I'm sure you remember Andra's track "White Swans" that we posted a few weeks ago. Now her first mixtape "Loveis4Suckaz/I'maSucka4Love" is available for download! You can listen to it in the player that's embedded after the jump and if you like it, download it!
Hot.
ReplyDeleteAnd talented. Didn't think I'd be able to enjoy this stuff. But this mixtape is good.
ReplyDeleteWHAAAAT??!?! this is free?!?!?! soooo good.
ReplyDeleteThat Lupe verse sounded better on Eva's track, Slow Down.
ReplyDeleteAndra doesn't sound too bad though.
at work & can't download the tape onto my work computer, but i've been jammin to this playist ever since you posted it. thank you!
ReplyDeletewhy's she pretending those are features though?
ReplyDeleteshe's not pretending. look at drake's thank me later mixtape (the one with you the f-in best on it) or la roux's latest tape that got over a million downloads. they're both full of features that have been sampled from other songs. almost every major mixtape has "features" on it. that's what mixtapes are. there's no other way to put it when you use somebody's verse. with lupe? starring lupe? and lupe? in musical terms, "featuring" is what people use whenever they sample a verse--unless the sample is a part of the music, in which case it's listed as songwriting/production.
ReplyDeleteshe's not pretending. look at drake's thank me later mixtape (the one with you the f-in best on it) or la roux's latest tape that got over a million downloads. they're both full of features that have been sampled from other songs. almost every major mixtape has "features" on it. that's what mixtapes are. there's no other way to put it when you use somebody's verse. with lupe? starring lupe? and lupe? in musical terms, "featuring" is what people use whenever they sample a verse--unless the sample is a part of the music, in which case it's listed as songwriting/production.
ReplyDeletedrake's mixtape " So Far Gone" had 2 fake features and they aren't the same as this because he was using THOSE beats and THOSE people's songs (ie Lykke Li and Santigold) he didn't take acapella's from other songs and blend them onto new beats and pretend they had it. Using a rap verse is ridiculous and incomparable to what you're saying.
ReplyDeletea hook is one think (like Unstoppable by Drake (Santigold)....but again...a VERSE...is stupid. No one samples verses. Go find me a Drake song that SAMPLED another rapper's verse....SMH
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ReplyDeleteI think there are different ways of doing things, and her team chose to do it this way. No matter how artists do it - whether they've sampled a track, or a chorus, or a simple verse - they often list the sampled person as "featured" in the song name. I've seen this dozens of times. And there's something to be said about sampling mere verses over entire musical progressions or vocal choruses. I actually respect this approach, because all of the songs are original on her mixtape are original - whether you like it or not, her work stands alone without the verses, whereas if you remove everything that has been sampled out of many other people's mixtapes, you'd be left with nothing. Anyhow, I'm a fan because I'd like her music with or without the verses, and you can't blame someone for something their marketing team probably came up with.
i can't find you a drake song that sampled another artist's verse, but i can find you multiple jay z songs that sampled other artist's choruses, kanye songs that sampled other artist's entire tracks, ice cube songs that sampled other artist's music, and at least 16 of your favorite lupe songs that did the same--music, chorus you name it! (search "every lupe fiasco sample ever" on ytube) there's nothing wrong with this. sampling is a beautiful art, and how music remains communal. if you want to strip this little girl or her producers of their sampled verses, then you'll also have to strip a number of your favorite rappers of their music, drums, choruses, etc. (many of whom don't even give upfront credit to those they sampled from...you've gotta bury deep into their CD booklets to find out it's not all original.)
ReplyDeletebut whatevs. i love this mixtape. to each his or her own.
again you aren't listening to me.
ReplyDeleteSHE PUT verses from other songs on her songs. Go find me a Jay Z Kanye or Lupe song that did that. WTF are you talking about. Sampling to make a beat is not the same as taking a verse off of another current song and using it like it's yours. That'd be like if Lasers came out and a track had Kanye's 2nd verse from Power on it and said ft. Kanye West. That just wouldn't happen.
NOONE does that. at least not any respectable artists.
Dear Stupid:
ReplyDeleteThe track does have Lupe's old song on it, but this song is from Andra's mixtape. Most mixtapes use beats, hooks, lyrics, etc from other songs/artists. Even the most famous artist do this on their albums, for example, Cassidy: "I'm a Hustla" is from "Dirt off Your Shoulder" by Jay-Z. Beyonce's popular Single Ladies dance was copied from Bob Fosse. T.I. "Why you Wanna" was copied from Q-Tip "Till It's Gone." Jay-Z “I got 99 problems” the title and chorus are taken from Ice-T's "99 Problems.”
If you have taken any marketing /business courses you would understand why this is done by all artist even famous ones. Music is a business. If you are an unknown artist, how do you become known? If you are famous artists how to you stay successful? I have a degree in marketing so I will explain for u lol.
