Timbaland Steals Sample For Nelly Furtado’s “Do It”
First, let’s do a little listening test and compare the two songs:
- Janne “Tempest/Damage” Suni’s Acid Jazzed Evening
- Timbaland & Nelly Furtado’s Do It
Well, it sounds like he ripped off the melody and the chords, and sampled the hell of that song. But just thinking that hip-hop’s biggest producer steals the ideas for his songs isn’t good enough–we need something more concrete. Like this Youtube video showing an overlay of the two pieces:
Was that conclusive enough for you? The impressive part of Timbaland’s musical theft is that he apparently is in touch with the Finnish underground music scene. Read more about the scandal from SA forums.
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Timbaland ripps off song…
Posting videos on YouTube is private fun, sometimes a public phenomenon and in some cases an act of pilloring someone.
In this case the pointed YouTube finger aims at superstar record producer Timbaland. He is accused of having ripped off a track wi…
The worst part is that so many people are actually DEFENDING Timbaland.
“Hey, It’s just Sampling! So some lame computer music gets stolen, he’s the best music producer in the world, he can do whatever the heck he wants! Screw the rules, he has money!”
Jesus. It’s insane. That’s not ’sampling’, it’s using entire recorded sections of the song playing underneath. And not only that, Timbaland not only ignores giving credit, he claims all credit for the song himself with that lovely “Original, exclusive” line for the ringtone.
And this whole internet controversy is because of ONE thing – the RIAA. The pure hypocrisy that was revealed. Even if the case never develops – which I’m fairly sure some lawyer somewhere will be eager to enter with such stone-cold evidence – most people are (unfortunately) comforted even as it is.
[...] This is the latest in the Timbaland stealing things saga. Poor Scottie, while honest, is probably outmatched. [...]
It’s not sampling, its interpolation, which is replaying notes or melodies on your own instead of using clips or “samples” of the original. This is legal when you don’t have permission from the original artist. Like I said, it is legal but frowned upon in the music industry.
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-stew
If it was interpolation he should have credited it as such. what a douche.
Isn't it funny how I am not allowed to have DVD playback on my Wii because some fat-cat cigar smoking lawyer-worshipper might not be able to pay his air conditioning bill if the licensing fees for the technology aren't paid. but people think it's okay to take someone else's song and claim it as their own. Heck I can't even share a song with a Zune for more than 3 plays!!