Just watched a documentary about sampling and it's legality. One of the common talking points of people thinking it should be illegal is that sampling music takes less effort than creating new music. I have multiple problems with this. Thread
First of all, making music from sampled material requires a gigantic amount of time, effort, and skill. To suggest that it takes less effort is like saying that people who write songs featuring guitar are less valid because they didn't invent the guitar.
Second of all, the amount of effort that goes into the making of something does not measure it's worth or value.
The idea that a hip hop artist "stole" from someone is like saying Zeppelin "stole" from Les Paul because they both used A flat scales.
The idea that a hip hop artist "stole" from someone is like saying Zeppelin "stole" from Les Paul because they both used A flat scales.
Third of all, ALL music is sourced from the world. Literally EVERYTHING. The same way ALL art is sourced from the world, and ALL ideas are sourced from our experiences and previous things. Some are closer than others, but the idea that sampling de facto isn't creation is bogus
In before someone brings up someone sampling 30 seconds of a song or a guitarist literally stealing a whole riff.
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