PARIS, Jan 13 — Hip-hop pioneers De La Soul are finally releasing their classic early hits on streaming platforms from Friday after decades-long battles over their samples. The...
PARIS, Jan 13 — Hip-hop pioneers De La Soul are finally releasing their classic early hits on streaming platforms from Friday after decades-long battles over their samples.3 Feet High and RisingThe New York trio’s first six albums, dating from 1989 to 2001, have not appeared on streaming platforms because their label, Tommy Boy, never tackled the huge legal task of clearing all the samples .
De La Soul are well aware of the dangers of unlicensed sampling, having been at the centre of a landmark case in 1991 when little-known band The Turtles sued them for sampling one of their songs and won a reported US$1.7 million . But they recently told industry magazine Billboard: “It almost felt like we were being erased from history, because our music wasn’t up .”
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