The Stones have been sampled before by other artists (incomplete, short list here: http://the-breaks.com/search.php?term=rolling+stones&type=0), so I wouldn’t say they’re concern is that Wayne is a rapper. The issue here is that Weezy is selling big numbers and they can get a fair amount of money out of him and his label (as you noted).

Well, they seem to be complaining that their sacred Rolling Stone classic has been desecrated by an explicit rap version. That’s what I was alluding to.

Hey, as long as they’re not being credited for the music, they can say whatever they’d like.

The song is obviously sampled. If Weezy used the song and didn’t ask permission, then the owners of the song have a valid beef. You can’t do that now-a-days. Especially with high profile artists like the Rolling Stones. Sad too. This one of the few songs on The Carter III that I actually liked.

BOO WEEZY SUCKS I CAN”T STND HIS VOICE, CHECK OUT YA BOY ANd lupe Feasico

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The legal complaint may be laying it on a bit thick, but the bottom line is that the Stones come from a small town called Get Paid and Wayne made them homesick. Several years ago a rock group called the Verve had a hit, Bittersweet Symphony, that sampled another old Stones song. And the Stones sued to get theirs. Genre doesn’t matter.

wayne. why u always doin something

Similar, but different beat. Different lyrics, Different song.

Fuck this lawsuit, hope weezy wins it.

“Similar, but different beat.”

If I recall correctly, this was, amusingly, Vanillas Ice’s reasoning… I need to find that video…

thats how it works my friend…they dont really give a shit about wayne’s lyrics…but the “moral” complaints in combination with the fact that Abkco should (and will) be paid for the use of their songwriter’s material….

dont get all fuckin weepy and play the victim…i love rap as much as anyone but i recognize business is business…u use someone else’s song…u are req’d to pay, esp on a platinum record…universal shouldnt have released it w.o. abkco’s permission

oh… and Maxwell Demon doesnt know what he’s talking about

rolling stones still live in get paid-ville (they are consistently one of the highest grossing bands in terms of touring EVER)….please see http://www.nme.com/news/u2/25204

while witty, you are full of shit

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wayne got so much money this stuff wont even phase him. Haters gonaa hate cuz wayne’s making CAKE!!!!!

I wasn’t saying the Stones were poor, I was saying that among the reasons they are rich is that they collect every dime they have coming to them.

Just because I’m full of shit doesn’t mean I’m sober.

sorry, but in this day and age, after all the lawsuits because of sampling… you gotta be stupid for not clearing your samples on a big album like this.

lol @ that pic of weezy. bugged eyed fool.

oh and LOL @ yall. you guys act like weezy is the one clearing the samples. if his people say its done, and its not, you cant really fault him. thats the label.

kahal u right weezy dont do the samples. Haters gonna hate weezys still gonna get that CAKE!!

that doesnt really sound the same at all, weezys version shits on the stones. and immortal technque had a song with sob thats just like that, i think its IT.

It really doesnt sound that much alike. i guess i can see somewhat of a similarity but i wouldnt really call it a sample.. and “theez”, u takin all this a lil too serious. Jus get off “The Stones” nuts for 2 seconds. At least come up for air!!

wow

fuck lil wayne

he can’t beat a classic and plus rap sucks nowadays

overall

classics > this shit

the songs have very little things is common, weezy f. baby will deff. win the case hands down.

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its tha shit and the rolling stones suck dick

What a moron, stealing a song that was on a platinum record (real records like before 8tracks), barely change it make some phrases appeal to retard kids of today, but keeps many of the same words in the song and the opening to each are identical. Most likely he downloaded a instrumental version and then used his computer to make some shitty beat after the first 30 seconds being to “similar” to a 50 year old song. That’s not sampling that’s pure plagirism.

theez—i second that. nose bleed tickets are 900 bucks for one ticket, you wanna sit front stage it’s like 2000. Oh and anybody that thinks wayne is gonna win is extremely disillusioned. The Verve never made music again after they lost horribly and they should have won. Go listen to the stones song cuz jeff is right. this nigger is a theif.