Despite being in the hip hop genre and releasing multiple mixtapes and albums the rapper has only used a single digit number of samples across her discography. Does she deserve more credit for her avoidance of sampling in a sample obsessed world?

 

Edited September 26, 20233 yr by GraceRandolph

???? Her work isn’t selling so no, she doesn’t deserve “more credit”…the only way you could argue that was if she had hits/work that sells. 

Because SHE herself is the sample, look at all these Cupcakke remixes 

To achieve what?

Bad gyal don't sample nobody like what

the blueprint 

17 minutes ago, Big Bad Wolf said:

Bad gyal don't sample nobody like what

27 minutes ago, Black Jesus said:

???? Her work isn’t selling so no, she doesn’t deserve “more credit”…the only way you could argue that was if she had hits/work that sells. 

She debuted in the streaming era, and has certified singles as an independent artist.

Because you have to be able to pay for that 

I wish there was a day in this site where I didn’t come around some stupid ass sh*t. Unfortunately not today. 

Samples are expensive. This isnt the old days where you make a mixtape to flex for your competition. You made no money off those mixtapes unless you were outside broadway/Lafayette putting CDs in peoples hands and tricking them into buying it.  She wanted to monetize those mixtapes so she couldn’t use a sample. 

she is the queen of music, people want to sample HER 

She can’t afford to clear them

Just now, punisher said:

She can’t afford to clear them

She cleared a Britney sample on her debut album. She just doesn’t need to use them. 

nowhere in the OP did it say she was massively commercially successful so idk why some people had to immediately deflect to sales. that wasn’t the point at all 
 

anyway yes, clearly she and her producers do what they can to maximize her INDEPENDENT art 

 

talent and ownership of her material >>>

Because she's a true artist that ends a lot of our faves effortlessly lol. Give her just a tiny percentage of budget some of the big girls get and she'd be a unstoppable 

7 hours ago, Mariya Takeuchi said:

y'all always gotta bring up sales when discussing artistry

And y’all gotta bring up samples when discussing artistry and act like using samples makes you less of an artist. It’s stupid. 

10 minutes ago, Black Jesus said:

And y’all gotta bring up samples when discussing artistry and act like using samples makes you less of an artist. It’s stupid. 

No one said that

Population doesn’t need her music… Surprised?

12 minutes ago, ASC said:

Population doesn’t need her music… Surprised?

Every last one of your faves has a Cupcakke remix of one of their songs. Surprised?

 

2 hours ago, GraceRandolph said:

Every last one of your faves has a Cupcakke remix of one of their songs. Surprised?

 

Exactly! She's literally in every remix. Personally, I think she deserves a-lot of credit. 

not surprised; don’t care 

You don't need samples when you're talented 

12 hours ago, ontherocks said:

Because you have to be able to pay for that