Your thoughts as EDM producers on yet another blatant hip hop rip off

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Posted by all-nite-freak on Sep-21-2007 22:23:

Your thoughts as EDM producers on yet another blatant hip hop rip off

fr.youtube.com/watch?v=d2iHAH-3938

get yo money is the track i would like you to look at. I cannot see Booka Shade get any credit on this anywhere i have serched. As Producers what is your take on this.

(I know this is not a question about production of sorts, but this might be the only place to keep a mature convo about it going on)

I am pretty sickened by this honestly. Have any of you ever been ripped of as blatently as this?

Posted by System101 on Sep-22-2007 00:20:

heartbreaker has a pretty obvious sample as well! can't name the song at the moment but listen to the intro.. thats despicable!

and yeah the booka shade ripoff is fucking disgusting as well..

Posted by echosystm on Sep-22-2007 00:50:

hip hop producers = ******s

Posted by ASFSE on Sep-22-2007 01:34:

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Originally posted by echosystm
hip hop producers = ******s

Posted by echosystm on Sep-22-2007 01:58:

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Originally posted by ASFSE

owned

(it was a joke... they can't ALL be gay... maybe only like 90%)

Posted by Kid_presentable on Sep-22-2007 03:07:

does this mean Booka Shade will be rich?

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Sep-22-2007 11:34:

They sample everything and anything and nobody cares but when they suddenly sample an EDM artist it becomes a big deal?

It's what they do. Live with it.

Posted by all-nite-freak on Sep-22-2007 14:34:

Mystery , I completely agree with you as far as the sampling everything part, but even you have to admit that usually some sort of creativity is applied to said sample. Some hip hop producers do this in a very effective way which albeit plagerism, still demonstrates some effort to add a different element to the sampling. This isn't the case for this song, he just decided to rap over Body Language as is, the only thing added was a guitar riff using the same melody. Either way, your responses seem to be always sampled from previous ones that you post so from here on out i shall dub you will.i.am mystery aka the redundant poster with nothing to say.

Posted by Watts on Sep-22-2007 14:53:

I doubt there is going to be any plagiarism in this case. Timbaland sampled some kid out of Finland who was a nobody; will.i.am, on the other hand, is very likely to credit these people because of their clout.

No big deal here.

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Sep-22-2007 15:08:

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Mystery , I completely agree with you as far as the sampling everything part, but even you have to admit that usually some sort of creativity is applied to said sample. Some hip hop producers do this in a very effective way which albeit plagerism, still demonstrates some effort to add a different element to the sampling. This isn't the case for this song, he just decided to rap over Body Language as is, the only thing added was a guitar riff using the same melody.

Seeing this guy's track record it was only bound to happen. Practically all his recent works have been directly sampled from something else. I don't see how this is any different (or how nobody seems to be moaning about the other tracks).

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Either way, your responses seem to be always sampled from previous ones that you post so from here on out i shall dub you will.i.am mystery aka the redundant poster with nothing to say.

Actually that would require me copying other people's posts. Fail.

Posted by T-Soma on Sep-22-2007 16:44:

I can't say I'm really bothered by these kind of things because its something that has always gone on, not just in music but in any creative artform. I know this is kinda stupid but take Shakespeare, one of the best known writters of all time, yet all his stuff was ripped off.
Daft punk, everyone knows most of there stuff was just looped samples from old 70s tracks.

Creativity comes in different forms and styles. I'm sure if Booka cared they would sue em or something.

Posted by Derivative on Sep-22-2007 17:13:

Re: Your thoughts as EDM producers on yet another blatant hip hop rip off

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Originally posted by all-nite-freak
I am pretty sickened by this honestly. Have any of you ever been ripped of as blatently as this?

Mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery.

I could say tonnes about plaigerism being lame but the truth is, I tend not to think my work is very good. So if someone were to copy me or indicated they liked my tunes enough to copy me, then in a weird kind of way, I'd be flattered by that.