Questlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson), having just released his autobiography “Mo’ Meta Blues”, was recently interviewed on the Colbert Report and traced the origins of Hip Hop music to a Cosby Show Episode.
In the episode the kids were involved in a car accident with Stevie Wonder and he invites them to his studio to make amends. He introduces him, and the world it turns out, to his sampler – the ‘Sinclavia’. From that moment on, the idea of sampling and creating beats out of sampled sounds bore the genre of music we now know as Hip Hop.