{"id":19600,"date":"2023-02-17T21:02:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T05:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=19600"},"modified":"2023-02-17T21:03:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T05:03:10","slug":"sampling-or-stealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/sampling-or-stealing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sampling or Stealing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Written by:<b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mikayla Coleman<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rapper Matthew Raymond Hauri, infamously known by fans as Yung Gravy, has been releasing music since 2016. Hauri began releasing music for fun on SoundCloud while attending college. Since then, Yung Gravy has become a memorable name around college campuses, encapsulating a carefree, laidback attitude often paired with college life and encouraging its audience to not take life too seriously.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With popular songs such as \u201cMr.Clean,\u201d \u201cGravy Train\u201d and \u201cC&#8217;est la Vie,\u201d Yung Gravy\u2019s music combines modern trap music with callbacks to older, well-known soul songs, creating a\u00a0 unique and fun sound that captivates young audiences today. These borrowed, older songs, while being a pillar of what makes Yung Gravy\u2019s music charming and recognizable, have landed Yung Gravy into some treacherous waters, namely, being sued by \u201cNever Gonna Give You Up\u201d singer, Rick Astley.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The song in question is Yung Gravy\u2019s newest single, \u201cBetty (Get Money),\u201d released in June 2022. Included within the song is a brief hook including a vocal replication that sounds similar to the voice of Rick Astley, as well as an instrumental recreation of Astley\u2019s \u201cNever Gonna Give You Up.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Astley alleges that Yung Gravy and the studio engineers involved in the song\u2019s creation impersonated Astley\u2019s voice and falsely stated Astley\u2019s approval of the project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To avoid having to jump through the hoops of getting the song licensed for sampling within \u201cBetty (Get Money),\u201d Yung Gravy and studio engineers involved in the song\u2019s creation attempted to recreate the instrumental.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yung Gravy explained this thought process in an interview with Billboard in August 2022, \u201cMy boy Nick, who does a lot of sample replays and recreating original samples, we basically remade the whole song. Had a different singer and instruments, but it was all really close because it makes it easier legally.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unfortunately, Yung Gravy\u2019s understanding of this system may have been mistaken. Astley is seeking an unspecified amount of money for damages, including all gains and profits of their violation and attorney\u2019s fees. It is expected that the lawsuit will amount to millions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ruling of this case will set the precedent for artists that use sampled music or recreations within their work, a fairly common practice, especially in less popular music circles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author at howleditor@wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}