Know Your (Copy)Rights: Predicting The Sampling Fallout From “Paper Planes”
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As the rap world’s fascination with MIA’s “Paper Planes” and the parade of “remixes” featuring the likes of 50 Cent, Jim Jones and Freeway (possibly) starts to subside, we’ve been thinking about why more hip-hop producer’s haven’t sampled The Clash, whose “Straight To Hell” is the basis of Diplo’s beat. After the jump, FADER editors Eric Ducker and Eddie “Stats” Houghton discuss over instant messenger what the beatmakers have been missing, who probably blew it and whether you’ll be hearing the harmonica from “(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais” on Myrtle Ave. any time soon.
