Rapper Q Tip From Hip Hop

There may be no bigger name in rap music right now than Chicago's own Chance the Rapper. His third mixtape Coloring Book is now available on all major music streaming platforms (Apple Music, Soundcloud, Spotify, Tidal, etc.) and he is also the first artist EVER to break The Billboard Top 10 Albums chart with streams only. He has burst onto the scene as a "lone wolf" of sorts; refusing to sign to a record label, releasing all of his music for free, and combining rap, jazz, and gospel music more beautifully than anyone we've ever seen in the music industry. To celebrate Lil Chano's recent success let's check out his ten best songs.

Alexie Duff could argue that the sample does not play a substantial part in the piece however he still sampled a sound recording without acquiring permission from the copyright owners. If legal action was to be carried out and the judge decided against Alexie Duff, overall it would stand that the samples used were taken from original sound recordings by Pink Floyd so therefore an infringement of the sound recording copyright would have occurred. If Alexie Duff was to re-create the drum beat rather than use the existing recorded sound then this would still be sampling though it would only be an infringement of the musical copyright. In spite of this, Pink Floyd’s record label may have less of a case in court as the sample was so short. However this is not the case. An example of where a record company has decided to take legal action against an artist for the use of sampling is the case of Hyperion Records Limited v. Warner Music (UK) Limited. A band called “The Beloved” used an eight second sample of a song called “O Euchari”. The sound was recorded by a singer named Emily Van Evera. Hyperion Records owned the rights to the sound recording and decided to sue. At the preliminary hearing, the judge decided that that the eight seconds of sampled music constituted as a substantial part. In the end, an out of court agreement was made between the two parties. Another example would be the case of

The hip-hop cultural movement has been divided into four categories: the 1970’s discovery of turntable sampling and the emergence of "Rapper’s Delight" from The Sugar Hill Gang; "The Old School" defined by Run-D.M.C.; The 1980’s Rapper’s of "Social Realism" dealing with the identification of racial issues within the urban lifestyle, expressed in lyrics by rappers such as Ice-T, Rakim, N.W.A. and LL Cool J; The present day commercial hip-hop centered around monopolized record labels sacrificing art for the benefit of commercial revenue, such as "No Limit Records." The hip-hop movement originated as an urban impulse using various elements of performance art to discover a cultural identity, which was usually deemed unacceptable by law enforcement officers. The culture adopted an "outlaw" image through graffiti art, breakdancing and DJ’s mixing samples at public party performances. The two most

Hip-hop is a musical art form, created by African-Americans and Latino-Americans in the mid seventies. Its conception came from a young generation of African-Americans in the Bronx, who created a beautiful, prideful expression of music, art and dance from a backdrop of poverty. Since that ignition in a New York City borough, it has inspired people from all socio-economic and cultural backgrounds all across the world. When hip-hop is discussed as an art form and not just as rap, it usually is meant to include the four elements: the DJ, the emcee, graffiti writing, and break dancing. Some of these were around before the words "hip-hop" were uttered, but they reestablished their identities within hip-hop.

Like any other style of music, hip hop has roots. Even though many artists contributed to the style of hip hop, Clive Campbell, “DJ Kool Herc,” is the founding father of it. Kool Herc originally started hip hop about six years before the term “hip hop” entered the popular vocabulary. WHBI’s radio show host “Mr. Magic,” was the first to play hip hop anywhere (Ogg 85). Hip Hop, like Rock n Roll before it, is not only a genre of music, but also a complex system of ideas, values and concepts that reflect newly emerging and ever-changing creative correlative expressive mechanisms including but not limited to song, poetry, film, and fashion (Hip 1). Hip Hop includes a wide variety of music originating from Blacks and Hispanic as it was used to express

Rap and hip-hop music has grown from an underexposed form of expression into a way for people of all backgrounds to shed light on their lives through rhythm and poetry. One of the most intelligent, artistic rap groups of the 1990’s was a Tribe Called Quest. A Tribe Called Quest perfected the hip-hop alternative to hardcore and gangster rap, abandoning the old style rap music to focus on abstract message tracks. Formed in 1988 by Q-tip (Kamaal Ibn John Fareed) and Phife Dawg (Malik Izaak Taylor), A Tribe Called Quest was unraveling the road for success. The group is known for being the pioneers of alternative hip-hop music, having helped to pave the way for many innovative artists.

