In the years since the apex of Sly & The Family Stone, his records have been sampled over 800 times, with everyone from A Tribe Called Quest to Kendrick Lamar wielding fragments of his imagination.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 14, 1995, California rapper Tupac Shakur broke records by becoming the first male solo artist to score a Billboard No. 1 ...