In an audience Q&A with Red Bull Music Academy, Public Enemy producer Hank Shocklee mentioned the MPC60 as one among several samplers that he used for drum sounds:

"Drum machines to me are not like – you know, I have never used one drum machine. I think that’s just like, you know, why handcuff yourself? I think that each drum machine brings a different characteristic to the table. So, you know, a 1200 is not the only drum machine, and you’ve seen a lot of articles that we’ve been quoted about using the 1200. No, the 1200 was one of them. The other one we would put drum sounds in the S-900 as well. We would have drum sounds in the MPC-60 and use. We would have a DDD-1. You know, we would use the Mirage and get the Mirage Ensoniq. You know, it all depends upon what we was trying to get across at that particular moment."

Prince Charles Alexander confirmed that Mary J. Blige used the Akai MPC60 on her album "My Life." He stated, "The MPC-60 was the hub. We would have our sequencer running in it, our sounds running in it, and I would hit play. The sequencer would come up and all our sounds would be going," as reported in the Red Bull Music Academy article, "Key Tracks: Mary J. Blige’s My Life."

According to Geoff Grace in this Gearslutz post, Brad Buxer had an original Akai MPC-60 drum machine

Per Sound On Sound, May 2005:

"It had been composed on an MPC 60 and the Emax sampler, the same one we used on Paul's Boutique."

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In the YouTube video titled "Studio Tour!" by Alex Ball, at the timestamp 38:28, Alex Ball is seen demonstrating the use of an Akai MPC60 sampler.

The two Macs are interfaced to the outside world with two Opcode Studio 3 units and a Studio 5. Hague has plenty of sound sources to drive with these. There's an M3R, a DX7II, two rack-mounted Roland Super Jupiter modules (with programmers), a Roland JD800, DS50 and U220, a Korg Wavestation A/D, and an Akai/Linn MPC60, plus a few oldies. Amongst the latter are a Korg MS12, his original Yamaha CS80, and an Oberheim OB8.

Used ca. 1989 at local studios, as mentioned in this March 31, 2021 Native Instruments blog interview.

What year did you start making beats? What was your gear and process like in the beginning?

I started making beats in 1986 with old Yamaha and Casio keyboards with drum sections. I didn’t do anything too complicated or good but it was my introduction to beats. One of my neighbors had an SK-1 (keyboard) they let me play with. After playing around with that, I started to make pause tapes using cassette recorders to create loops. I was able to make some decent sounding songs with some breaks and choruses. I got serious about making beats and began to go to studios in 1989. I didn’t have any of my own equipment yet so I used what was at the studio. There were some turntables and different little drum machines, a huge mixing console, an MPC60 and I think an Ensoniq EPS-16. This was all along with tape machines, effects, compressors and other outboard gear. I instantly gravitated toward the MPC and fell in love with what could be done with it. I eventually created a decent little pre-production studio in my bedroom. That’s where I taught myself how to scratch and DJ and I would eventually use these skills in my production as well.

Does the approach that you started off with still influence the way you compose now?

Yes, 100%. I come from an era where you would pre-produce things before going to the studio to do the actual recording. I didn’t know it at the time but my pause tapes were pre-productions that saved me time when working on my final productions in the studio. The joy of finding loops and imagining what to do with them is still very fun for me.

What piece of hardware or software elevated your production to a higher level and how?

MPC 60 in 1990, then the MPC 3000 in 1995.

In an audience Q&A with Red Bull Music Academy, Public Enemy producer Hank Shocklee mentioned the MPC60 as one among several samplers that he used for drum sounds:

"Drum machines to me are not like – you know, I have never used one drum machine. I think that’s just like, you know, why handcuff yourself? I think that each drum machine brings a different characteristic to the table. So, you know, a 1200 is not the only drum machine, and you’ve seen a lot of articles that we’ve been quoted about using the 1200. No, the 1200 was one of them. The other one we would put drum sounds in the S-900 as well. We would have drum sounds in the MPC-60 and use. We would have a DDD-1. You know, we would use the Mirage and get the Mirage Ensoniq. You know, it all depends upon what we was trying to get across at that particular moment."

At 19:20 in the Red Bull Music Academy interview, DJ Magic Mike states that he used the Akai MPC60.