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Granted, the Crimson has suffered some tough breaks. Freak missed shots down the stretch and the absence of players because of red cards has cost the Crimson wins...
...that I've exhausted the ideas/food metaphor, let's talk music. MC Hammer admitted that the "Dowmp, Da-Da-Dowmp, Da-Dowmp, Da-Dowmp" riff in "U Can't Touch This" was lifted from Rick James's "Super-freak," and gave credit where credit was due. But I could swear I've heard the first four notes of the riff in Falco's "Der Kommisar" and Paula Abdul's "Cold-Hearted Snake," too. Who's plagiarizing whom? How many possible notes and rhythms are there? Isn't copycatting inevitable...
...according to Cathy Bell, a Houston environmental communications specialist who was once married to "a redneck control freak" and found the courage to dump him after a liberating weekend trip with a girlfriend, "like seeing my life played before my eyes...
...beat that's now in a rapper's groove, or the recycled '60s riff in a current dance- floor hit. It's the steam heat of the early '80s hit Under Pressure recycled in the vanilla-rap hit Ice Ice Baby, and the streak of the funk classic Super Freak revived for M.C. Hammer's U Can't Touch This...
...credits. Two years ago, the rap group De La Soul was slapped with a $1.7 million suit by the '60s group the Turtles for using an uncredited bite of their 1969 song You Showed Me. M.C. Hammer avoided such problems by sharing credit with Rick James, who wrote Super Freak, before sampling the song for his platinum single, U Can't Touch This...