not only is music not subject to fair use like every other medium, it's ass backwards
the only thing you can create with just a compulsory license and no approval is a cover. that license is predicated on your work NOT being transformative
tells you everything about the purpose
i dislike jpegmafia but the number of people mad at sampling is crazy
even if you're an intellectual property enjoyer (for some fucking reason), music copyright law is uniquely insane and was created like 40 years ago explicitly to prevent black artists from defiling white music
that's the reason he only has like 2 real deal Hit records though, its not like he broke the mold and made a bunch of timeless anthems despite the limitation
one thing you gotta give jay-z is he did it all by simply rapping extremely well which is something you cant say about his semi melodic contemporaries like wayne and drake or a semi melodic rapper-producer like kanye, singing gets you a lot of points in commercial music
damn no wonder Chinedu Enigwe AKA @sadhugold AKA Rhetoric Wallace AKA Emerald Ahymo AKA Emerald Odyss AKA Emerald Da Zappa AKA Emerald Jyah AKA Norm Rockwilder AKA Rhetoricjackson AKA Bangomanifold has so many aliases and can't show his face ⬇️⬇️⬇️ in public anymore
"people are finally having a laugh, its a breath of fresh air" bro an entire generation have internalized israel as an insuperable ontologically evil entity and benjamin netanyahu as an omnipotent malevolent archfiend that can be summoned with a wager of unwavering fealty