Duran Duran - White Lines (Extended) (Official Music Video)

[IcyPeas]

1. The original original.....

Grandmaster flash borrowed a lot from this song by Liquid Liquid.

(If you want to listen click in the watch on youtube link. The video is great too... very NY 1982)

"White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Melle Mel, released as a 12" in 1983 on Sugar Hill Records. .... The bassline is taken from a performance of the Sugar Hill house band (featuring bassist Doug Wimbish) covering "Cavern", a single by the New York City band Liquid Liquid.[3]
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Some of the lyrics in "White Lines" ("something like a phenomenon" ) echoed lyrics from the song "Cavern" by Liquid Liquid ("slip in and out of phenomenon" ), in addition to the note-by-note appropriation of the bass line from "Cavern" with a rapping track overlaid. Sugar Hill did not get proper clearance to use "Cavern", resulting in years of lawsuits, ultimately in Liquid Liquid's favor. As a result of the $600,000 judgment against Sugar Hill, the label declared bankruptcy to circumvent paying the judgment.[3]

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