Q-Tip Needle Dropping, As Kanye West and No I.D. Look On
When looping a beat used to mean doing the "needle-drop" technique.
“By 1977, many DJs had followed Kool Herc’s lead, none more notable than Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa. Although Herc was the first DJ to use turntables as instruments, it was Grandmaster Flash who took the art of hip hop DJing to the next level. Herc developed the style of elongating the break, but he used the “needle-drop” technique. That is to say, he dropped the needle of the turntable on the groove of the record where the break began.” From The Art of Sampling, 3rd Edition, p. 68
