Impersonation is a bit different. I wasn’t thinking about men with guns. I was referring to the current music copyright and royalty laws that are upheld by gro

Impersonation is a bit different. I wasn’t thinking about men with guns. I was referring to the current music copyright and royalty laws that are upheld by groups like RIAA. You can legally sample another artists music, even without their permission or knowing. However, they have to be given credit, and everyone inline that was involved with the original song composition get a royalty. An example of this was Jay-z’s 99 problems. Somewhere in the 90’s, Too Short mentioned to Ice T that “he had 99 problems, but a B wasn’t one”.. Ice T thought that was slick and wrote a song. A couple years later, Rick Rubin and Jay-z borrowed that hook and put out a hit. Ice T said that he didn’t know they had recorded the song, and he only found out when he heard it on the radio. He said it was all cool though because he received writing credits, and royalty payments as a result.