Word: superfreak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hammer can pretape his shows, and if the audience wants to see them that's fine. But if he samples the bass line to "Superfreak" by Rick James and makes millions from another artist's work while giving James no credit whatsoever, that constitutes plagiarism. Anyone who has heard both "Jamie's Crying" by Van Halen and "Wild Thing" by Tone-Loc can easily see that Tone-Loc in the most obvious sense of the word stole the guitar riff and drum beat (Van Halen, understandably, sued...
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