when it comes to making beats I could think of at least 50 people other than Madlib whom I would want to take lessons from, or consider a teacher.
I sample from vinyl too, and mp3's t.v. ect...I dont need a teacher for that. People make too big of a deal about diggin' like it makes them intelligent or mystical or whatever the fuck. It's very simple, youre sampling from an ext audio source and then composing on your sampler. Dont make it out to be anymore complex than that cus it's not. Ive been making beats this way for 13 years. Before it became a fad.

since when is it all about choppin and stuff thought?? these are the dudes that helped created the the ways of beat making that we all know today, they were the progression, and there is more to beat makin than just choppin shit up and rearrangin it, and just cause blogs and youtube blow up sample sources, people start to realize that sometimes these dudes just don't chop, but madlib is like a music teacher man, he's a big reason why alot of us really do what we do and like what we like, he made me realize that i can learn the same shit off of other hip hop as i did off of him, he's like a musical curator you know, just cause everybody seems to ride his dick doesn't mean you can't appreciate the music he makes, he's schoolin us on the music of the past so that we can know and build on it