Listen to both songs on WhoSampled, the ultimate database of sampled music, cover songs and remixes. Jay-Z sampled Jimmy Smith's 'Jimmy Smith Rap'. The piano being played sounds like it could be a Rhodes or a Wurlitzer however with the processing used on this track, it sounds like a Rhodes because of its soft rounded sound where as the Rhodes has more of a sharper sound, here is an article comparing the two. 'Pound Cake/Paris Morton Music 2' by Drake feat. get the money, dolla-dolla bill yallCash rules everything ar. Played through the track is a mellow low pitched electric piano filling out the middle to low-end of the track which follows the vocal sample melodically and the drums rhythmically. Released 2013From album 'Nothing Was The Same'ChorusCash rules everything around meC.R.E.A.M. For the drum programming there are only two elements, a short 808 style kick and a very short decay snare which is played on every 4th and 2nd beat.

The main sample is said to be pitched up by one semi-tone and around 30 cents then chopped into four vocal phrases played one after each other. All that other bullshit is here today and gone tomorrow.” Judge Pauley notes that Smith’s original “is an unequivocal statement on the primacy of jazz over all other forms of popular music” while Drake’s version turns it into “a statement that ‘real music,’ with no qualifiers, is ‘the only thing that's gonna last.The main vocal sample used in the track is Don’t Say a Word by Ellie Goulding and another recurring sample of Timbaland using the hook from C.R.E.A.M by Wu-Tang Clan (Ft. But jazz was, is and always will be.” In Drake’s version, it’s cut down to, “Only real music's gonna last. All that other bullshit is here today and gone tomorrow.

In the original, Smith says, “Jazz is the only real music that’s gonna last. Nothing Was the Same is the third studio album by Canadian rapper Drake.It was released on September 24, 2013, through OVO Sound, Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records, and Republic Records.Work on the record began in 2012 and continued through 2013. Pauley III broke down how the use of the sample constitutes fair use. Yesterday, a judge determined that the sample is fair use and therefore, there’s no liability for copyright infringement, THR reports. Back in 2014, Drake was sued for copyright infringement over the spoken word sample that opens his Jay Z-featuring Nothing Was the Same track “Pound Cake/Paris Morton Music 2.” The lawsuit was brought by the estate of jazz musician Jimmy Smith, whose 1982 song “Jimmy Smith Rap” gets prominently sampled on Drake’s track.

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