The reason I ask is that a small percentage of people are really offended by samples. They hear something they recognize from another song and they hate it.
I suppose I can understand (or try to) people not liking samples: they expected something different; they don't understand what its doing in the song -- this big cognitive disjunction that maybe you can only deal with if you have a certain amount of understanding of electronic music; Maybe they feel like they're being left out of a big in joke -- I certainly get a laugh out of those really weird obscure samples that I recognize from some old movie, TV show, other song, etc.
they don't like "jam" bands, their haircuts are ten to twenty years out of date,
I don't like "jam bands", and my haircut will soon be smack dab in the middle of the 70s if I don't get it cut soon. But I like samples. reed