Comments on: All Samples Are NOT Cleared

By: Garsidetogo

Garsidetogo — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:31:00 +0000

No, he did the right thing. He doesn’t have those samples cleared probably. He doesn’t want to make it easier for music publishers to hunt him and down and demand payment for the songs he sampled (which is probably a lot). Telling everyone the samples is lame anyways. It’s part of the mystique of hip-hop. Sorry, just my two cents.

By: Matt Powell

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By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 09 May 2011 03:22:00 +0000

wow so Quas is admitting they are not clearing samples… and hiding the samples… might as well be theft

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 09 May 2011 03:22:00 +0000

wow so Quas is admitting they are not clearing samples… and hiding the samples… might as well be theft

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By: Tom Dice

Tom Dice — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:07:00 +0000

I respect your enthusiasm for the original artists but remember for the producers this is their full top job and it is a perilous profession to be in right now….Bring back the exposure of long samples ala jungle brothers/EPMD/Gangstar/Pete Rock first albums….This will be difficult if producers feel afraid of using a sample in it’s entirety. A lot of stuff we hear now is just chopped up air. Premier does it well…but many are just derivative
Peace,
Tom Dice

By: Tom Dice

Tom Dice — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:59:36 +0000

complicated one…original artists should get dues but producers who use original samples should also not have them exposed…I say this because real underground producers that are true to the artform get little money and the obscurity is what it is all about. If you pride yourself on obscurity you dont want someone exposing your stuff because then a bunch of fools chase that artist and all their other records get unrealistically priced and fed in to the hype machine. Those dusty crate LPs made people like Diamond, Premier completely have to shorten samples and Hip Hop become reduced to lots of 3 second sounds..when it really didn’t need to…..keep the mystique..does everything always have to be exposed just because it can? If you really care about the original artist big them up regardless…not just in connection with the current raved about producer. This raises some very interesting arguments,
Peace,
Tom Dice

By: Dennis Porter

Dennis Porter — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:17:04 +0000

Hello, my name is Dennis and I am looking for a madlib sample from the Madlib Remixes 2 album. I have found most of the samples from thias album and they are quite interesting and definatly worth checking out. I am looking for this sample from this remixed song called “Rap Niggaz” by raekwon. please help

By: rrr

rrr — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:43:49 +0000

he wants them to take it down so he dont get sued duh

By: e-digga

e-digga — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:01:34 +0000

so called hip hop fans. bunch of lazy bums. if you wanna know where hip hop producers find their sources spend hours looking for and listening to old and odd records. use the internet if you want but when you find a sample discuss it with your circle if you want but don’t fucking put it on your lame ass blog so the world can see how “awesome” you are. and they say they love hip hop. attention-whores. foh

By: jay

jay — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:01:54 +0000

I understand the clearing issue but how did this go so far without ONE artists hearing his/her stuff without saying hey that wasnt cleared by me Im not saying artist are just waiting around listening if someone sample their work. But the album was made. their was three singles release their was global praise from blogs and critic , reknowed magazines etc and madlib and stonethrow was like fuck it dont care if some my samples are cleared , oh well let put album out and bait ours selves to get sued lol.I not mad at madlib cuz he a genius so gets a pass ,but man just if your going sample you should do the legal shit so you put yourself in awakard situations

By: ari

ari — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:52:27 +0000

all of this anger is totally misguided i think. madlib is one of my favorite dj’s/producers, and I totally understand where he is coming from, it’s not anything negative to you the bloggers, or him trying to hold his techniques as most of us couldn’t flip those samples even knowing what they are into what he creates. His problem with the sample sets is that it creates a form for people to sue him because he doesn’t clear many of his samples. He uses them freely and layers lots of samples so when literally the list is out there, artists will coming at him with lawsuits and that is something that he probably wants to avoid…

By: jay

jay — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:44:24 +0000

I know Im late but havent got around to post. first all as I type Im listening to madlib slims return but im indiffrent with this matter because madlib is one my favorite dj/producers
and he influnece some of my music intrest and the way I chop my samples and dig but when the story broke I was man this is kinda of bogus / when u have strong followin
that globals like his and when u pull this it like that smart kid in class that wont let u look on his paper. the fans and aspiring producers who follow your music in sense wont to know how your genius works and the only way is posting samples list and artist background not to mimic or infringe but ti appericate the talent and the keep aspiration breathing.

