# Samples (recording-to-recording relationship)

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/samples-recording-to-recording-relationship/426368
**Category:** Style
**Tags:** recording, samples, relationships
**Created:** [May 1, 2019, 1:35pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/samples-recording-to-recording-relationship/426368 "2019-05-01T13:35:55Z")
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### Author: ![biocv](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/biocv/32/25412_2.png) [@biocv](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/biocv)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/samples-recording-to-recording-relationship/426368/8 "2022-04-19T19:18:12Z")

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> [@IvanDobsky](#):
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> I don’t think a “vocal sample” should be a Lyric credit. It is a sample, not a lyric. Maybe I am weird, but I see a sample as just another instrument. It is is a bit of musical noise he is using to make a new piece.

Like you, I am weird in believing that same thing. Sadly, we are the minority. Last time I asked, [the community consensus was](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/are-works-that-consists-solely-of-sampled-vocals-really-songs/) that if it can be sung along to, it is a song. In MB _parlance_, that means it has lyrics.

Do not resist, you will be assimilated 🤖

ETA: and to demonstrate that this not a totally invalid viewpoint, consider Black box, who [were sued](https://musicbrainz.org/work/bba3fcaa-13e7-4ff5-a749-771d07b61168) for sampling Loleatta Holloway’s “Love Sensation” and who re-recorded the song with the same lyrics sung by a different artist.

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