You See How They F'ed Up "Machine Gun Funk" on Remastered RTD?!

[CourtesyFlush]

This is why owning albums is important to me

 

[Suleiman Bey]

it's bad but not as bad as "Hate Me Now" without Puffy's shyt talking or "Street dreams" remix with Dude whispering street dreams and that horrible chick singing.

 

[DaHNIC82]

Stream gang

 

[HollywoodP]

This is why I will forever backup my library in mp3 form to an SD Card...and probably eventually Cloud when they have higher gb versions for free perfected.

I don't even want to hear the new version of this

 

[Hersh]

smh..

we need a playlist cayaloging all tge song through history that changed as they hit streaming..

 

[classicmaterial]

smh..

we need a playlist cayaloging all tge song through history that changed as they hit streaming..

Also needs a section for songs in this streaming era that were changed after their initial release. Most people know The Life of Pablo had multiple changes but I'm sure a lot of people already forgot that Scorpion had a bunch of tracks changed a few days after it was released

 

[Kool Kitty Kat]

This is why owning albums is important to me

Hard to believe people are fans of Biggie if they don't even own a copy of this album.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

smh..

we need a playlist cayaloging all tge song through history that changed as they hit streaming..

This happened long before streaming. Every official release since 2004 has had the samples removed.

 

[RAW_SPK]

it's bad but not as bad as "Hate Me Now" without Puffy's shyt talking or "Street dreams" remix with Dude whispering street dreams and that horrible chick singing.

I dont think I ever heard this...link?

 

[QU Hectic]

What'd they do to the latter? Lemme find out Ozzie was sampling. lol

From Wikipedia

n 1986, Daisley and Kerslake sued Osbourne for unpaid royalties, eventually winning songwriting credits on Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman. Subsequently, a 2002 reissue was made of these albums which replaced Daisley and Kerslake's original bass and drum parts with new parts recorded by Osbourne's then-current drummer Mike Bordin and bassist Robert Trujillo. The 2002 reissue also included new backing vocals from singers Mark Lennon and John Shanks.

Osbourne's wife and manager, Sharon, stated at the time that it was Ozzy, not she, who was responsible for the decision to re-record the parts, stating "because of Daisley and Kerslake's abusive and unjust behavior, Ozzy wanted to remove them from these recordings. We turned a negative into a positive by adding a fresh sound to the original albums."[27] However, Osbourne contradicted this claim in his 2009 autobiography, stating that the decision to re-record the original bass and drum parts was strictly Sharon's decision, and that he "didn't have anything to do with" it.[28] He said his wife "just snapped" and had it done without his knowledge.[28] He also stated that "a sticker was put on the covers telling everyone about it",[28] though in fact the sticker was not initially placed on the re-issue and was only placed on the covers at a later date due to fan outcry over the altered recordings.

In 2003, Daisley and Kerslake's lawsuit was dismissed by the United States District Court in Los Angeles. This dismissal was upheld by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.[29] With regard to the reissue, Ozzy stated to The Pulse of Radio, reiterating a conversation with Sharon,[30] "You know what, whatever the circumstances were, I want the original thing back." The 30th Anniversary release of Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman contains the original recordings, not the 2002 reissues.[31]

 

[keond]

It couldn't have been cleared if it's been removed... it probably went undetected back then but since RTD is such a popular album, someone probably caught it.

Producers used to sample stuff without clearing it all the time, even after the laws were established... matter fact, I think there's another sample on this album that got removed for the same reason like 10 years ago.

EDIT:

"On March 24, 2006, Bridgeport Music and Westbound Records won a federal lawsuit against Bad Boy Records for copyright infringement, with a jury deciding that Combs and Bad Boy had illegally used samples for the production of the songs "Ready to Die", "Machine Gun Funk", and "Gimme the Loot".[6][7] The jury awarded $4.2 million in punitive and direct damages to the two plaintiffs, and federal judge Todd Campbell enacted an immediate sales ban on the album and tracks in question.[7] On appeal, the Sixth Circuit found the damages unconstitutionally high and in violation of due process and remanded the case, at which point Campbell reduced them by $2.8 million; however, the verdict was upheld.[8][9] All versions of the album released since the lawsuit are without the disputed samples.[10]

Although a fair use issue, Combs and Bad Boy never raised the legal concept of the fair use doctrine in their defense.[8] This decision was questioned by some legal experts: Anthony Falzone of the Fair Use Project at Stanford Law School criticized Combs and Bad Boy for not defending the legality of sampling and suggested that they might have refused to raise such a defense because they feared it could later imperil their control over their own music.[11]

On April 2, 2014, Lee Hutson of The Impressions filed a multimillion-dollar copyright infringement suit against Combs, Bad Boy Records, and the estate of the late Notorious B.I.G. for copyright infringement, alleging that his song "Can't Say Enough About Mom" was illegally sampled in the production of the song "The What".[12] The estate countersued in turn, claiming the sample as used was short, adapted, and supplemented, and thus subject to fair use,[13] a legal tactic not pursued previously"

Just to flesh it out, Bridgeport music is owned by this Jew here

George Clinton signed over his rights to this leech in 1983. He says he didn't, it was forged, but who knows, George was freebasing hundreds of dollars of coke per day at that point. But Bridgeport is almost exclusively in the business of P-funk. They have filed hundreds of lawsuits over the last 20 years mostly with rappers who sample the catalog. They literally do nothing for the legacy. They don't re-release music.They don't do deluxe editions. They just make money hand over fist. Its a one person company and this Jew is in the business of pimping the catalog for every cent it can get . He listens to dozens of records a week to see if he can spot a sample of Pfunk. Its mostly rappers he targets of course.........And he sues and pockets the money. Pfunk doesnt get shyt. its the reason George Clinton is almost 80 and does a 100+ shows a year. I hate how so many musical legends get fukked over like this. Shout out to the Gawd MJ who purchased Little Richard and Sly Stone's catalog and GAVE IT BACK TO THEM FREE OF CHARGE AND UNPROMPTED, and those legends are able to live their last years on their terms.

 

[flah_neon]

i knew about this when i first got spotify in 2013.............i was disgusted

 

[Zero]

Yo that article had me peeping some of Mo Bee's sample flips and this shyt is just RIDICULOUS

 

[Buckeye Fever]

If I recall, The Source billed this as the 4th greatest beat ever.

That sample taken out is noticeable as fukk

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Just to flesh it out, Bridgeport music is owned by this Jew here

George Clinton signed over his rights to this leech in 1983. He says he didn't, it was forged, but who knows, George was freebasing hundreds of dollars of coke per day at that point. But Bridgeport is almost exclusively in the business of P-funk. They have filed hundreds of lawsuits over the last 20 years mostly with rappers who sample the catalog. They literally do nothing for the legacy. They don't re-release music.They don't do deluxe editions. They just make money hand over fist. Its a one person company and this Jew is in the business of pimping the catalog for every cent it can get . He listens to dozens of records a week to see if he can spot a sample of Pfunk. Its mostly rappers he targets of course.........And he sues and pockets the money. Pfunk doesnt get shyt. its the reason George Clinton is almost 80 and does a 100+ shows a year. I hate how so many musical legends get fukked over like this. Shout out to the Gawd MJ who purchased Little Richard and Sly Stone's catalog and GAVE IT BACK TO THEM FREE OF CHARGE AND UNPROMPTED, and those legends are able to live their last years on their terms.

George Clinton was getting jerked so bad especially off the samples that he had to release that Sample Some of Disc record in '93 for the sole purpose of giving West Coast artists material to sample from him that he could actually make money off of.