Was wondering, did P have plans to put out the New Funk Sampling set and regarding royalties etc. would he have let say Dre or Quik or another Hip Hop producer of the time use the samples without paying any additional royalties on his music?. I think it was advertised for like $700 which if you consider someone like Dr Dre, to use as an example, could have made a #1 hit record using some of the samples on the set, it seems kinda not a well thought out decision from a business standpoint to let go of that amount of potential royalty checks for just 700 bucks. Unless the New Funk sampling set was for fans to make remixes or something.

thetimefan said:

Was wondering, did P have plans to put out the New Funk Sampling set and regarding royalties etc. would he have let say Dre or Quik or another Hip Hop producer of the time use the samples without paying any additional royalties on his music?. I think it was advertised for like $700 which if you consider someone like Dr Dre, to use as an example, could have made a #1 hit record using some of the samples on the set, it seems kinda not a well thought out decision from a business standpoint to let go of that amount of potential royalty checks for just 700 bucks. Unless the New Funk sampling set was for fans to make remixes or something.

It was first promoted to be available for $700 as a one-off purchase, with no additional royalty payments:

http://www.princevault.co...ing_Series

stevenevermind said:

Anyone remember the online advert for this?

It's on the "Rave un2 the year 2000" DVD.

http://www.discogs.com/Artist-Formerly-Known-As-Prince-Rave-Un2-The-Year-2000/release/2138106

"Disc contains full live show recording "Rave Un2 The Year 2000" (113 mins approx.), some video bonuses, text section "Freedom Newz" with two short articles "Work 4 Hire?" and "What Should Be Souled?" (criticizing recording industry copyright standards) and a promo/ad of 7CD sample library Newfunk Sampling CD Series entitled "Peep This!" (the library remains unreleased)."

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Very odd indeed.

In the early 90s George Clinton released 2 such CDs: Sample Some Of Disc (Sample Some Of Dat) vol 1 & 2. They were very expensive but WAY cheaper than Prince's. IIRC, it was around $100 a disc. Of course, GC is not as tight with control as Prince. I'm sure if Prince had gone through with his release he still would have tried to have some control over releases that relied on his samples. He just can't Letitgo...

I wonder if someone did use the samples whether Warner's would have jumped all over them chasing royalty payments?. Although I guess they would be re-recorded samples and not taken from the originals?. Or maybe it would have been a clever way for P to get his music over to the Hip Hop community akin to what James, George C & Roger's has been with the amount of times their music has been sampled.