Why Xampled?

Ever since I heard Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight, with the bass line from Chic's Good Times, I've been a sucker for creative sampling. Apart from the occasional home-brew sampling experiment, I also like to collect original songs of well known samples. James Brown, Diana Ross, Patrice Rushen, Cymande, ... I've just got to have them on CD or vinyl.
So here I want to talk about the sampled and the samplers, the originals and the re-users, sometimes focusing on a certain artist, a genre, a trend or an example of exceptional skill. If I can find a way of legally and affordably offering sound bites, I will do that too!

I was going to start with Stevie Wonder, but eventhough I have over 30 covers of songs of his, I still have to do some research on actual sampling. The drums in Superstition are so cool, they must have been used somewehere.