i'm not seeing where people are confused.


this me just spitting off the dome,
but this is how i see it.


an INTERPOLATION is when you take somebody else's musical idea
and replay it on the record... and incorporate it into your own composition.


lauryn hill was doing an interpolation of that delfonics's record
when she sang, "ready or not, here i come. you can't hide...
gonna findddd you, and take it slowly."

she was singing somebody else's melody,
and she was incorporating it into that fugee's record.
that's an interpolation.




a SAMPLE is when you take a part of somebody else's record
and play a snippit of it back in your own compisiition.

so timbiland was sampling the defonics "ready or not"
when he replayed back a portion of it in missy's "sock it to me."



a COVER is when you just do another version of somebody else's record. the jackson 5 was covering the delfonics "ready or not"
when they sang another version of the song. you have to pay for that too.


you have to pay for all of those.








what's happening here is none of those things.
pharell heard "got to give it up."

he made something in a similar style.





so what?
that's how art is made.
you can't copyright a style. or a vibe. or the feeling of a song.

this is a suit to prevent further legal action in the future.

you're just wrong.