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A History of Hip Hop Sampling with John Morrison and Josh Leidy is 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7 at Monmouth University in West Long Branch.

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We started doing the beats, and he started explaining to me how it works, the hip-hop industry. And I was like, ‘This is cool,’” he said. “Then we decided to write a song. I released it.