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Writer/publisher/recording artist. Co-Founder, Superchamp Books. Founder: BeatTips. Books: The Art of Sampling and more. [email protected]

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@Tico_Romao Copy! Just replied.

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@Tico_Romao Tico, check your email.
Time sensitive. Thank you!

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@John_Liberator The rise of hip hop DJing is far less about music funding cuts and much more about the shift from live bands to DJs as the primary form of music entertainment at clubs and other venues.

Thus, for some DJing became a more viable employment path than *traditional instruments.

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@JLeslieMonique When a sample is cleared, there are two sets of copyrights that must be cleared: The sound recording copyright *and the music publishing copyright.

The sound recording wasn’t sampled; no need to clear it.
But the music publishing copyright still must be cleared in *this case.

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1/ Re: Kendrick Lamar’s “The Heart Part 5” and Marvin Gaye’s “I Want You” —

It’s NOT a sample.
It’s a *replay and an *interpolation.

A *replay is when musicians “replay” the music, essentially make a cover version (or parts thereof) of the original song. That’s not *sampling.

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@NekketsuHado You can’t match it with the original song because it is *not a sample of the original song (sound recording).

It’s a *replay/*interpolation. Hence, the “speed” is at the pace of the modern-day musicians who *replayed the song with *their skill-set, techniques, and minor tweaks.

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4/ So listen to the hook on “The Heart Part.” It’s NOT the actual hook from the Marvin Gaye song “I Want You.”

It’s an *interpolation — Kendrick reshaped the context and it’s sang slightly different.

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3/ Re: the *interpolation being a slight change of the original chorus, think Nas singing “STREET dreams are made of…”

“Street Dreams” is an interpolation of the Eurhythmics song “SWEET dreams.”

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@profblmkelley Extra special congratulations!
You deserve it.

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12/ Dinah Washington trusted Ruth Bowen, another Black woman in business, at a time when others sought to partner only with white booking agents who typically boxed Black music artists in and narrowed their career arcs, never believing they could fill the same venues as whites.

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Between Billie Holiday and Aretha Franklin, there was Dinah Washington.
🧵

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11/ Dinah Washington’s trailblazing work and insistence that Black music artists have the same opportunities to perform in big arenas is one of the reasons Black music artists are able to perform at bigger performance venues today.