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Bringing up Weird Al is doubly interesting, because he asked for permission from both the recording company and Coolio to parody Gangsta's Paradise. Though the
by zdragnar 3y ago
Bringing up Weird Al is doubly interesting, because he asked for permission from both the recording company and Coolio to parody Gangsta's Paradise. Though the recording company agreed, Coolio refused permission.
I would have sworn that I'd heard Weird Al had been misinformed and believed that he did, in fact, receive permission, but I'm not seeing any evidence of that. Either way, the most Coolio could do is write a diss track, though he later came to regret not supporting it from the beginning.
All of this is made even more ironic since Gangsta's Paradise is itself a very obvious reworking of Stevie Wonder's Pastime Paradise
- somenameforme 3y agoI just listened to Pastime Paradise. That's wild man. I assume Coolio was required to get permission for that, because, that's a VERY obvious reworking. I never understand music IP law, like how Queen was able to sue Vanilla ice because of one 7 note chord in Ice Ice Baby: Queen, Under Pressure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a01QQZyl-_I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a01QQZyl-_I Vanilla Ice, Ice Ice Baby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE Yeah those 7 notes are identical, but that's a pretty substantial reworking of everything else.