You rarely hear anyone cover the Beastie Boys. Is it because their songs rely so much on samples that they’re impossible to recreate legally without making a profit? How did they not get sued into oblivion with hundreds of samples used? Where do those royalties go today?

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Yeah. There isn’t a tradition of covering someone else’s rap because the rapper was originally supposed to be both writer and performer. A lot of Beastie Boys songs are written in that perspective.

    That being said, not all of their songs are like that and there is some cross genre mixing with rock. I can see Fight For Your Right or Sabotage getting easily covered.