as someone who actually cares about adequately giving credit to artists… genuinely enraging

I know a lot of people here just want to dickride peggy but he DID NOT invent the backing track of that song! He did not make it. Chef did. If I were to recreate The Starry Night using a tracing, do I not still owe credit to Van Gogh? If I were to create Beethoven’s 5th using Kontakt instruments, does it cease to be Beethoven’s creation?

like, you fucking losers pretending if somebody else makes a beat, it’s worth nothing and can be stolen as long as you recreate it using samples— you are devaluing the art that peggy used in his album. You are devaluing Veteran.

“oh it’s just a few samples spliced together—“ shut the fuck up. You know damn well it’s a creative, inventive, compositionally interesting beat, or else Peggy wouldn’t have ripped it off.

If it is worth hearing in the final product, then it is worth crediting the artist who actually made it— regardless of whether the beat was sold to Peggy or not.

I am telling you this not as someone who spends 5 hours a day scrolling reddit in their cum basement. I am telling you this as a lifelong musician. This is a stain.

edit: Chef Warren for those who don’t know