User:ByeByeBaby/Hip Hop Fair Use Sample List

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[edit] Hip hop sample list

As a member of WikiProject Hip Hop, I thought a good way to contribute would be to collect a sample list of the fair-use samples of hip hop music on Wikipedia. There are a few reasons for this:

  • My interpretation of fair use leads me to believe that reusing the smallest number of samples is the best approach.
  • Many samples can provide information on multiple articles; articles about the song itself (if notable), the album the song came from, the artist and the general style of music. For instance, the following sample:

was found linked to the Dizzee Rascal page, but could also be helpful on the Boy in Da Corner, Grime, British hip hop and Mercury Music Prize articles as well. By colllecting these samples in one place, it makes searching out these links a lot easier.

  • It will avoid duplicate or similar samples, and also assist me (and others) in uploading samples to cover the gaps.

[edit] Methods and procedures

  • Sort by first letter in artist name, since relatively few rappers record under their legal names, and it's a lot easier to do it this way, rather than looking up unfamiliar artists. So Kanye West is near KRS-One, not Warren G.
  • I'm going by Wikipedia standards where multiple names collide. In other words, 'Pac is filed with a T as in Tupac Shakur, not a 2 as in 2pac.
  • The first step will be to go through the Category:Fair use music samples list.
  • I'm using the Template:Listen template here, to make cutting-and-pasting of links as easy as possible.
  • I'm including a harsh language advisory (harsh language advisory) for tracks containing the traditional four-letter words. Is this censorship? I don't think so. I'm putting the cutoff there, so "bitch" and "ho" are clean, as are gun and drug references. My reasoning:
    • I'd rather have the cutoff tighter rather than looser, to avoid calls based on intent or subject matter. Keeping it at "fuck", "shit" and "cunt" (plus derivations of the above) makes the call a lot easier and avoids grey areas.
    • Unlike pictures, audio isn't included inline.
    • It's a lot easier to grab the info once, rather than having to listen to samples later.
    • There's no clear expectation either way, unlike an article on, say breasts or Norway. Obviously, the first will have a questionable picture and the second will not. Hip hop often contains swearing, but many artists don't. Furthermore, some tracks could be either an original or "radio edit" version, and it's quite possible to snip 45 "clean" seconds out of some "dirty" songs.

[edit] Adding to this list

  • Be bold! If you see a sample or add one, please add it to this list.
  • Also please tag it as a fair use music sample.
  • I find that the most useful filename is artist-song.ogg.
  • I'm trying to err slightly on the side of inclusivity with this list; Lauryn Hill's Redemption Song cover, for instance, isn't really a hip hop performance, nor is it a hip hop song. But she's a hip hop artist, and that's good enough for me.


[edit] The list

[edit] Artists 0-9 and A-C

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[edit] Artists D-H

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[edit] Artists J-M

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[edit] Artists N-S

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[edit] Artists T-Z

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