Wait, are you saying the problem you have with the song is sampling? Because that happens in all of hiphop, otherwise everyone's just ripping off Clyde Stubblefield.
Yeah... sampling is kind of a runaway problem at this point, at least in Hip Hop. It's more tolerable in Rap though, where original lyrical content is the entire point and everyone knows it.
Dave
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Depends on the amount of sampling done. In this case it's the whole damned thing. There's nothing original about this song. Nothing in it is hers.
GasBandit
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If that were true, they'd all use the exact same unsourceable boom-whack-boom-boom-whack loop instead of basically lifting entire 20 year old songs to rap over.
GasBandit
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That wasn't the one I was thinking of, but it would serve. And good video.
Also http://www.retrojunk.com/commercial/show/26382/levis-hiphop
If that's true, then Sir Mix-a-lot was having sex with way more drug dealers than I remember.[DOUBLEPOST=1414172182,1414171843][/DOUBLEPOST]Sampling at its worst?
Also, please note: There's plenty of reasons to dislike the Anaconda video. While I like it, I also admit it's rather lazy, and makes me wish that Nicki would go back to the actual risks that made her famous instead of this pop-produced "controversy." I just don't see sampling as a problem, it's a part of the genre and artform.
GasBandit
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It has its gradations, running the gamut from "respectful tribute" to "institutionalized plagiarism." If you ask me, though, a large sampling would find itself weighted toward the latter end of the spectrum.
He should have turned around immediately and just started walking away before it went in.
This comedy sketch is brilliant. I find myself going back it looking it up every couple of years. Not only is the premise freaking bizarre and hilarious, but the entire 4 minute sketch is one long take. Brilliant
figmentPez
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Brilliant mash-up of We Will Rock You and Back in Black
Dana Gould as Maurice Evans as Dr. Zaius as Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain
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Makes a good point. Scar was the only Disney villain to actually make any real evil progress.
GasBandit
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Gaston pretty much had the town wrapped around his finger, and his downfall was only the final climactic battle which could have gone either way. Granted, Gaston's ascendancy happened prior to the movie's start.
King Candy had been the ruler of that candy racing game for god knows how long in Wreck-It Ralph and has been game jumping for years.
GWAR covers West End Girls at the AV Club, with a special treat at the end. Great cover or greatest cover?
http://www.avclub.com/video/gwar-covers-pet-shop-boys-211000
http://www.avclub.com/video/gwar-covers-pet-shop-boys-211000
It's SarDO! Accent on the DO!
And I'm with you, though I think I was in high school by the time they finally aired Tale of the Silver Sight in the US.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you John Cena at his finest.
I used to work with someone alarmingly like that. Hourly updates on his follower counts. It was fascinating, by which I mean incredibly fucking obnoxious.