Lizzo then clarified that she believes "the origins of sampling…were racially charged" as hip-hop was built on sampling for much of the '70s and '80s. "The origin of sampling laws were racially ...

Lizzo has some strong feelings about sampling laws. The 37-year-old appeared on Million Dollaz Worth of Game, where, amid discussing the release of her latest mixtape, My Face Hurts from Smiling, she ...

The first time people started sampling was... who? It was rappers in the '80s and '90s. They were sampling records because they didn't have access to big studios" ...

Lizzo claims the origins of sampling laws were racially charged, arguing they were designed to police Black creativity and disproportionately target Black artists.

Joanna Demers, assistant professor of music history and literature, University of Southern California Is the creative appropriation of previously recorded music theft? Or is that act, better known as ...