Queen denied their sampling to the “Gangster Rapper”

THE Queen They have forbidden “gangster rap” artists to sample an unspecified song of their repertoire following the fear of “promoting violence or abuse”. Sir Brian May He said that the British rock band decided to say no to certain requests for samples because he believed it was the right thing right to do.

The seventy -seventh guitarist revealed that the band – at the time made up of himself, by the drummer Roger Taylor, the bassist John Deacon and the deceased singer Freddie Mercury – refused a specific request because he believed that the text of the song within which the band’s musical fragment would be used, was not in line with their thoughts.

In an interview with Mojo magazine, he said: “We prevented our music from being used to promote violence or abuse, during the maximum splendor of the rap gangster when someone wanted to champion it in a song that we considered offensive towards women”. “But for the rest, our songs are for everyone. All art is a theft,” he concluded.

In another part of the interview, Brian spoke of the inheritance of Queen music. Initially Brian was not a fan of the 1979 group single “Don’t Stop Me Now“Because he did not approve of Freddie’s text, which celebrated his hedonistic lifestyle.

However, May’s opinion on the song has changed due to the way fans and the public generally interpret the song. When asked if Brian feels protective towards Queen’s songs after they became public domain, the guitarist replied: “At the time I did not feel comfortable with ‘Don’t stop me now’, probably for all the right and wrong reasons.” I think I have resisted for a long time to understand why people liked.

Brian and his bandmate Roger Taylor They continue to go on tour like Queen, with the second classified of “American Idol” Adam Lambert In the item instead of Freddie, who died in November 1991 at the age of 45 from complications related to the diagnosis of AIDS.