“Publishing-wise, I probably get no money from ‘Buy U a Drank,’” the 38-year-old revealed this week.
It was one of his most popular songs. The catchy, flirtatious melody featuring Yung Joc was an instant club banger and hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart. But throughout the song, T-Pain, whose actual name is Faheem Rashad Najm, famously mentions other popular hip-hop songs, including “Walk It Out” by Unk, Lil Scrappy’s “Money in the Bank,” Lil Jon’s “Snap Yo Fingers” and more.
“When ‘Buy U a Drank’ like blew up, blew up, all them people and writers from them other songs [said] they were owed”“They said this is ‘Our money in the bank,’” T-Pain added with a laugh. “I was like paying homage.”“interpolation,” said entertainment attorney Drew Tawiah, which is when artists take part of an existing musical work and incorporate it into a new song without using any of the audio from the preexistingbut still requires an artist to pay publishing rights.
“There is value in paying homage because, from a listener standpoint, the audience will be able to pick up and identify with those lyrics. And that could be part of why the song did really well. The only issue is the people who made those other songs want a piece of the percentage,” Tawiah said.Mark Althavan Andrews, known professionally as Sisqó, released the 1999 hit “Thong Song,” but it’s
by Ricky Martin’s “Livin’ La Vida Loca” writer Desmond Child, because Sisqó sings nearly two minutes into the song, “'Cause she was livin’ la vida loca.”for making Auto-Tune a fixture of late 2000s music. Following “Buy U a Drank,” the Tallahassee native went on to become one of the most influential artists and producers of the mid-2000s, creating hits including “I’m Sprung” and “Bartender.
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