In business there are two definitions for “new product” (1) an innovative idea or product, (2) taking the same product and making it different. Most companies take a product that was successful in the past, add a few changes to it, and put it on the market. WHY? because it is less risky. We already know the product was successful, so it probably will be successful again. For example look at Apple, each year they come up with a new iPhone instead of creating a brand new phone. The new iPhone the same features as the old plus new features. People liked the old iPhone went out and bought the new iPhone.
This explains why music artist copy other successful songs, beats, lyrics. This explains why every single business takes old products to make them new again. By business definition Andra’s song is a new product whether or not there is an old verse in it. In the same why that the iPhone 4g is new even though it has the same features as the iPhone 3g.
P.S. Stupid: There is no difference between using a verse or a beat of another artist because in both ways u are using someone’s material. You are basically saying that if an artistic takes a beat from another song this is not copying material, which is not true because you are copying material.
GO TO BUSINESS SCHOOL BIATCHES.
"Daydreamin'" is the Grammy Award–winning third single taken from Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor album and features soul singer Jill Scott and music from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, the Danse de Cygnes. The single is based around a sample of "Daydream in Blue" by I Monster, a song that heavily samples "Daydream" by Gunter Kallman Choir (which in itself is a cover, the original being written by The Wallace Collection).
ReplyDeleteThere are three or four levels of sampling in this Lupe song, yet it won a grammy and was praised by many. There is no difference between sampling a verse, sampling a track, and sampling a chorus. If you're upset that Andra sampled a verse, you should also be upset that other artists have sampled music, lyrics, and vocals from other songs. A great current example is the song "Swagga Like Us" by T.I., Kanye West, Lil Wayne, and Jay-Z. The entire chorus is sampled from MIA's paper planes. So these guys sampled an entire chorus, which repeats at least three times in the song, and Andra sampled a verse, which repeats only once, and you're only mad at Andra? These guys made money off of somebody's creativity, and Andra's mixtape is free, and you're only mad at Andra? Jay Z's "Hard Knock Life", "I just died in your arms", and "Forever Young" do the same thing.
Your only valid argument, miss/mister, is that nobody (that you know of) has sampled a verse before. That's not even an argument! Since when is it bad to do something that nobody has ever done before? When hip hop artists first began sampling old-school songs, nobody had ever done it before, and haters like you probably gave them a load of crap for it. But look at music now. We wouldn't have LUPE FIASCO, Tupac, Jay Z, and most of your pop and rap faves if it weren't for sampling and for people doing something that has never been done before.
Plus there are no rules for mixtapes! Since when do you decide what is and isn't allowed?
It seems to me that you have a personal vendetta against Andra, because multiple people have presented more valid argument than yours as to why her sampled verses aren't a big deal. Read & understand.
no personal vendetta...all your arguments are still invalid. It's a verse from another song. It's not the same as sampling. NOT THE SAME. It's not sampled, it's lifted and reused. I'm a Hustler SAMPLES Jay's vocals into a hook, chopping it in new ways. Jay-Z didn't USE Ice-T he RESAID IT. If she had made Lupe into the chorus...fine, but using his verse from a very rare song and pretending that he did the verse FOR your song is some false flaggin ass bullshit. The song is dope, just didn't need to steal a verse from another song. And all of your inane arguments are trying to say the same shit, but failing to realize the difference between sampling and using a verse.
ReplyDeleteoh and Swagga Like Us....pretty sure MIA gave that sample clearance and then performed the song at the Grammy's...hmmmmmmmmmm
cosign ^^ that's some dumb shit in those arguments. Copying a dance or appropriating a hook is not the same as using SOMEONE else's feature. That shit was Eva's shit. If you were an artist and you made a song and someone as dope as Lupe DID A VERSE FOR YOU, how would you feel if someone else put it on a new beat and acted like it was theirs?
ReplyDeletethis is a mixtape, not an album, and people can do whatever the f they like. la roux's team marked her lazerproof mixtape the same way andra's team did--"featuring drake, gucci mane, etc." although the features are fake. read the articles, check her website. nobody's trying to trick anyone. andra's peeps even say in an interview that they originally created the songs without the verses, and then DJ Dirty Harry chopped the verses up & put them in the songs. those of you on the underground scene know that he is famous for doing this sort of thing, or for chopping multiple verses together to make one, flowing song.
ReplyDeletebut i think her songs are hot with or without the verses so there's no point in hating.
idk how im feelin about this Lupe killed his part tho drake killed his verse 2 but its jus not my type of music but i don't hate on anyone i hope she does have a successful career
ReplyDeleteLOL SHIT i thought she actually got them to spit an original verse but like most mixtapes its jus a remix my bad
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