It looks like the sample police have struck again, this time, the target is Raekwon. According to a recent report from AllHipHop, Rae has been served with a lawsuit over a sample featured in his song “The New Wu.”
Bridgeport Music/Westbound Records recently filed suit against the Wu-Tang emcee over an uncleared sample used in his song “The New Wu” off 2009’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…Pt. 2. The song, which features Ghostface Killah and Method Manand was produced by RZA, features a sample of the Magictones’ 1971 song “I’ve Changed.”
The suit claims that RZA illegally used a sped-up four measure portion of the original track. All four rappers are named in the lawsuit, and are being sued for copyright infringement, unfair competition and lawyer fees.
“These four measures have been sped up approximately 8.9%, making them last approximately 10 seconds and raising their key by one step from E minor to F# minor,” the suit reads.
DX will keep you updated as more information comes to light.
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These four measures have been sped up approximately 8.9%, making them last approximately 10 seconds and raising their key by one step from E minor to F# minor,
LMAO wut
Damn! can’t even disguise a sample nowadays.
pretty sure there are 1000’s of songs that have used a four measure clip from a song, sped it up or slowed it down a little and changed keys…what a retarded lawsuit. That’s my favourite song on the album too.
Tell a friend, it’s that symbol again..
great hook by Meth
Pay up!
Now that’s desperate
You can not have the WU!!! he belongs to Maddie!~!!!!
I know labels have people that do nothing but listen to songs to find uncleared samples but seriously to the people it may concern stop name dropping the names of samples on youtube or sites like who sampled! I know people get excited when they find a sample but just keep it to yourself, this kind of dry snitching only gives these money hungry record labels more ammo to work with & just destroys the the culture and sound we love!
wtf are you talking about
TRUTH!!
i sure hope they cleared that elton john sample or they could be fucked
It’s a great song, go f yourself crybabies.
TIME TO CALL GEORGE CLINTON !!!!!
imma say some truth right here fuck it if someone gets butthurt… yall live in a fuckin currupted society U.S.. there are some great fuckin people but mostly theres people full of shit, fuckin worms suckin every dollar possible to their miserable existence… music is art, expression, if yall from the companies cant understand that, take your golddigger bitch ass home… goddamn what the fuck happened to the music
What happened to the music? Well, Hollywood came into the mix.
who gives a fuck, the song is a classic. WU-TANG!
So people are going to start suing pop artist for using G, D, C & E minor next. How many songs have that chord progression?
this shit needs to end, this came out almost 4 years ago, theres gotta be some limit on how long you can sue a dude for a small ass sample that WAS different with speed and time signature. thats a new song, how can you even prove this? anyone can come up with the same melody without hearing the original sample.
You really think old school singers are sitting around listening to every song released at every moment to see if anybody sampled them?