I was sampled! UK rap related
Danno3000
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So I'm googling my name (because I do that), and I come across an album by a Welsh producer called Metabeats with two tracks called "Dan Zacks". Mine is not an especially common name, so I'm a little intrigued, but I figure that along with the Metabeats mainstays (OPTIMAS PRIME, QUIET POISON, RALPH RIPSHIT[/b] (best name ever!), RUFFSTYLZ, MUDMOWTH, C MINUS, SKAMMA, PERGYL, beleaf, HEKLA, KUSHA & JOE BLOW) there's some dude name 'Dan Zacks'. So I listen to the mp3 samples available here: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/287489-01.htm and, gee whiz, Dan Zacks is me. Dude took samples of Waxing Deep--lame samples, I might add, although one is before I'm about to chat with crinky--and played them over his beats. I'm an interlude on some dude's hiphop album! Dig: 
Here is what some website says about it:Leaden beats, uninspired scratching and tired, aggressive raps left me feeling thoroughly discouraged; if this is the best that UK hip hop has to offer, then we might as well just pull out the London Posse CDs now. But then, on track 4, the bizarre skit entitled ???Dan Zacks???, it all starts to look a lot brighter: it sees a cheesy American DJ rambling over a choice soul sample; sounds weird, but it works[/b].So is Metabeats the future? Is Waxing Deep destined for UK glory? I don't know a thing about UK hip hop and I don't know Metabeats. I'm not entirely comfortably with being a cheesy American DJ, but what the hell, the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about, or so they say. At least folks in Wales are digging Waxing Deep.I hereby formally request that AKO name the next track after "Hammer" "Cheesy American DJ".
Here is what some website says about it:Leaden beats, uninspired scratching and tired, aggressive raps left me feeling thoroughly discouraged; if this is the best that UK hip hop has to offer, then we might as well just pull out the London Posse CDs now. But then, on track 4, the bizarre skit entitled ???Dan Zacks???, it all starts to look a lot brighter: it sees a cheesy American DJ rambling over a choice soul sample; sounds weird, but it works[/b].So is Metabeats the future? Is Waxing Deep destined for UK glory? I don't know a thing about UK hip hop and I don't know Metabeats. I'm not entirely comfortably with being a cheesy American DJ, but what the hell, the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about, or so they say. At least folks in Wales are digging Waxing Deep.I hereby formally request that AKO name the next track after "Hammer" "Cheesy American DJ".
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So I guess people sampling mp3's is becoming more common?
I don't think it's sampling in the traditional sense. They took full minutes (not seconds) of my radio programme and laid beats underneath. I certainly possess a copyright in the content I create for my show and they are using it without license, which is no different than using a song I wrote and recorded without license, but I'm not bothered. I'm just a little taken aback that they did it and then used my name as the track title. Twice. Actually, I think it's great.
LOL! "Welsh hip-hop?" THAT is funny. Do they rap in the Welsh language or in English?
Haha, yeah, a lot of people say that. They rap in English...
I WAS SO CLOSE TO BEING SAMPLED
IT'S JUST NOT FAIR
I'm pretty sure there's some Welsh-language rap out there. I couldn't testify for the quality of it, though.
The scene is so small over here that releases like this hardly ever make back the money it cost to produce the CD???s.
They are proper enthusiast, when I left an Atmosphere jam in London last year some of them had drove all the way from Wales to London just to knock out CD outside the show! Anyway as I waked past their car they said ???here mate have on of these??? and gave me their CD for nothing, top guys, and it was some good shit.
I have a decent 12" by a Welsh rap crew called Parlour Talk that DJ OneCut used in his Cut-Conspiracy Session for Solid Steel in 2001. The single is called Old, New & Blue. It's in English, cool bass-line/sample... the raps are pretty funny, and best of all, they don't grate on the ears like some/lots of UK stuff.
Nah, Parlour Talk are from Bristol...
I quite like this one.
That is a great video! When I do my first hip hop single, the video is going to be filmed in my local squash club.
Of course the Strut generated a
The crew sent me a lovely email explaining their intentions, encouraging me not to sue (which, it seems needless to say, I was only kidding about), and explaining a little about themselves. Now I'm just flattered; it's really gratifying to learn that creative types in Wales are enjoying Waxing Deep enough to put my name on their album. I wish them nothing but success and hope that they're kind enough to send groupies Waxing Deep's way. Go support Welsh hip hop.