Well.. its a team effort

tbh most cats (including myself) and smaller labels... risk not clearing anything because they know they are only gonna sell under like 25k-30k albums.

That used to be the logic because you felt you weren't making enough bread to afford it...

But Sec.80 (The secret interscope album) definitely sold well and they probably should've cleared what they could especially since so many of the samples were recent songs..

Maybe they thought contemporaries wouldn't sue because they knew what the grind was.. ionno

The easiest way around this woulda been to reach out to the cats early get their blessing and/or feature them on the track..