![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() get the money, dolla-dolla bill y'all Cash rules everything around me C.R.E.A.M. Cash rules everything around me C.R.E.A.M. By doing so, it uses the copyrighted work for ‘a purpose, or imbues it with a character, different from that for which it was created.Finny Music Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted, in one moment Would you capture it or just let it slip? Yo, his palms are sweaty ( cash rules everything around me), knees weak, arms are heavy There's vomit on his sweater already: Mom's spaghetti He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting What he They'll never take me alive, I'm gettin' high with my four-five (wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud) Cocked on these suckas, time to die (He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out) Even as a youngster causin' ruckus on the back of the bus (He's choking, how? Everybody's joking now) I was a fool all through high school, kickin' up dust (The clock's run out, time's up, over-blaow!) But now I'm labeled as a troublemaker who can you blame? (Snap back to reality, oh, there goes gravity, oh) Smokin' weed helped me take away the pain (There goes Rabbit, he choked, he's so mad, but he won't) So I'm hopeless rollin' down the freeway swervin', don't worry (Give up that easy, no, he won't have it, he knows) I'm about to crash up on the curb ‘cause my vision's blurry (His whole back's to these ropes, it don't matter, he's dope) Maybe if they tried to understand me what should I do? (He knows that, but he's broke, he's so stagnant, he knows) I had to feed my fuckin' family what else could I do (When he goes back to this mobile home, that's when it's) But be a thug? Out slangin' with the homies (Back to the lab again, yo! This whole rhapsody) Fuck hangin' with them phonies in the club! (Better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass him) Got my mind on danger never been a stranger to homicide My city's full of gang bangers and drive bys Why do we die at an early age? He was so young but still a victim of the 12 gauge Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn ( live and learn) With the ink I could murder, word to my nigga Irv Yeah, I swear shit just started clickin' dog You know it's real when you are who you think you are In this manner, ‘Pound Cake’ criticizes the jazz-elitism that the ‘Jimmy Smith Rap’ espouses. Through both the alteration of the ‘Jimmy Smith Rap’ and the rest of the rap’s lyrics, ‘Pound Cake’ emphasizes that it is not the genre but the authenticity of the music that matters. Beyond the text of the lyrics themselves, ‘Pound Cake’ situates its sampling of approximately thirty-five seconds of the ‘Jimmy Smith Rap’ at the beginning of an approximately seven-minute-long hip-hop song in which Drake and Shawn Carter, professionally known as Jay-Z, rap about the greatness and authenticity of their work. On the other hand, ‘Pound Cake’ sends a counter message - that it is not jazz music that reigns supreme, but rather all ‘real music,’ regardless of genre. The message of the ‘Jimmy Smith Rap’ is one about the supremacy of jazz to the derogation of other types of music, which - unlike jazz - will not last. Taking on one element of fair use, it reads, “A work is transformative when it ‘uses the copyrighted material itself for a purpose, or imbues it with a character, different from that for which it was created.’ ‘Pound Cake’ does just that. The order goes into substantial detail in looking at the passage in question, which features Drake and Jay-Z rapping. The decision is unusual, not only because fair-use rulings are rare in songwriting cases, but also because in this era courts are largely favoring plaintiffs in cases like Robin Thicke and Pharrell’s “Blurred Lines” and Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse.” The news was first reported by The Hollywood Reporter. Drake’s song appeared on his 2013 album “Nothing Was the Same.” The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed today that Drake’s use of the 1982 recording “Jimmy Smith Rap” in his song “Pound Cake/Paris Morton Music 2” was fair use of the copyrighted work. ![]()
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