Hip Hop has become the dominant genre, black music has become onedimensional, stifling the balance and benefits of the others.

Most urban artists exercise no instrumental talent, so they are unable to bring raw melodies into existence. Instead, rap artists have convinced themselves that sampling beats and remixing is innovative.

Purists will argue that Solex's method isn't music--it's thievery. She didn't come up with the melody, didn't play any of the instruments, didn't sing a lick.

"You're stealing sounds, yes, but you can make it yourself--reverse it, stretch it. If you really copy a melody, that's more [like] thievery."

The experimental artist, however, is aware that the analysis of art has little to do with the act of creating it. That is, we cannot successfully incorporate new ideas into our work unless these ideas are generated out of our own process.

In fact, sampling is a much more serious offense than most people realize.

The sampled artists, songwriters, or record labels can come back with how much they will charge

Sampling—taking an artist’s music and using it to build a new tune—goes back at least to the Beatles and Pink Floyd, who used fragments of other songs

The sampled artists, songwriters, or record labels can come back with how much they will charge.

the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or element of a new recording.