The most sampled band
you’ve never heard of.
In 1973 a young soul group from Cincinnati recorded Ghetto: Misfortune’s Wealth for Stax. It sold almost nothing. Decades later its grooves turned up under Kendrick Lamar, Eric B. & Rakim, Digable Planets and dozens more. This is what happened to the people who made it.
Four episodes. Real voices.
Riffs on Riffs began as a show about sampling — a hit song traced back to the record underneath it. Season 3 followed that thread all the way down. Joe and Toby spent months with the surviving members and family of 24-Carat Black: how the band came together, what it cost to make the record, how it fell apart, and what it feels like to hear your own bass line on a platinum album that never sent a cheque.
It’s the show’s most-downloaded work, and the clearest example of what the two of them do: take a song seriously enough to find the people inside it.