"In '98 Chuck D (Public Enemy) filed a copyright infringement, and defamation lawsuit against the late Notorious B.I.G, Big Poppa Music, DJ Premier, Justin Combs Publishing, EMI, Bad Boy Records, and Arista Records. The basis of this lawsuit was on the Premier produced Ten Crack Commandments. According to Chuck D, Premiers sampling of Chuck D's voice counting down the ten crack commandments in the song was unauthorized, and also was not pleased that he was being used to advocate the selling of drugs."
So, some questions. Do you think Primier was aware of Chuck D's anti-crack songs of the past when he put the Chuck D count down into "Ten Crack Commandments"? Was this intentional, and if so what did he mean? Was it irony, or just "Chuck D's voice sounds tight in that mix"?
Are there other examples like this where a sample is used in a way antithetical to its original context? Like a sweet love song thrown into a gangsta joint talkin bout bitches and hos. Or throwing some communist sample from Boots Riley into a Jay-Z song focused on bling bling.
Would appreciate any thoughts, examples in this regard. Trying to figure out if this is a widespread phenomenon or if the Chuck D / Biggie thing was a fluke. Thanks.
― mutabaruka, Monday, 21 March 2005 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)
so, when are YOU gonna release a new rekkid mutabaruka? it's been awhile for you no?
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 March 2005 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)
Well, isn't the whole history of hip-hop sampling a story of recontexualizing stuff?
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 21 March 2005 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)
> a sample is used in a way antithetical to its original context?
Eminem's use of "Thank You" in "Stan" would seem to qualify, turning a gentle expression of inspiration into demented stalkership.
Rickey: Stuff like Fabolous & Tamia's "So Into You" are hardly recontextualization. They're hardly contextualization, in fact.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 21 March 2005 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)
Eminem's use of "Thank You" in "Stan" would seem to qualify, turning a gentle expression of inspiration into demented stalkership.no, it turns a gentle expression of inspiration into a gentle expression of inspiration (that employs demented stalkership as its text)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 21 March 2005 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)
What a dumbass.
I had a fight with Chuck
the punk motherfuck
tried to stab me in the gut
so I dazed him with an uppercut
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Monday, 21 March 2005 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)
Chuck sued over copyright infringement! Good god! I wonder if that's what depleted the global irony surplus for the past 6 years?
― David Allen (David Allen), Monday, 21 March 2005 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)