Thomas Wuil Joo. A Contrarian View of Copyright: Hip-Hop, Sampling, and Semiotic Democracy. 44 CONN. L. REV. — (2012) As both a fan and a producer of sample-based music, I’m naturally sympathetic to Lawrence Lessig and the free-culture movement, a group of legal scholars advocating reforms to copyright law that would make it easier to [...]
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Saturday, September 18, 2010
Music blogs, magazines and cable channels like to run lists of the best albums of all time. Certain albums get listed again and again: Sgt Pepper, Pet Sounds, Highway 61 Revisited. If you were to compile the best albums as measured by how often they get sampled by hip-hop producers, the list would look very [...]
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Also tagged big daddy kane, blondie, digging the crates, epmd, eric b & rakim, fu-schnickens, funk, hammond organ, ice cube, janelle monae, krs-one, mary j blige, memes, mohawks, onyx, Sampling, soul, uk, wu-tang
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This post isn’t about Obama. I love Obama. I’m talking about a classic breakbeat, the opening few seconds of “Impeach The President” by the Honey Drippers, and the president in question is Nixon.
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Also tagged big daddy kane, biz markie, digable planets, digging the crates, drumming, eric b & rakim, funk, hip-hop, honey drippers, mick jagger, nas, nice & smooth, notorious big, Sampling, slick rick, soul, wu-tang
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