I see so many songs with 3-5 or more listed in the credits. I always thought sometimes one person wrote music, and another wrote lyrics. Why can it take around 5 people to write a song?
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A lot of the time it’s because if you sample a song you have to credit all the songwriters of the original sample.
You sample a song that samples another song, you still have to do that. Even if the sample doesn’t contain the original sample.
An example is Drake’s Nice for What, which samples Lauren Hill’s Ex Factor. In a completely different section of that song, that samples Wu Tang Clan – It can All be So Simple. Which itself samples a cover of the Way We Were.
So you end up with every single artist and writer on that chain being credited as songwriters. Including the many members of the Wu Tang Clan. Despite the fact there is not even homeopathic traces of the Way We Were in Nice for What.
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