Discuss the various methods you use in music production, from compressor settings to equipment type.
By VanFanel Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:29 am
Man, I had this hot sample!!! It was from... well never mind where I got it, but it was hot!!! I spend two days with this sample and I finally create an entire rough draft song with it. Only to find out the next day, that Tweet's newest song "Turn Off The Lights" or something used the exact same sample. When I heard the song, I thought to myself, "I can't believe they "stole" my sample."

What a heartbreaker (throws beat in the garbage)

By JiggSaw Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:38 am
Fact: Only 2% of the American Population will make it in the entertainment business.

Throw away a beat because someone else used the sample? Thats just silly... especially if you had a hot track. Chances that your track would make it to mainstream is slim to none anyway. I'm sure you could hustle that track into a buyer's hands if it's hot. Regardless of whether someone used the same sample as you. I try to avoid using samples someone else used like everyone else. But if I make a song, then hear the same sample in a song later on.... you better believe I'm not throwing mine away. I probably flipped it a different way anyway. Just my 2 cents.

By elmacaco Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:56 am
2% is like 6 million people, gotta be more just in country music.

By JiggSaw Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:09 am
I forgot where I got that stat from. But it refers to everything entertainment.. not just music. Stunt men, camera crews, engineers, etc.

By elmacaco Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:16 am
That's BS then, there's more people employed on TV alone.
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By butcher Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:20 am
yea that has to be a mistake.. 2% is crazy..

By AXE26 Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:27 pm
they probably didnt mean 2% out of everybody on earth but a certain number like 2% out of a million people or so anyway back to the original post i hear the same samples on different records all the time just flipped differently the tweet joint is hot but was also jacked by styles p. he just muted some of the other shit in it and kept the sample on loop 50cent jacked it too so like the other guy said it is possible to sell the same sample to different artist because ur rendition will be different. Also on Lloyd banks album the track when the chips r down is the same sample used by cool and dre on fat joes hum drum from terror squad but they kept the full sample as where the banks one had hum drum filtered out just to keep when the chips r down.
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By trupro Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:35 pm
"Make it" is the key phrase man, like %10 will actually have a career in an entertainment business, and then maybe %2 of THOSE people will actually
"Make it". As in make it big. Like Tom Hanks Big.

By misterv Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:41 pm
everybody knows Tom Hanks bangs hot beats

By elmacaco Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:27 pm
Tom Hanks can't act his way out of a nut sack!

Gotta love Cartman.
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By Antonym Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:55 pm
Like Tom Hanks Big.


oh **** what emcee said that...i wanna say murs but i KNOW that's wrong. someone with a deep groovy voice...damn!!! who was that?

this is on the tip of my tongue
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By Antonym Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:14 am
answer - abstract rude, in a verse on AWOL one's track "grow"
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By Penfold Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:46 pm
VanFanel wrote:Man, I had this hot sample!!! It was from... well never mind where I got it, but it was hot!!! I spend two days with this sample and I finally create an entire rough draft song with it. Only to find out the next day, that Tweet's newest song "Turn Off The Lights" or something used the exact same sample. When I heard the song, I thought to myself, "I can't believe they "stole" my sample."

What a heartbreaker (throws beat in the garbage)


HAHAH! you joker! That break has been rinsed before TWEET and you so dont worry!!

First guys to my recollection,

- GreenJade - Most High - Produced by Judah 1997
- Funky DL - We Make Your Crew Say Produced by DJ Paris 1998

I even had a freesyle out in 99 on that riddem.

It aint no biggie though re jig it anyway do a better version and see.
I dont like Kwame's version that much he could have used more of the sample but never mind. each to their own.