Nov 20, 2025
MidzySeems they bought it for this. Pretty cool feature
https://artists.spotify.com/en/blog/spotlighting-the-people-connections-and-stories-behind-your-music
Song Credits are just the start. We’ll also be rolling out SongDNA, an interactive view that maps out connections between songs, showing collaborators, samples, and covers all in one place. Spotify Premium listeners will see it in the ‘Now Playing’ view as a new way to explore, dig deeper into how tracks are connected, and trace a song’s creative roots. Samples and covers in SongDNA are powered by WhoSampled, which is now part of Spotify. With WhoSampled’s community-built knowledge, fans can dive into the influences behind the music they love, while giving sampled and covered artists fresh ways to get discovered and celebrated.
this is trash i dont need this
- Nov 20, 2025
whosampled is cool as a one-stop shop for sampling but i do agree that sample snitching is real and if i had to choose id rather whosampled to not exist and figure s*** out by myself. basically i want it to remain what it is without involving big bucks into it
i think this spotify integration is gonna be a big headache for licensing because it basically involves labels probing into who samples who and whether they bought the rights to do that or not
they (not spotify but anyone) should definitely buy genius or introduce a new place for lyrics and credits because genius been absolutely horrendous the last five years
- Nov 20, 2025
cryforhellI hate how Spotify has gamified music s***s wack
Why do I need to see who an artist sampled, how much monthly listeners and followers they have, how high they’re ranked amongst other artists, how much streams they get per song, etc.
Way too much transparency imo. Even though it’s the superior product I am an Apple Music loyalist cuz of bs like this
gamifying been there (i consider reading thru credits on vinyl while listening to the record gamification as well) but when spotify does it of course theres this very nasty spotify 'sheen' all over it that i dont appreciate
- Nov 20, 2025
katherine worldthe CIA buys ISIS
the cia created isis so it doesnt really make sense
Nov 20, 2025
TheFaderOn the flip side, the original artist might view the sampler as a d*** for using their own work without their permission
It’s all perspective
Yeah I’d say that artist is tweaking lol
- Nov 20, 2025
Jalen Brunson FanOr pay people for using the art that they make
pay labels*
Nessy 🦎Nov 20, 2025MidzySeems they bought it for this. Pretty cool feature
https://artists.spotify.com/en/blog/spotlighting-the-people-connections-and-stories-behind-your-music
Song Credits are just the start. We’ll also be rolling out SongDNA, an interactive view that maps out connections between songs, showing collaborators, samples, and covers all in one place. Spotify Premium listeners will see it in the ‘Now Playing’ view as a new way to explore, dig deeper into how tracks are connected, and trace a song’s creative roots. Samples and covers in SongDNA are powered by WhoSampled, which is now part of Spotify. With WhoSampled’s community-built knowledge, fans can dive into the influences behind the music they love, while giving sampled and covered artists fresh ways to get discovered and celebrated.
wild that they bought it when it could've easily been scraped
- Nov 20, 2025·1 replyTheFader
I’m confused what you mean by this
do u think it was impossible to make a boom bap beat without sampling other music
there were old hip hop songs without samples it’s not like this is the only point in history u can like not sample and make a rap beat - Nov 20, 2025·edited
Smacked VoodooPretty much it's just saying what the sample of a song is.
People fear it'll alert labels that own the sample to get songs taken down.
Part of me understands the frustration that can bring because obviously good songs end up getting deleted or unable to be released. Another part of me also feels the artists who get sampled are deserving of their credit and hopefully get percentage.
Unfortunately, many of the nerds who are on that "anti-sample snitching" s*** hardly even think of the latter though. They really just be on some loser gatekeeping s*** and fear that other producers will do a better job flipping a sample than they did.
Another part of me also feels the artists who get sampled are deserving of their credit and hopefully get percentage.
