Kanye west sampled some of my music! I think

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Since I don’t own the rights to the remix I can’t sue, I can patent the method, but that won’t get me in the industry

Kanye west - fuck sumn, is the song with high bass notes with an effect

The high bass notes were a staple of mine for a while, what does everyone think…? Been mailing cds and tapes and emailing and calling places for years and it’s either the cold shoulder, or the run around. I think they found my music when I emailed a bunch of stuff to sony

What does everyone think? I’m really jumping the gun here

And it would’ve cost me like 30k for rights so I can stream it his Ariana grande remix for 20$ a month

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Call him out on twatter

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I’m cool with it since there’s not much I can do, but fucking awesome, someone read my emails lol

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Kanye? A thief? Say it ain’t so.

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Also that doesn’t sound like anything that hasn’t been done before. I’m not sure what you’d be able to claim here. A couple simple effects really. Also streaming Kanye’s “fuck sumn” will give him 0.003 cents so if you stream the song technically you’re supporting a nazi platformer. Similar situation to how I feel everytime i’d plant a BeLeaf seed and think damn this wife beater fuck.

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lol. That mix is rough. I imagine there was a lot of red in the volume indicators. Did you filter out the low / clashing frequencies of the original song?

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i gotcha, but yeah, think i jumped the shark. havent really heard that variation of a bass on spotify, been emailing bgm, sony, stern and bbc my audio and no response

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i have a soundblaster x4 hooked up to decent speakers, theyre old but they sound nice, i got a good 150$ bass and i was just making music for myself, tried to seo spotify for organic views and got pissed when i realized it costs a ton of money to license a major pop song (unless im wrong? anyone?)

i made like 200$ off a spotify ad for organic streams, think i spent 350$ on it…

but yeah, its made for my speakers! lol

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Getting a mix to sound good across a range of systems is tough. I never tried to sell anything, but I got way into making beats and weird remixes about 10 years ago. Most of it sounded horrible, but I didn’t really care about proper mixing or mastering until a few years in. Even then I was never great at it.

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Very true. A producer I work with spends a minimum of $600 for online song/single promotion, just to make pennies back per stream. It strokes his ego though, and if you spend enough on promotion, you will get listens.

He did say never make a song longer than 3 minutes for Spotify. You only get paid for that. After 3 minutes, you aren’t making any money per play.

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@CocoaCoir isn’t he technically an antisemite not a nazi

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I said nazi platformer. He promotes Nazi’s. Here’s a good video that breaks down the logic.

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Good breakdown

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most of my remixes have been so-so, you really gotta work and listen to the same song. and be sure to buy your software!

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I think the deal I paid was good with the Spotify hacker. I had 1 listener for like 2 months and made decent money.

I got my music on Spotify using distrokid but they fucked the audio up on purpose

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What do you use? I’m an Ableton man myself.

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