In the musical sense, sampling is when a segment of music is taken from an original recording and is inserted, sometimes repetitively, in a new recording. A sample can be any type of media that is pre-recorded, from classical pieces of music, to rock guitar riffs. The origins of music sampling predate the 1980 's, when hip-hop was first brought on the scene. Some say that sampling has been around much longer than some think, steering to the fact that jazz musicians have always imitated each other 's riffs. In 1961, after being influenced by many other musicians who had experimented with sound and recording, James Tenney took it a step further by talking an existing popular song and changing it completely. His “Collage #1” took Elvis Presley 's recording of “Blue Suede Shoes”, took out sections, swapping them with others and played them along with the tempo of the song. Many could argue that this was the beginning of music sampling. Although that was the beginning, music sampling has only gained mainstream popularity through the Hip-hop/rap and electronic genres. Even though sampling is a very popular thing to do now in the digital age, it doesn 't come without it 's complications. These include many claiming that sampling is unoriginal and doesn 't need any musical creativity. Nevertheless, there are many points to counter-act these arguments including, generating interest for unknown music and encouraging musical experimentation. In this essay I will

Most artist acknowledge that they sampled the work of another and there is a fee that the must pay to use it. As long as those two things are done then an artist shouldn’t be able to keep them from using it. That is the argument of artist like J. Cole and Kanye West.

In the movie Beats, Rhymes, & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest, the audience is transported through time to the creation of hip hop music, where Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammed, Q tip and Jarobi started a snowball rolling to the place at which music is today.

In the 1990’s we saw many artists sampling the work of other artists in order to make their own songs. Sampling is described “as the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one song recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece” (Wikipedia, 2016). Although sampling has been around for a long time, Hip Hop music was one of the most popular music genres to embrace this method and create their own style from it.

Hip-Hop is not only a genre of music, but a cultural movement that expressed many of the struggles of black and Latino people. DJ Kool Herc, has been named the “Father of Hip Hop” and is the DJ that has been credited as the originator of this cultural movement of Hip-Hop. On August 13, 1973, a local DJ named Clive Campbell, and his sister, Cindy held a “Back to School Jam” in the recreation room of their apartment. Campbell was a 17 year old immigrant from Kingston, Jamaica and he was known as DJ Kool Herc. When he DJ’d he would use two turntables, and he would mold old music with new dance songs to create new music that could go on all night. ((( the 'break' or 'getdown' sections - the part where the break beat or percussion part of the song

Copyright lasts a very long time, musicians need to either get permission to sample a song or look for a piece that is no longer protected under copyright laws. Works published before 1923 are now in the public domain [3], meaning anyone can sample a song that was published before that date. Works published after 1922 but before 1978 are protected 95 years from publication date, however if the work was published after 1978 it will be protected for the life of the author plus an additional 70

A Case Study of The Grey Album by DJ Danger Mouse: Does Copyright Law Inhibit Creativity in Music?

Music can possess a lasting power to influence the lives of listeners and inspire future works of art. Copyrights give artists and their production teams a monopoly over their intellectual creations insuring their compensation is relative to their audience’s appreciation of the work for a set period. The U.S. Copyright Law in it’s inception saw the value of limiting this monopoly in order to encourage innovation of creative works. Over the years, a complex system of royalty compensation developed based on these copyrights divvied amongst all players within the collaborative production of sound recordings. The invention of various technological mediums of sound distribution forces the music industry to adapt with new business models to

A&M Records v. Napster is a landmark case in which the application of intellectual property laws has forever impacted contemporary culture with regards to digital works. The legal issues and applicable laws presented in the instant case resulted in a holding, which set forth a precedent that has influence the mode and means of digital works distribution. The outcome of Napster affects both businesses and individuals.