[Rumori] "It's Your Birthday"

[stAllio!the original wanksta]

i meant to post this to the list, but accidentally sent it just to
peter:

-----Forwarded Message-----
>--- PeterALopez <pl1x at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Here's your Copyright Infringement Notification....
>>
>http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/5/50_CENT_LAWSUIT?SITE=1010WINS&SECTION=ENTERTAINMENT&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
>> 
>> "Rapper 50 Cent stole some of the lyrics for his 2003 hit "In Da
>> Club" from a song by former 2 Live Crew frontman Luther Campbell, an
>> attorney claims in a lawsuit.
>>
>> ...anyone know these songs, are they really complaining about the
>> phrase "it's your birthday" or is there something else.  gotta love
>> lawyers making livings off protecting old music from being heard
>> anew.
>
>they're talking about the chant 50 used at the beginning of the song,
>the one that starts "go shorty, it's your birthday!"  and i don't
think
>they mean the whole four lines of 50's chant, either.  they just mean
>that one phrase: "go ______, it's your birthday!"
>
>the "go _____, it's your birthday" chant has been in the popular
>vernacular for at least a decade, even appearing in tv commercials at
>one point.  it was so ubiquitous i had always assumed it was an urban
>folk chant, and it hadn't occurred to me that it might have come from
a
>popular song.  but the timeframe sounds right, and listening to the
>sound sample at cduniverse, it's definitely the same chant.  so while
i
>can't say whether luke truly wrote the chant, he probably did
>popularize it.
>
>here's a mefi thread where several people suggest that luke
>coined/popularized that phrase: 
>http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/25109
>

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