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Remember that 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Samples Of All Time list Complex.com put out recently?  It was great not only because of the songs curated, but also because it used a flash-based player that allowed you to listen to every song listed in its entirety.

I did some snooping through the Complex’s source HTML code.  Turns out that the flash player actually uses high quality mp3s for each song, but those mp3 links are purposefully hidden.

I’ve painstakingly gone through the source code of the entire sample list (50 pages worth!) and fished out the direct links to ALL of the full length mp3s.  I then took that data and created a web page which lists all those links.  You can access it here and directly download all 50 of those wonderful songs.  You can do it in one click if you use Firefox with the down them all addon.

I AM A HUGE NERD AND YOU ARE WELCOME, INTERNET!

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    Apparently the old adage ‘knowing how the world works is...knowing how to work
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    50 mp3s for frees
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    Boom goes your speakers!
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