Lynx signee and talented singer and songwriter who performs under the stage name – KiDi has shared his opinion about sampling songs and believes that it is an integral part of making music.
During an interview with Berla Mundi, KiDi defended his label mate Kuami Eugene that it’s not a crime for him to be sampling songs and adding his own one or two verses to them as his own music project.
He also argued that the issue of sampling goes beyond being a taking a part of the original song and making it in your rhythm.
KiDi expressed worry that in the Ghanaian music industry, artists are untalented when they sample songs. He added that several musicians like Beyoncé and Micheal Jackson all over the world have been sampling songs.
A lot of musicians sample songs. Beyoncé and Michael Jackson also sample songs. Look at Kanye West, his album was sampled. It’s an integral part of any music.
He also confessed for the first time that his newest single, Touch It, is a sampled song from Musical Youths Pass the dutchie.
Source: Gossips24.com