lou reed owned all royalties for his sample on can i kick it, the biggest ATCQ song ever. same with sting and some other rap song i dont remember the name of rn
its not 80 year old funk bassists who miss out on money. matter fact the guy who created amen break the actual drummer who did it absolutely loves that he created multiple entire genres and never saw anything from it but respect and love from thousands of artists
and to that same point there are literal unknown musicians who never amounted to absolutely anything but fifty years ago they music was featured in random ex-soviet cartoons where they didnt give a s*** about intellectual property and just took that s*** and ran with it. literal generations of kids know their songs, not even the dudes themselves but their songs from those cartoons. f*** what you think its bigger than any royalties check, its literal immortality
f*** publishing and f*** royalties -- let my children hear music
- Nov 20, 2025
DxtrGenius lost. How did they get behind the curve and get lapped
the entire org was ran by two reatards and one of them iirc killed hisself too. thats not why they lost but its been on the downslope for them for sure
- Nov 20, 2025
2wordsIntegrate the sample database with the streaming library and automate the process to catch uncleared samples
thats exactly whats going to happen lol theyre coming for these rappers
Nov 20, 2025ill never forgive the yeule discord for sample snitching on fax gang - goodbye. the original beat was sm better than whatever the f*** they replaced it with
Nov 20, 2025
properoh god don’t tell me theyre gonna replace
the youtube links w spotify links now
wow that would be so f***ing ass
Oh f***
Would actually ruin this site- Nov 20, 2025·2 repliesAndre Jaquet
do u think it was impossible to make a boom bap beat without sampling other music
there were old hip hop songs without samples it’s not like this is the only point in history u can like not sample and make a rap beatNo but hip-hop was conceived out of sampling. Rap songs during the 1980s were primarily (keyword, not all) made using other pre-existing songs. There would be no hip-hop if not for that decade.
I’m saying rap has progressed and evolved and morphed so much in the 40 years since then that:
1. There are a thousand ways to make a rap song now without sampling
And 2. If you do choose to use uncleared samples, you should be cognizant of the risk that comes in doing that
- Nov 20, 2025·1 replyTheFader
No but hip-hop was conceived out of sampling. Rap songs during the 1980s were primarily (keyword, not all) made using other pre-existing songs. There would be no hip-hop if not for that decade.
I’m saying rap has progressed and evolved and morphed so much in the 40 years since then that:
1. There are a thousand ways to make a rap song now without sampling
And 2. If you do choose to use uncleared samples, you should be cognizant of the risk that comes in doing that
yea but there were a bunch of ways to make a rap song without sampling by 2005 people don’t make rap songs with samples cuz they don’t know any other way or something lol sampling is just a great art form that’s a staple of the genre and sounds really good ! The only reason anyone post 1990 couldn’t make a rap song without sampling is because they didn’t know how to play keys or something! Or like didn’t know ppl that also played drums. Same s*** lol esp by like 2005
Nov 20, 2025shoutout to whosampled. Hopefully the site doesn’t become ass
- Nov 20, 2025·1 replyAndre Jaquet
yea but there were a bunch of ways to make a rap song without sampling by 2005 people don’t make rap songs with samples cuz they don’t know any other way or something lol sampling is just a great art form that’s a staple of the genre and sounds really good ! The only reason anyone post 1990 couldn’t make a rap song without sampling is because they didn’t know how to play keys or something! Or like didn’t know ppl that also played drums. Same s*** lol esp by like 2005
We’re saying the same thing in different fonts
- Nov 20, 2025·1 replyTheFader
We’re saying the same thing in different fonts
No bro because what ur saying applies to 90% of hip hop history lol there’s no reasoning to say oh now is a unique time cuz u don’t HAVE to sample in that case
- Nov 20, 2025Andre Jaquet
No bro because what ur saying applies to 90% of hip hop history lol there’s no reasoning to say oh now is a unique time cuz u don’t HAVE to sample in that case
What I said was producers in 1985 were facing entirely different circumstances than producers in 2025 are. That is an unarguable statement of fact
Nov 20, 2025·2 repliesTheFaderNo but hip-hop was conceived out of sampling. Rap songs during the 1980s were primarily (keyword, not all) made using other pre-existing songs. There would be no hip-hop if not for that decade.
I’m saying rap has progressed and evolved and morphed so much in the 40 years since then that:
1. There are a thousand ways to make a rap song now without sampling
And 2. If you do choose to use uncleared samples, you should be cognizant of the risk that comes in doing that
But do you agree point #2 is lame as hell?
- Nov 20, 2025·1 replynotbrock
But do you agree point #2 is lame as hell?
Why is it lame ? Would you be okay with someone profiting off of your work without crediting you?
- Nov 20, 2025·1 reply
Bottom line
If some artist, Big or small makes a hit by sampling one of my songs then yes give me compensation
Other than that scenario who cares. Let people be creative, Even if it doesn’t live up to your personal standard for creativity
- Nov 20, 2025·1 replyJalen Brunson Fan
Why is it lame ? Would you be okay with someone profiting off of your work without crediting you?
How much is the profit?
- Nov 20, 2025·1 replynotbrock
How much is the profit?
Does it matter? You just agreed with me lol
- Nov 20, 2025notbrock
But do you agree point #2 is lame as hell?
No. Copyright law exists for a reason. If you choose to break that, you should be aware of the risks that come with it