Imagine writing one of the biggest hits of the 90s & not seeing a single penny in royalties.

[ThrobbingHood]

1 billion views later and he’s just started to receive royalties. SMH.

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Tags: Richard Ashcroft Allen Klein, The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, The Verve

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[jdubnyce]

22mins?
Coles notes

 

[85 East]

I'm actually working on a tik tok about this.

 

[Lieutenant Daniels]

Makes me wonder how many artist who had big hits are actually living off their songs years later.

I was listening to a host on Shade45 say he made $6 off streaming.

Shyt wild how you can have one of the most recognizable songs ever made and be broke as hell

 

[Kasgoinjail]

Woah this is interesting for real ☣ happens often I the music industry

 

[ThrobbingHood]

Bump

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

22mins?
Coles notes

He didn't clear the sample. Why are we crying over this like there are not a ton of rappers who faced the same shyt from cacs who stole from Black people then copyright the shyt. I like this song and remember it vividly. But they gambled and lost

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Woah this is interesting for real ☣ happens often I the music industry

Because people don't do their homework. Sampling by the era this song came out was being policed

Juice world or whatever that rapper was that sampled sting also got got like this.

 

[Soldier]

Sample laws are no joke

 

[Scottie Drippin]

22mins?
Coles notes

He didn't write the wrong. It was a sample. They didn't clear it.

 

[3rdWorld]

These cacs sampled just like Diddy does..

 

[ThrobbingHood]

 

[invalid]

Bittersweet Symphony was THE song of the 90's.

the most iconic song of the 90's.
shyt goes hard driving down lake shore drive in the summer with lake michigan wind blowing in your face and the chicago skyline in the backdrop.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

I automatically assume it was this song



That guy got robbed.

 

[null]

yes. you know it's true.