Big news over on Pitchfork yesterday. Not new-Radiohead-album-big, but pretty big.
In the world of hip hop sampling, pretty much everything has been covered. Diddy's sampled Bowie, Ghostface Killah has sampled Schoolhouse Rock, and everybody has sampled the Knight Rider theme.
However, there remains one giant, glaring omission in the world of sampling. No one has ever legally sampled The Beatles.
Yesterday, it was announced that the longstanding Beatles resistance to sampling had ended, and the first group to obtain legal permission to sample their music was... The Wu Tang Clan? I'm not making that up.
It was reported that the song to be sampled was "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", which will make up part of "My Heart Gently Weeps", a track on the upcoming Wu Tang Clan album. "Finally!", I thought, "the tastefully brilliant, understated guitar melodies of George Harrison's songwriting and Eric Clapton's soloing will be accompanied by The Rza spittin' game all over yo face."
Alas, it was not to be. Today, the Clan posted a note on their MySpace stating that they were very sorry, but by "sample", they meant "interpolation". And I'm pretty sure by "interpolation", they mean "interpretation", but I'm not going to correct them. They own guns, and are apparently nothin' to fuck with.
In any case, the Pitchfork correction has a link to an mp3 copy of the "interpolation" if you feel like checking it out.
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