Lupe Fiasco speaks on sampling Pete Rock "s "T.R.O.Y." on "Around
My Way (Freedom Ain "t Free)."
Although earlier this week it appeared that rappers Pete Rock and Lupe Fiasco
had cleared up their issues stemming from the release of Lupe’s “Around
My Way (Freedom Ain’t Free),” following an interview between Sway
Calloway and Lupe it appears that their issues have not been fully resolved.
A seemingly heated Lupe appeared on “Sway In The Morning” to share
his side of the story and explained his songs use of a sample from Pete Rock’s
“T.R.O.Y. (They Reminisce Over You).”
“We reached out to Pete in November, right? My team. It was my partner’s
idea,” Lupe explained. “He wanted to go back, take an iconic Hip
Hop record, flip it, breathe some life into it, and bring it back to new school.
That’s the whole point of it so we reached out to Pete…When we rap
over the original instrumental we send it to get cleared, Warner Chapel tells
us ‘No, that’s the publishing company.’ They tell us ‘You
can’t clear that. It’s unclearable.’ There’s portions
of that song that have never been cleared before ever. You have to remake it.”
Lupe later went on to speak on his phone conversation with Pete Rock which
consisted of himself and several other people and wasn’t as pleasant as
many may have assumed it was.
“The funny part is you ain’t even got to go through Pete Rock to
clear cause he don’t even own it,” said the rapper. "Then he
comes on Twitter the day after the joint’s released or it’s the
same day that it’s released and bodies me like that and bodies my crew
like that. And just shits on us like that. That’s foul. Then when we finally
get on the phone, we didn’t have a [good] conversation. We weren’t
on the phone like ‘Oh, I love you Pete at the end of the day.’ I
was hot. My crew was hot. The people who put it together was hot. The record
company was hot. He just wasn’t on the phone with me; he was on the phone
with six people. Like Pete what’s wrong with you? Going in on us like
that. We’re trying to pay homage to you.”
“Around My Way (Freedom Ain’t Free)” will be featured on
Food & Liquor 2 when it’s released in September.
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