Yeah
@Venem got it right, you gotta pay to play.
It wasn't always like this with rap music. It used to be cool when your words were used for scratching on a hook, but once 1993 came around, rappers got more business smart, and wanted revenue from everything. Rza was the first one to make this happen. I remember he said if you use anything from him, you got to pay. Notice right after that scratching on records started going away. Only a few people did it, compared to before 1994. It was mostly underground artists, who most likely didn't mind paying a little something to keep the music the way they wanted. The more mainstream, the more greedy, and that meant less paying for stuff unless they had too, as with the case with loops or samples, so overtime you can slowly see scratching, and the DJ playing a part in the music, was phased out.
Think about this, all these new artists coming out, and not one has a DJ, unless when going on tour. Once you displace the DJ, you lose the essence on Hip Hop, and is why this rap shyt is missing that energy it used to have. Its just a shell of its old self, now.
I wonder where the energy will reveal itself, in the future? It came from jazz, then went to rock, then went to r&b,soul, then funk,then disco, then rap. No matter how much money grabbers try to control it, they can't because it leaves, and creates something else
You must be out of your mind. 5% for somebody to repeat 4 words? This ins't a sample, just an interpolation that ppl do all the time. They probably didn't even have to pay or at least this is the first time I've heard of such a thing.
