Royalty-Free Hip Hop Samples that will elevate your music
Sitting in the studio and starting a hip-hop beat using drum loops, a soulful melody or an age-old sample, is a great way to spark inspiration and get your creative juices flowing.
However, finding a sample library that makes moves you in that way, isn’t the easiest task.
No one likes searching through thousands of samples to find one that hits, that you can import into an MPC or a DAW and start making beats.
Here is a list of the best hip hop sample packs to take your music to the next level.
1. Urban Keys
Urban Keys by Your Local Musician is a sample pack designed for hip hop production, which features 30 royalty-free samples and 30 midi patterns.
Inspired by artists like J Dilla, Jake One, J. Cole, and even Drake, this pack is a great addition to your music production arsenal.
2. TYGER
TYGER by SMEMO Sounds is a great sample pack for modern hip hop and trap music, as the name reveals, the sounds are inspired by rapper Tyga, as well as other artists such as G-Eazy, Offset , Cardi B, DJ Snake, J Balvin, and many more.
Inside you will find 5 construction kits, 81 loops and 69 Midi files, which are all key and BPM-labelled.
3. Stoner Season (Vol .1)
Stoner Season (Vol. 1) by Cartel Loops is a pack filled with outstanding loops and samples, with 113 files total, you’ll enjoy 53 drum breaks, 28 melody loops, 10 vocal samples, 14 FX, 69 MIDI files and 76 one-shots.
Suitable for everything from Hip Hop, Trap and even Drill music, this sample pack will for sure have ever music producer cooking up amazing hip hop music.
4. CODEINE Kits
Codeine Kits is fully loaded with modern hip hop sounds that are inspired by the biggest artists of the 21st century including Lil Pump, Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, Drake, Post Malone and many more.
Featuring 5 construction kits broken down into 65 wav files and 45 midi files, this sample pack from SMEMO Sounds would be a fine addition to your sample collection.
If you need a hardcore sound, then this kit is a great one to satisfy that itch.
5. Indie Rock Guitars (Vol. 1)
Though designed for Indie Rock music, as the name persists, I would feel amiss if I didn’t include this pack in this list. Filled with 41 instrumental loops, this pack would be a great accompaniment to most modern hip hop/rap tracks coming out in the 2020s and beyond.
Produced by Shrike Media, this pack is broken down into 5 groups arranged by tempo, starting from 87bpm to 150bpm.
If your goal is to make unique hip hop beats, i think you’ll find something special in this collection of loops, its one of my favourites on the whole marketplace.
6. XO Drum Kit
Inspired by The Weeknd, NAV, Belly, Sal & Cash and many more, The XO Drum Kit is one of the largest kits on this list, with 700+ sounds, it will send producers and beatmakers into a hyperdrive of creativity.
Broken down, the kit features, 250 Kicks, 250 Snares, 170 Hi-Hats and 40 percussion sounds, this kit gives you all the sounds you need to start beat making right now.
With this many high quality samples and loops, there’s not much more you could need out of a drum kit.
7. Sweet Lo-Fi Melody Samples
The third instalment in a mini-series of melody packs from Your Local Musician, Sweet Lo-Fi Melody Samples is for the producers who want to make sweet lo-fi hip hop.
Featuring 5 meticulously crafted melody loops plus STEMS and MIDI files, this pack is made to be simple but packs a lot of inspiration.
8. M A G M A – Heavy Drum Design
M A G M A by Hyrdatek is an amazing hip hop drum kit, that isn’t just one singular kit, its 5 kits, 100 one-shots, and 80 processed loops that are suited to not only hip hop, but also trance, breakbeat, dubstep and experimental.
All of the drum sounds and loops have been carefully processed through a custom FX chain that gives the sounds a character that you won’t be able to find elsewhere.
9. BADA$$
BADA$$ by SMEMO Sounds is a sample pack with hip hop loops inspired by modern stars such as Future and Playboi Carti, with samples that are ready to be imported into an MPC and flipped into something unique, this pack will inspire any producer that loves to work with samples.
10. BOOMBOX
BoomBox is one of the best sample packs on the platform, Featuring a huge collection of drum samples from over 70 classic drum kits as well as loops, 30 midi patterns and 14 chopped samples that are all designed to ensure that you can make the best hip hop music possible.
If ever there was a kit made for cookin soul BoomBox is the one.
11. Warm 808’s
Warm 808 Bass Samples is the first-ever sample pack released on Your Local Musician and one of the most popular, containing over 500 808s for FREE.
Made using modern sound design techniques, such as VST synthesizers like Massive X, and Serum as well as samples that are recorded and processed using foley techniques.
Perfect for creating face-melting trap samples and hip hop sounds, giving you endless possibilities to create foundational layers in your music, Just add synth lines, a dreamy piano, synth loops or even guitar loops and you’ll be on your way to creating the best hip hop track you can.
All of the sample packs featured within this list contain 100% royalty-free samples, that you can use without interruption.
With 17 Years music production experience, George Matthews is the CEO of Your Local Musician, he also makes music under the name Grimmm and releases Lo-fi music.
