Hip-Hop Beats, When Music Producers Steal...
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Sampling Or Stealing...
Sampling is a common practice among producers. But where is the line between sampling and stealing?
I found this interesting video running on the web about the famous hip-hop producer Timbaland. It seems he hasn't been very honest about the source of his inspiration, taking large portions of arabic (and other) music songs and claiming it to be pure original production.
It raises the question of todays music artist not putting alot of work into the music they deliver.
Timbaland charges around 100 000$ for one of his beats....that's alot of money, considering he doesn't really come up with the melodies.
List Of Songs That Where Sampled Without Permission
- "Do It" - Nelly Furtado (2006) Original song: "Acid Jazzed Evenings" Jane Suni (2000)
- "Don't know what to tell ya" Aaliyah (2001) - Original Song: "Batwanness Beek" Warda (1986)
- "More Than A Woman" - Aaliyah (2001) Original Song: Mayada El Hennawi - Aloly Ensy (1994)
- "Big Pimpin " - Jay Z (1999) Original Song: Abd El Halim - Hafez - Khosara (1960)
- "Exodus" - Utada Ikaru - (2004) Original Song : "Meshkeltek" - Aitha Al Menhali- (2002)
- "Wait For You" - Nelly Furtado - (2006) Original Song: "Asik Olan" - Muhlis Akarsu - (1998)
Some Links About The Controversy
My Horrible Beats
After seeing this video I thaught I could start making music myself ...with "samples" ... and charge a $100,000. Hey, this might be the begining of a new career! ;)
I made this using FL Studio. On second thaughts, I think I should abandon this music production thing. I'll let timbaland keep stealing. He does it better.
Try this one, it's good for beginners and cheap...
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Too Expensive...
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ACID Music Studio 7
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The beat isn't that bad; I would omit the hi-frequency sweeping note and be more creative with the synth tone.
Thanks a lot!
I havea question though: which is the "high frequency sweeping note?
I'm clueless when it comes to producing... but I could still guess the "synth note" you're talking about is the whistle... isn't ?
Ah man you aint that bad, I started off recently using FL and shit is difficult, I would change that alarm sounding thing though to something weaker.
Thanks for the feedback. FL studio is hard for real, but use reason and you'll think FL is just a piece of cake... anyway, with practice everything becomes easy i guess. Here's a website you might want to check out: http://www.beatsbybeats.com it supposed to open soon.
Im a sampler myself, and no i dont think it stealing, when i have sampled a beat and come to my final project, and someone listins to it, and they say wow that piano or whatever is awsome did u do that, i say no, I "sampled" it, fliped it added slicker drums, qweeked it out" i do not say that is me on the piano or whatever it may be, sampling is an art, taking peices of say. old jazz music that maby alot of people didnt like back then but had a good sounding part in it..... flippin that lil peice of greatness into say a hiphop beat that is just smooth and so fresh. and u call me a theif.....if in a hundred years down the road somone, diggs up a grey albums from some music store and find this so called hiphop (puttin in point of view that say they have come up with some new type of music) and listins to it ans say wow i realy like that tiny lil part in it, i think ill sample it, well thats ok with me, sample on my brother. im no theif im an artist
FreeMusic says:
2 years ago
PS: timbaland did not give any credits to the songs he "sampled" from...