A History of Sampling, Part Two: Creativity in Court

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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What happens when your favorite artist uses a sample in their own work? Are they merely inspired, or are they stealing? In the second part of this special two-part episode, Ben, Noel and Max explore the -- wait for it -- ridiculously complicated legalities surrounding the science and art of sampling in the modern day.

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0:00.0	Picture Miami. Picture its beaches. Picture three radio journalists assassinated in cold blood.
0:09.2	This is silenced, the radio murders.
0:12.4	You left the body there for reason. It was the calling card. It's like the mafia used to do.
0:17.2	The mastermind has never been caught. To find him, we had to go deep into a world of drugs and darkness.
0:24.4	And there were these hints of a much bigger conspiracy.
0:30.8	I'm Osvalotian. Listen to silenced, the radio murders.
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0:40.4	Ridiculous history is a production of iHart Radio.
1:00.0	Welcome back to the show ridiculous historians. Let's give it up for the man the myth legend.
1:11.6	Super producer, Mr. Max Williams. Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday.
1:17.2	We're fresh off monster jam. This week we're talking all about the history of sampling, which as
1:23.8	my good pal, Noel pointed out is very near and dear to the three of us. They called me Ben.
1:30.6	Noel is a part two, so I guess we should tell people or ask people to sample part one first.
1:36.2	Yes, exactly. Put it on your little sampler platter.
1:40.3	Skiwere it with a tiny toothpick. Enjoy its delicious flavor.
1:45.8	Yes, so let's let's get let's get straight to hip hop.
1:50.4	Sampling has become inherently associated with the world of hip hop, the world of dance.
1:59.2	It starts even before hip hop was called hip hop. It really starts in the 70s, but the affordability
2:08.2	of these sampling machines in the 80s becomes the and I rarely use this phrase because I hate
2:14.9	when corporate types do it. It becomes the inflection point.
2:17.6	Yes, the inflection point indeed. But we're talking about folks, this is even separate from folks who
2:24.2	are able to all of a sudden afford those samplers that we're talking about, the NPCs and SP 1200s
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