I'm sure this story originates in Africa (as all human stories do) but to make things short I'll start with James Brown. James Brown wrote a guitar riff, which was copied by the Average White Band in a song called "School Boy Crush", Eric B. sampled the first five seconds of "School Boy Crush" and Rakim wrote some new words and they released a song called "Microphone Fiend", Rage Against the Machine took the words written by Rakim and wrote some new music and released a cover of "Microphone Fiend", Red Ant took the music written by Rage Against the Machine and recorded a version without vocals, which was covered by yours truly.
What a trip.
Microphone Fiend
Thursday, July 09, 2009
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