"There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy"

This quote by Beck is describing the practice of sampling in music production. Sampling is the process of taking a part of a sound recording and recycling it as an instrument or a sound recording in a various song or piece. Sadly, some people have abused this practice by taking whole hit songs and rapping over them without authorization from the initial artist or publisher. This has actually given publishers the opportunity to end up being greedy and require more cash for using their music. This has actually caused a great deal of debate in the music market and has offered sampling a bad track record. Beck is cautioning versus this practice and is encouraging individuals to use sampling responsibly and with consent from the original artist or publisher.