On her albums, Ms. Stone uses hip-hop trappings like drum samples, synthesizers and guest rappers.
Gospel influences and trap beats trade off with samples and multiple guest spots on a record that often sounds like an attention deficit disorder writ large.
On albums they use samples, studio musicians and guest stars; on tour they bring a band, a high-tech video installation and a parade of singers, male and female, from places including Argentina, Brazil, Guyana, Iran and Jamaica.
Like a hippie born too late, Ms. Stone, 24, has delved into 1960s and '70s funk and soul, sometimes mixing them with the samples, programmed beats and guest rappers of hip-hop.
Not much, I'm afraid: It was definitely a Wu-Tang Clan album complete with kung-fu sounds, movie samples, and, yes, a guest appearance by Cher.
By the late 1990s, he was being criticized for watering down and overly commercializing hip hop, and for using too many guest appearances, samples, and interpolations of past hits in his new songs.
However, with taut and timely rhymes, twisted samples and an eclectic roster of guests that include Andre 3000, Kendrick Lamar and Elton John, the group sounds more vital today than ever.
The dance-floor remix with samples or guest performances by international musicians has become a subgenre in itself.
Sampling of guest conformations and identification of the global minimum conformation could therefore be done at a relatively fine granularity.
Guests will get lots of delicious samples and no awkward Lady and the Tramp moments.
