3. Mark Ronson is a British musician, DJ, singer, and record producer, but let me go ahead and simplify things for you by telling you he is the guy from the Uptown Funk video with Bruno Mars. Chances are, if you stop at a red light only to see some high school kids cutting a rug in the car next to you, it is probably to Uptown Funk. But lest you think Mark is merely the muse of rhythm challenged kids across this nation, you might want to hear his take on “sampling” as it is known in the industry. For he argues it is not the theft spawned by a lack of creativity you might have envisioned. But rather, it is the injecting oneself in the story and music of another to tell it from a unique and unheard vantage.