legal actions. Usually, there are two sides to the idea of sampling. There are the people who get angry when they find out a new song is sampled, and there are people who believe it doesn’t matter. There are current songs that have been samples of past ones, that have been more commercially successful than the original. So to me, the idea of repurposing typically comes with the idea that someone is making that sample better, or different, by adding their own flair to it.