Azealia Banks

or at least a picture of Quad City DJs

http://static.tvfanatic.com/images/gallery/i-choo-choo-choose-you.jpg

tracklash

wow you guys really CAN argue about anything

― Wie wol ich bin der vogel has noch den erfret mich das (forksclovetofu), Friday, February 3, 2012 4:04 PM

wrong

i stand corrected

no you don't

*sobs*

http://www.factmag.com/2012/03/26/diplo-in-the-dock-did-he-steal-that-azealia-banks-beat/

^ naughty diplo!

shocked, simply SHOCKED that diplo might've lifted a beat

It's drumline. It all sounds vaguely the same.

nah

oh come on, AB's entire steez is to rap over other people's music

(that was to Eric)

can't believe diplo's in the dock

Yeah, but "stealing" drum cadences? Is this high school state competition?

(Was in HS drumline, tho, so I'm sort of predisposed toward liking anything with that as a backing track.)

liking/disliking has nothing to do with whether one is a direct lift of the other!

Don't I know it.

seven years after "bucky done gun" people are surprised by diplo jacking a beat?

it's not about copying a rhythm, he pretty clearly jacked someone else's whole recording (which probably used drum sounds from a sample pack, but still) and barely even changed it.

Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" defense just leaped to mind

"the Queen song goes 'dun-dun-dun-dududun-dun/dun-dun-dun-dududun-dun', but MY song goes 'dun-dun-dun-dududun-dun/DUN-dun-dun-dun-dududun-dun', it's completely different"

*consults the movie Drumline*

conclusion: Nick Cannon

otm

its a nearly exact copy while at the same time being incredibly generic, in conclusion the guy prob deserved it

yo can't copyright no beats man

but im giving it a new name --diplo

but you can copyright sound recordings, right? although like i said, these drums are probably from some royalty-free commercial sample pack.

way cooler to record your own drumline samples imo.

i was just quoting flav man

obv if you're using the same master recording there's a legal issue that wouldn't exist if you're just emulating

i have been told BY THE INTERNET so it is true that this is from a pile of beats diplo gave AB to freestyle over when he was getting to know her, was not intended for mass consumption necessarily

with people e-mailing tracks back and forth and posting them to soundcloud as soon as they're done etc. honestly this kind of thing is just going to inevitably become more and more common. but again diplo has done very little to make people not assume the worst when there's any confusion about authorship in things with his name on it.

had high hopes for Azealia, but I haven't really dug any of her shit aside from "212". actually, her Interpol cover isn't bad either.

i quite dislike her. the guntalk on this record is not very becoming, and as brainwasher pointed out to me, its odd for someone to diss nicki minaj on twitter than bite her style from a few years back so completely

Huh, that's surprising

More and more I am realizing that "212" was a brilliant fluke

she is someone we've been aware of for like, all of what, five months? let's...... relax

maybe nothing will be as great as "212" but then again, to my mind that's a very high bar anyway

I don't get the adulation tbh. I don't think she's terrible but the only thing I find really distinctive or interesting about her is that she said "cunt" 5000 times in "212".

Guys I read recently that in Jamaica producers reuse each others' beats all the time but that it's ok because its is a culturally acceptable practice and the beats are called "riddims."

hahaha

remember how really pissed off everybody got when it was discovered that 'umbrella' was using a standard garage band drum loop

oh wait

that's umber-ella iirc

eh eh eh

canucks, right?

she is someone we've been aware of for like, all of what, five months?

three years!

"we" is the overwhelming majority of people who know her for that one song, not people who have a global radar for every potty mouth female rapper on the planet earth

amazing compliment, i feel very proud of that :D

lex rolodex

well regardless i think my point stands, which is that the weather is fine and life is too nice to worry about the relative quality of post-212 azealia banks releases in the second quarter of 2012

I didn't really understand the big excitement about that song anyway. ILM loves sass I guess.

2005 -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9SZIWOMnAU