What's yall opinion on "sample snitching"?

[Drip Bayless]

Notice a lot of dudes get real heated when you comment on a youtube video or a soundcloud song telling others the name of the song that was sampled. And a lot of dudes hating on websites like whosampled. shyt had me a lil bit surprised, I mean I could understand if these were artists who were just starting to come up so they hadnt seen any real bread yet. But these are all underground artists who mainly do this. Like boy nobody is gon sue you cause I told mfs you used a Wes Montgomery sample on a video with 5,000 views

Also, the artists who you sampled from deserve compensation whether you like it or not
I ain't saying they not doing people dirty some of these artists is greedy and taking like 80%, but if a mf sampled my shyt was angered just by people giving me credit, I'd definitely feel some type of way

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

I never felt ashamed of what i sampled.
As long as the result was original.

 

[Donald Trumps Twitter]

Using a sample to make original work shouldn't be frowned upon, as long as the sound is easily distinguishable and unique.

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

I think its because nikkas don't want anybody to take the sample and flip it better than they did.

but fukk it. If I hear a dope beat and know the sample, I'll prolly mention it too. That's just appreciation imo.

 

[SchrodingersStrapped!]

I never got that...I always saw it as homage... it really is an art...

It takes a command of music theory and genre sensibility to bring a sample from one world into another....

Like I was watching Jake One flip some shyt......and he used multiple samples from different genres in a single flip, gospel, soul and funk, and somehow it sounded all cohesive and the end result unique......

You would never say.......

I think it doesn't matter....if you flipped it and making money off it you probably gonna end up paying anyway and having to credit it....and if you skimp out then there is the legal end where you get royally fukked, pun intended.

 

[TXTrill1]

I never got that...I always saw it as homage... it really is an art...

It takes a command of music theory and genre sensibility to bring a sample from one world into another....

Like I was watching Jake One flip some shyt......and he used multiple samples from different genres in a single flip, gospel, soul and funk, and somehow it sounded all cohesive and the end result unique......

You would never say.......

I think it doesn't matter....if you flipped it and making money off it you probably gonna end up paying anyway and having to credit it....and if you skimp out then there is the legal end where you get royally fukked, pun intended.

This right here. Good music is good music and it should be appreciated as such. It's pretty fukkin lame on both ends though. To snitch (unless you're just droppin knowledge) and to get mad at the fact that someone pointed it out.

 

[ThaRealness]

That shyts not a jokeyou think an obscure 70s soul singer finding out about some Maxo Kream song without whosampled?


I ever make it they better keep my name out their mouf

 

[Drip Bayless]

That shyts not a jokeyou think an obscure 70s soul singer finding out about some Maxo Kream song without whosampled?


I ever make it they better keep my name out their mouf

Bruh, if you see enough success they gon find out regardless
The only surefire way to make sure you safe is to make sure your shyt don't do numbers

 

[ThaRealness]

Bruh, if you see enough success they gon find out regardless
The only surefire way to make sure you safe is to make sure your shyt don't do numbers

I mean if its on the charts and shyt. If youre schoolboy q and you rap over an obscure prog rock sample i doubt that music is reaching the band, and no label heads are gonna remember a modest band they signed 30 years ago

 

[Professor Lexx]

If you use a sample you need to give credit. As long as the music is hot who cares how you get there & what you used. Not giving credit is what got the old heads considering sampling stealing in the first place. All genres of music"sample" whether its chord progressions, guitar riffs, of chopped records. Underground heads can sometimes take themselves too serious.

 

[Phantom Dreamer]

Can't lie, sample snitches helped teach me a lot but I can understand why a lotta the older producer nikkas is mad .

 

[KingsOfKings]

 

[Insensitive]

This is why I don't sample myself.
I write everything from top to bottom.
However, I'm about to start getting into sampling for real.

 

[producingfire]

the new track started out as something different., a lot of people just want to appreciate how the sample became something new.

 

[Turbulent]

I would understand if it was the early 90s.

No one gives a fukk anymore.

Also i think Whosampled is a great website even from an educational perspective. You can tey to recreate beats and figure out what the original beatmakers did, how they chopped, how they filtered, how they layered, etc. And then fuse different techniques from different people, from different eras, into your own style.

On a semi related note, i think more beat makers should take younger beatmakers under their wing as apprentices.