I use a lot of vocals and top loops. Like smash them with a vocoder and granulize heck outta them. Makes for lush dub stabs.
I also been using more texture samples ever since I got my head round pigments sample engine. There’s only so many cool sounds in my world I can do justice with my cheap zoom handy mic.
I’m a big fan over layering snares with a single syllable vocal chop, bit of reverb. Thank you, ma’am!
I never use loops as a basis for a rhythm or melody as they’re things I add after I have a solid concept down.
I also dl a lot of kicks. I have kick2 vst to get me started but sometimes I’ll replace it with a sample part way through if it’s not cutting it. Claps, snares etc. Mostly stuff that you can’t really get the widest pallet going through synthesis.