You're acting impatient like I'm not understanding you, I am completely understanding what you are saying, and I have from the very beginning. You do not think an up and coming rapper should use sample based production to rap on to put out for free (unless your very specific conditions are met, as if Johnny Blazeguns up the street can call up the owners of the isley brothers masters and ask for a quick favor). I am saying that is not hip-hop and some fukk shyt. I should be able to take your boy dee 1's song, strip his vocals, rap on it and put it out for free. His producer shouldn't be able to come at me LEGALLY. If he wants to go another route that's fair. It's not me that's not understanding it's you. Call it miscommunication but i don't appreciate you sighing and huffing and puffing through internet smileys like I don't understand what you're saying.
You are correct, that is the basis of this law suit. That is not the scope of this lawsuit though. The scope is using someone elses work on a music project put of for free and whether those should be paid for or not.
Oh... I know you get what I'm saying. You do. That's my bad to sound condescending. But you're using a point that is not hip-hop at all. If a person put in hard work to make a beat, get the okay to use a sample, put vocals on it, mix it, then put it out...
Why can't you as an artist do the EXACT same thing? Why should you take a song that someone else worked hard on and put it out just because you want to rap?
Do you know how lazy that sounds? Just remake the beat and tweak it if it's that serious. Put in your own work just like everyone else has.
And no... the producer can come at you if you blow up off of that song that you didn't ask about. The industry just has everyone thinking ass backwards on this.
And if Finesse goes to court and wins... well then it's time for rappers to get REALLY original or start getting that money right for samples. Hell, that could show us who's really about this hip-hop life and has the creativity and originality to do it and who needs to hang it up.