Cleared Hip-Hop Samples for Commercial Use
Public domain, CC0 & CC-BY — with a license certificate per download
Hip-hop is built on sampling — it's the one genre whose craft is literally recombining other recordings, which is exactly why clearance is its biggest headache. Cleared, hip-hop-ready material — drums, one-shots, melodic loops, and chops — lets you build beats you can actually put out.
What “cleared” means here
Every hip-hop sample in the Selekt catalog comes from a named, verified source — public domain, CC0, or CC-BY — not an anonymous “royalty-free” upload. Each download ships with a license certificate naming the source, the exact license, and any attribution required, and samples from less-authoritative sources are fingerprint-screened against 150M+ commercial recordings. So you can pair cleared loops with stems, drum one-shots, and tools to flip them into something both original and releasable — with documentation you can keep, not just a label that says “cleared.”
Built to flip, not just to browse
Cleared source is only half of it. Every track is analyzed for BPM, key, and mood, separated into stems (vocals, drums, bass, and more), and ready for the free browser tools — chop it, re-pitch it, build a beat in the Drum Kit, or re-voice a melody in Stem Lab. And modifying melodic loops is good practice anyway — it lowers the odds of an automated Content ID match (more in our guide to avoiding Content ID claims).
Browse cleared hip-hop samples
Listen, filter by BPM and key, and download with a certificate.
Open the hip-hop catalog → or explore the full cleared library →
Before you release
A few minutes of due diligence saves headaches later: how to verify a sample is really cleared, royalty-free vs public domain vs CC0, and screen your finished mix against 150M+ commercial recordings for a signed audit log.
