Does someone ever beat you to a sample?  Does your plan to flip a song into something ridiculous go awry on the part of someone else?  Does someone else get all the money off your idea?

It's happened to me a few times throughout the years...

When I was a youngster (middle-school age), I frequently walked the halls of West View Middle School bumping the Red Hot Chili Peppers.  They had a tape out at the time called Mothers Milk, which both Rev. Jo$hua and Aaron Lamb (RIP) let me borrow until I eventually coughed up and bought it myself.

Buried on Side Two of Mothers Milk, there is a song called "Pretty Little Ditty."  A brief instrumental (less than 2 minutes), it features only John Frusciante and Flea on guitar, bass and trumpet, respectively.  Surprisingly, I enjoyed that song the most.

Not long after that, I started to become intrigued by something called "hip-hop" and the production thereof.  I said one day I was gonna get a sampler, and said when I finally saved up the $1.5 Million Dollars that samplers cost back then, one of the first records I was going to use was "Pretty Little Ditty."

At :34 seconds, there is a pleasant little four-bar loop:



Then a few years after THAT, these fuck-tards:



a) Sampled "Pretty Little Ditty."
b) Made a wack song.
c) Were all over MTV and the radio.
d) Got all the money off my idea.

THE END.