By: warren

warren — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:33:18 +0000

does anyone at least know where the samples that appear several times with a narrator saying things like “the villains themselves were responsible for much of the popularity, the audiences loved to hate” on the illest villians.. its driving me nuts cause i remember hearing that voice when i was a kid but can’t remember where

By: tyiscloser

tyiscloser — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:57:05 +0000

i understand his request….. and respect the man!!!
lets not forget this is hip hop .. we cant have all the work done for us…. we gotta go and find shit ourselves.. too

By: bzrwon

bzrwon — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:42:18 +0000

Wouldn’t it be nice if anyone from Stones Throw, other than their trained link crawling chimps would get in contact with you to answer some simple questions? Or if Peanut Butter Wolf (I’m getting sick of typing his name already, lol) or Madlib themselves would actually debate the situation in a logical and analytical forum, expressing why they take down anything related to them, especially free mixes/podcasts that contain “their” music. My main question is, why can’t we archive the podcast sets for them? They don’t have one themselves don’t they think the fans, especially the people who haven’t heard the previous ones, deserve to be able to listen to them (again). I sure do and that’s what I tried to do early in my blog but they kept taking down the FREE mixes, retail stuff I understand but why the FREE stuff? Other than website traffic to their site I can’t see a reasonable or logical explanation for not allowing others to hear something, they themselves posted for free.
I mean if anything if they co-operated with the blogs and bloggers that appreciate their music they would probably get more album sales, I mean studies have been conducted that correlate the connection between blogs and album sales:
“NYU Stern professor Vasant Dhar and former student Elaine Chang sampled 108 albums released between January and March of 2007 to determine the impact of blog chatter on record sales. Using Amazon.com sales rankings, albums were tracked four weeks before and four weeks after release. Researchers found that when an album got mention in more than 40 legitimate blog posts, sales were three times the average. If those albums were associated with major labels, sales jumped five times the average. Albums that got more than 250 blog mentions saw sales increases of six times the average.”

Hollywood Reporter

So if anything they would make more $, they could also thank us for the free publicity as well, I mean 90% of us don’t get a red cent for posting anything on our blogs, we do it for the LOVE of the music, something that seems to be forgotten in all of this.
Anyway I’m over it, I’ve joked and made aggressive comments on my blog but at the end of the day, it’s them that have to realize that ultimately it’s the fans that help put food on their tables.

By: MooT BooXLe

MooT BooXLe — Sat, 23 May 2009 10:45:24 +0000

Madlib is my favorite Hip-Hop producer. I’m not saying he’s the best. I’m just saying his work strikes a chord with me that no one else seems to. DOOM is quickly becoming one of my favorite MCs/artists…the Madvillain stuff was just perfect.
I know I’m a little late here y’all…it never even occurred to me to look into getting hold to the original samples (some of them records I have already – it was cool hearing them cut up like only Madlib would!).
Guess it’s no surprise, I’m a producer also, and I’m not interested in biting Madlib’s style…but I would love to have insight into how he puts stuff together (Dig the way he cut up The Stylistics’ version of Peaches & Herb’s song “United” on the 2nd Dudley Perkins record for instance).

Would someone be so kind as to hook me up with this sample set?
You can reach me at moot (at) mootbooxle (dot) com.

Thanks a billionzillionmillion!!!!!!!!!!

By: Jamie V

Jamie V — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:40:21 +0000

To answer the question……..

I appreciate the sample sets. In listening to the artists who produce the music we all love, I think it gives us a listeners a window to peek into the mind of Madlib, Doom, Pete Rock, Gangstarr amongst a whole slew of other artists that are in opinion, “Master’s of the Boards (Productions wise).”

Over the past year checking this blog I have been exposed to so many samples sets from my favorite that I can’t lie even lie….. I now listen to the sample sets as equally as I listen to the actual album form the artist…. If not MORE. I got the Madvilliany sample set….. I was fu$%#in’ blown away by the treatment of the original tracks. I for one wish I was been in the studio when madlib did the Quasimoto albums…. Or when Doom did “Operation Doomsday.”…. But that time is past.

I was one of those kids who actually read the liner notes of a hip hop album to get the samples….. At the time I didn’t have a computer but I would ask my Grandmother for clarity on certain tracks. My first sample she cleared up for me was “Night in Tunisia” by Dizzy Gillespie wqhich was samples in “Manifest” by Gangstarr. I was so addicted to that song I had her find me the album in her collection & show me the song. That’s crazy!

What I’m saying is…….. Someone has to do the homework & leg work looking for tracks. Although, the hard work of an artist should not go unnoticed. I for one am not a producer BUT I can appreciate the postings. It’s either this blog or someone on Limewire finding the tracks. Compiling them & making thier own Mix out of that. (which I’ve done)

I say keep it coming…… It does cross strange water when cats start to take the records & make money from them. That’s just wrong. (to me anyway). Download them. appreciate them in the comfort of your own home. That’s just me though.

I hope that answers the question.

Take it easy.