ABOUT DJ KHALED'S 'STAYING ALIVE'...
Earlier this month, DJ Khaled shared his latest single, STAYING ALIVE , which interpolates Bee Gees classic with the same name . An interpolation is a recreation of a song in a different record: The artist reproduces the melody of the interpolated piece. This must not be confused with the sample , that consists on putting in a new song a snippet of a different record. The point is that, in the sample, you reuse part of another song in a new track, while, in the interpolation, you reproduce or replicate the interpolated song. Both techniques are very usual on hip-hop and rap, where rappers need melodies to their tracks and they get them this way. One of the most famous is 2PAC's sample of the hit by Bruce Hornsby and the Range, The Way It is in the social Changes. Getting now to DJ Khaled, the producer and DJ has interpolated Bee Gees 'Staying Alive' on his new single with Drake and Lil Baby, after his chart- success with Latto's Big Energy, which samples Tom Tom