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yea you can download/sample whatever. you don't need to have it in your mind, like oh shit ima sample isaac hayes or al green etc. its good to go through there stuff tho, anyone you can think of, they all have good shit, its been sampled alot before, but for learning purposes its good to trek through them

but really its called diggin because you are searching for gold. you want to get stuff you don't know anything about as well, you want to get stuff you don't think ANYONE knows about. now with the internet if its on here chances are someones touched it at least once. but you never know, everyone hears songs different

think about how YOU want to flip it.

but for now just look for some 1 bar chops, when you can string some patterns together, make some cool loops, on your own, out of something you yourself found

then i can help you understand more intricate chops, so you can do more with the sample, making your own melodies from it and all that, and still keeping it crisp

and then when you understand how to make basically every timestretchable chop and can use them all when listening to a sample

i can get into more stab type sampling, like single sounds. if you try and do that now it only muddies the waters of the clean chops you can time stretch

like think of it this way

i'm giving you a puzzle with big somewhat easy to solve pieces, once you can do these puzzles enough where its not a problem, then you'll graduate to more complex puzzles with smaller pieces, and then you will graduate to the smallest most complex pieces

and then you'll be ready to create your own puzzles. meaning taking single sounds and layering them

but the best beats incorporate all of the above

you might hear a beat that is a 4 bar loop of a sample and think, damn that is pretty easy. but the drums could be chopped in 1/2 beats or even 1/4 beats and rearranged to make a whole new pattern, there might be string stabs over top etc.

but some of the best beats are simple loops