#FreshRadio Lineup #TGIF October 19, 2012

On October 19th, 2004, Hip-hop legend Roxanne Shante filed a lawsuit against Janet Jackson, claiming her voice was sampled without permission on Janet’s Damita Jo album.

• The song “Like You Don’t Love Me” contains a sampled clip of Shante’s voice saying “so fresh.”
• Shante said she only contemplated the lawsuit after a representative for Jackson called her and said it wasn’t her voice that was sampled.
• Shante, who has owned the masters to her own recordings for almost a decade, said this wasn’t the first time she’d had to deal with  sample clearances.
• The words have been used in countless hip-hop songs and have appeared on popular break-beat vinyl compilations.
• Most people assume the words come from Biz Markie’s “Nobody Beats the Biz,” which also sampled the original record.
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Noon: Legends at Noon #BeeAlert

2p est: #TheExperience with the Supafunkregulata Celo (DC)

3p est: Dailed In with DJ Mr Cham

4p est: Eargams with DJ Jaycee (Detroit/Atl)

5p est: Fresh Radio Mixtape with DJ Bee (Philly/VA/SMC)

6p est: Tribe LIVE from the House Of Blues