@amirsaid

Writer/publisher/recording artist. Co-Founder, Superchamp Books. Founder: BeatTips. Books: The Art of Sampling and more. [email protected]

 New York • Paris
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Joined August 2008
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Now is a great time to read ‘Ghetto Brother,’ the memoir of Benjy Melendez, published by @SuperchampBooks. Instant download now available. amazon.com/Ghetto-Brother-Fo…
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1/ Re: Kendrick Lamar’s “The Heart Part 5” and Marvin Gaye’s “I Want You” — It’s NOT a sample. It’s a *replay and an *interpolation. A *replay is when musicians “replay” the music, essentially make a cover version (or parts thereof) of the original song. That’s not *sampling.
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3/ Re: the *interpolation being a slight change of the original chorus, think Nas singing “STREET dreams are made of…” “Street Dreams” is an interpolation of the Eurhythmics song “SWEET dreams.”
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4/ So listen to the hook on “The Heart Part.” It’s NOT the actual hook from the Marvin Gaye song “I Want You.” It’s an *interpolation — Kendrick reshaped the context and it’s sang slightly different.
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Between Billie Holiday and Aretha Franklin, there was Dinah Washington. 🧵
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11/ Dinah Washington’s trailblazing work and insistence that Black music artists have the same opportunities to perform in big arenas is one of the reasons Black music artists are able to perform at bigger performance venues today.
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12/ Dinah Washington trusted Ruth Bowen, another Black woman in business, at a time when others sought to partner only with white booking agents who typically boxed Black music artists in and narrowed their career arcs, never believing they could fill the same venues as whites.
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This is INSANE. He has to put up $100 in Tesla shares for every $20 in borrowings! Say What now?😮 “$62 billion in Tesla shares to back the loans.” PLUS a potential margin call if Tesla stock falls below 43%. These terms mean only one thing: Lenders think he might balk.
Matteo Franceschetti
@m_franceschetti26 Apr 2022
Elon will use Tesla shares as collateral to pay for a part of Twitter with a loan-to-value ratio of 20%. He would face a margin call if Tesla shares drop >43%
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That time Isaac bagged Roxy Blue on the Love Boat.
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A question of bad timing and competing visions. @sarafischer reports on the pending doom (dismantling) of CNN+, which was just recently launched with $300 million already spent and “100s of jobs to support the service.” axios.com/discovery-cnn-plus…
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