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The article seems to be quite a bit disingenuous in mixing hip-hop (where samples and beats are supposed to get recycled and the focus is on the lyrics) with th
by generationP 3y ago
The article seems to be quite a bit disingenuous in mixing hip-hop (where samples and beats are supposed to get recycled and the focus is on the lyrics) with the rest of commercial music (which lives and dies by its melody). A rapper stealing a 5-second sample from a metal band is not the same as a ripped-off (whether legally or not) rock song.
- jtode 3y agoYou're still treating it like it's art. It's just Content now. You might as well be contrasting a Dubble Bubble wrapper to a Bazooka wrapper and talking about the importance of the colour blue to Bazooka's dominance in the Age 3-7 market.
- generationP 3y agoMaybe, but a dozen examples from hip-hop won't convince me.
- rchaud 3y agoHip-hop is commercial music. It's the number 1 genre in pretty much every country today. Less commercial hiphop such a a Tribe Called Quest aren't remotely as popular, despite eschewing samples in favour of live instrumentation. Things are changing. Remember when you could read every newspaper in the world online without a paywall? Dr. Dre wouldn't have made a cent from The Chronic today, half of the songs feature melodies lifted directly from '60s and '70s soul and funk.
- williamcotton 3y agoTribe sampled lots of music. Maybe you’re thinking of The Roots?
- coldtea 3y agoParent does say it's not, and this is not what his argument based on anyway. He says they shouldn't mix it "with OTHER commercial music" not as in "because hip hop is not commercial music", but because hip-hop, while still commercial music, has its own rules regarding copying or sampling parts of songs.