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kevinnottingham.com - 3/19/2008

This Is Hip Hop » All Samples Are NOT Cleared

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Consider yourself lucky if you were one of the few (76 total) that were able to download the Madvillainy Original Samples . As of today, the post has been deleted and the files have been removed from Megaupload’s servers. All of this was done at the request of Lord Quasimoto himself. Quas reached out to me today on MySpace and requested that the post be removed. His reasoning was that ...

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Swiped…
The Smoking Section — ... . Interesting debate going on as Kev @ ThisIsHipHop was asked by a specific artist to pull not just the links to his samples collection…but to make the post disappear. Ivan pulled my coat to it (peep ...

The Debate About Posting Sample Sources Online
XXL — There’s a war going on outside, or rather ummm… inside… between Madlib and the Internet. Seems as if the prolific producer caught wind of ThisIsHipHop listing the sample sources for the Madvillainy album and reached out for them to be taken down. Apparently, Madlib’s message said something like,“Pages like this on the internet are no help at all to people like Doom, Madlib, and those that work with them.” Already there’s ...

“Never Show Your Hand…”
The Smoking Section — ... equivalent of erasing a director’s commentary from a DVD. He is trying to exclude the listener from an experience that allows us to gain more appreciation for his craft and finished product, which is obviously a good look for Madlib. Most importantly, though, he kind of looks like a mean guy as I personally am turned off from him after this controversy. Hopefully, he’ll be too busy working on that Madvillainy 2 to worry about who gets to hear his samples from now on. “All Samples Not Cleared” [This Is HipHop] “Sample Sets Hurting ...