Editing Galt MacDermot (section)

==Samples and other use==
MacDermot's music is popular with collectors of [[jazz]] and [[funk]]. Working with jazz musicians such as [[Bernard Purdie]], [[Jimmy Lewis (musician)|Jimmy Lewis]] and [[Idris Muhammad]], he created pieces that prefigured the funk material of [[James Brown (musician)|James Brown]]. In more recent decades, his work became popular with [[Hip hop music|hip hop]] musicians including [[Busta Rhymes]], who sampled "Space" from MacDermot's 1969 record ''Woman Is Sweeter'' for the smash-hit "[[Woo-Hah!! Got You All in Check]]", and [[Run DMC]], which sampled the ''Hair'' song "Where Do I Go?" in its Grammy Award-winning "[[Down with the King (song)|Down with the King]]".<ref name="Official" /> [[Handsome Boy Modeling School]] ("The Truth"), [[DJ Vadim]], [[DJ Premier]] and [[Oh No (rapper)|Oh No]] have all sampled the same segment from "Coffee Cold", from ''Shapes of Rhythm'' (1966).<ref>{{cite web|website=CBC|url=https://www.cbc.ca/music/how-canadian-composer-galt-macdermot-unwittingly-became-rap-royalty-1.6102281|title=How Canadian composer Galt MacDermot unwittingly became rap royalty|first=Jesse|last=Kinos-Goodin|date=July 21, 2021|accessdate=March 20, 2023}}</ref>

Scottish electronica duo [[Boards of Canada]] used a loop in their track "[[Aquarius (EP)|Aquarius]]" (''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'') which was sampled from MacDermot's song of the same name from the 1979 soundtrack of the film [[Hair (musical)|''Hair'']].<ref>{{cite web|website=MusicRadar|url=https://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/the-16-best-uses-of-a-sample-ever-362362|title=The 16 best uses of a sample ever|first=Ben|last=Rogerson|date=January 27, 2011|accessdate=March 20, 2023}}</ref>

As part of his Special Herbs series, rapper [[MF DOOM]] sampled three MacDermot songs from ''Woman Is Sweeter'': "Cathedral" for his song "Pennyroyal", "Space" for "Cinquefoil", and "Princess Gika" for "Styrax Gum".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metalfacedoom.com/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120906071645/http://www.metalfacedoom.com/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=September 6, 2012|title=MF Doom|publisher=Metalfacedoom.com|access-date=September 27, 2014}}</ref> "Cathedral" is also sampled in [[Westside Gunn]]'s "Dear Winter Bloody Fiegs" for his 2015 mixtape ''Hitler Wears Hermes 3''. In 2006, rapper and producer Oh No released an album produced completely with MacDermot samples, titled ''[[Exodus into Unheard Rhythms]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stonesthrow.com/ohno/|title=Oh No|publisher=Stones Throw Records|access-date=September 27, 2014}}</ref>