Grim news for musicians from the legal arena.

The 'new rule' states that Hip-Hop artists must pay for every sample that they use to create their composition -- regardless of the size of the sample or how it has been altered.

Never mind Hip-Hopers that have the bling-bling to cough-up. What about drum-n-bass, an entire genre based on the break from an obscure soul single? The Winstons stand to serendipitously clean-up collecting royalties from all the tracks built upon cut-ups of a couple bars of drum solo from their single "Amen Brother".
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