Those chants found in drum kits, are they royalty free?

[Young/Nacho\Drawz]

I'm sure most of you have downloaded a modern drum kit that contains a folder named chants or sounds etc. that contain vocal chants. Often these kits say royalty free but anyone can take sounds from anywhere and make them. One of the most famous chants is the 'hey' that Dj Mustard uses. I know alot are Gucci Mane vocals. My question is, are they really royalty free? Meaning if you use them in a beat you don't have to pay the owner/person saying it royalties. Holla back with what you know, I need something factual to work with here, not "Well, I think......". Some of you a$$holes have a lot of knowledge about things but you refuse to open your damn mouths out of fear or you don't want to see others succeed. You're pathetic!

 

[ibrokemyneck]

I don't think they are royalty free. They make me nervous, but if I blow up and a track is monetized like that I'm sure nothing will come of it. I do think about it and it affects my selection

 

[producingfire]

Read the licensing agreement. Many of them are. However a lot of them are not. That Lil Jon kit was popular years back. Ut had the chants, those definitely weren't royalty free. "Yeah!, what, Okay!"

 

[Young/Nacho\Drawz]

Read the licensing agreement. Many of them are. However a lot of them are not. That Lil Jon kit was popular years back. Ut had the chants, those definitely weren't royalty free. "Yeah!, what, Okay!"

That's part of the problem. Most of the kits don't have agreements. Hell, the people making them don't even have rights to the sounds in the kits in the first place.

 

[producingfire]

Are you buying then from drum stores like Drumbroker or modern beats? Most of the kits that are bought have a licensing agreement. If they are downloaded that's a different story.

 

[BeetAficionado]

Read the licensing agreement. Many of them are. However a lot of them are not. That Lil Jon kit was popular years back. Ut had the chants, those definitely weren't royalty free. "Yeah!, what, Okay!"

That's one reason they're good to use in your reference track. Any artist wanting to jack your beat would either have to replay it without them in it or remove them to avoid a confrontation with that individual. Then you don't have to spend the money to confront the jacker yourself. You just take the obvious megastar saying "Hey" off of the version you sell.