STRAIGHT TO HELL

the sound that comes in at 00:22
sounds like one used in
B.I.G (I Got a Story To Tell)

I like the clash but MIA is one of the few modern pop artists I actually like but whatever.

It just proves that hip hop and DJing are uncreative crap... And yes... Music died a long time ago...

All you ahters are retards.

yes clash did it first, but they defintly allowed any sampling that took place, and were paid for it.

sampling is a legitamate technique in DJing, and flows all the way to teh roots of hip hop.

It not stealing , get it straight.

clash gets paid for it..

i think mia took the beginning of this song to pay tribute to the clash

@Dragonslayer6001 i still like a lot mia´s music, and the musics only look alike during few seconds...the musics talk about real different things

Yeah it makes sense man i personally hate most hip hop because they take already existing songs and do stuff that don't sound too good. Like Flo Rida, who took spin me round and totally fucked it up. And yeah MIA is alright but i feel when something is not in your area of music that you like you don't tend to like it for whatever reason mine would be not liking MIA for this.

It's about using existing tunes to create something new and fresh. Not "taking originality out of music". Far from it. Everyone gains experience and influence from somewhere. If music stayed how you liked it then it would have died a long time ago.

I understand your logic and where you are coming from. Influence is obviously the biggest part of music and we would not get very far without it, but it's also about generating new ideas for music. That's where the whole idea of originality comes into action. I, for one, hate artists who come out with songs that sound similar to ones they have previously released. But it's their music and are entitled to what they do. I just think that when the time comes people should know when to be original.