Rather than risk a lawsuit, she said, some hip-hop musicians have abandoned sampling, once the genre's signature technique.
The song would be sampled by several hip-hop musicians.
If I were a hip-hop musician, I'd be listening very hard.
Durante's band bears no relationship to the hip-hop musicians of the same name.
Kid Acne is an artist, illustrator and hip-hop musician.
Axelrod's music has been sampled many times by hip-hop musicians.
But he sent thanks to the hip-hop musicians who had sampled his songs over the last decade.
Many of their early gigs were as a backing band for hip-hop musicians.
Those same tracks were later resurrected by countless hip-hop musicians from the 1970s onward.
"When it comes to the economics of culture," he said, "hip-hop musicians, in general, are not fools."
