Vanilla Ice
Ice Ice Baby

MrBlondNYC said on Sunday, 19 February 2012:
Everything is up to the song's owners. If they want credit, they get it. If not they don't. Usually, they want credit because they want people to know that's MY song. But most importantly, they want the money.

C.R. Brown said on Sunday, 19 February 2012:
If they don't have to give credit, why would they choose to? Only some records get their credit in the liner notes of the album, what is it about those songs that force artists to give credit to the artist, publishers, songwriters and label?

MrBlondNYC said on Sunday, 19 February 2012:
Song owners, I should say. In many cases, the songwriters get nothing.

MrBlondNYC said on Sunday, 19 February 2012:
It's not about credit, it's about payment. The original artists don't have to be credited as long as the songwriters get their requested fee. In some cases, the original artists or songwriters don't want credit because they don't want their names associated with the song.

Drpepperfan said on Sunday, 19 February 2012:
Nowadays they pretty much have to credit it all the time now, unless they want to get the s*** sued out of them.

Sure there are a ton of old 80's/early 90's songs that don't credit there samples at all, but that was a different time, when record companies didn't pay much attention. After stuff like the De La Soul / Turtles and Biz Markie / Alone Again cases, the companies started cracking down on the use of unlicensed samples a lot more, when they realised how much money they could get.

This particular case was notable mostly due to the fact that it was such a hit record, along with it's..... well, not very subtle sampling (sampling one of the most famous songs of the 80s and not crediting it? What could possibly go wrong?). That, and the whole arguing it WASN'T a sample thing. That was pretty hilarious.

C.R. Brown said on Sunday, 19 February 2012:
I still don't understand why he got sued for the whole “credit & royalty” thing. Is this the only song that doesn't credit it's sample? And were DJ's and producers really paying royalty for every record they sampled, now or then?

m.aimran91 said on Sunday, 04 July 2010:
Yes

Mario Toledo said on Sunday, 04 July 2010:
the best song vanilla ice

MrBlondNYC said on Friday, 28 August 2009:
"That little bitty 'ting'. It's not the same."

D3freeze said on Friday, 08 May 2009:
actually, he did not sample this.... If you listen closely, it goes... Dun dunn dunnna *Ding*.... that little ding changes everything.

"Theirs goes, 'Ding ding ding dingy ding-ding.' Ours goes, 'Ding ding ding ding dingy ding-ding.'"
-- Vanilla Ice, 1990


haha LOL