Jazz keyboardist Bob James, best known for creating the theme song to the TV show Taxi, likely rivals James Brown as the most sampled artist of all time, with his compositions appearing in songs from Cee-Lo Green, DJ Jazzy Jeff, N.W.A., Run-DMC, Beastie Boys, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Heavy D, Mary J. Blige, and dozens of others.
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