"Ashley's Roachclip" is an instrumental by funk group the Soul Searchers from the 1974 album Salt of the Earth on Sussex Records. A portion of the track from 3:30 to 3:50 contains a widely recognized drum break performed by Kenneth Scoggins, that has been sampled countless times in songs across several genres. Among the most popular songs that have sampled the drum break are "Paid in Full" by Eric B. & Rakim, "Hey Young World" by Slick Rick, "Run's House" by Run-DMC, "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" by P.M. Dawn, "Girl You Know It's True" by Milli Vanilli and "Unbelievable" by EMF.

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Sampling in music culture

A list of the samples is available on WhoSampled: Ashley Roachclip was a character on Cheech & Chong's 1972 album Big Bambu called Rebuttal: Speaker Ashley Roachclip.