Kanye sued over jazz samples

Maybe Kanye West should get his new album produced by blackdaylight...He's actually from Chicago & never uses samples!)

This is a common practice in music industry. Most of them figure that no one will know that sample of a voice at 140 bpm was a classic song from the 60's.

Great point atommccree. In some cases the artist (like Kanye for example) may realize they're ripping someone off, but the financial possibilities are larger than any fine.

Dumb ass, ringtone rapper takes another nose dive! For those of us who use samples in other ways undetectable, it's easy. There's low-fi creativity. But when you blatantly use the whole thing like Biz Markie did in the day, non musicians will eventually have to pick up an instrument. Ask Q-tip.

"Upon This Rock" is a drum break and if you know it then you understand why this is not so cut and dry. As far as sampling goes, it's much more difficult to prove infringement on a sampled rhythmic pattern than it is on a sampled melody, so, by and large, hip hop producers have been able to use looped and/or chopped drum samples for free. Yes, technically if you take anything directly off of someone else's recorded master and use it in your own composition you are supposed to clear/license it, but this is a slippery slope and what makes a certain kind of production (production that many fans associate with the dope kind of hip hop) cost prohibitive in this day and age.