[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by g.

Hallelujah

The insanely ubiquitous "Amen break". And yet:

The copyright owner of "Amen, Brother", including the Amen break, is Winstons leader Richard Lewis Spencer. Neither he nor drummer [Gregory] Coleman received royalties for the break, and Spencer was not aware of its use until 1996, when an executive contacted him asking for the master tape. Spencer condemned the sampling as plagiarism, and said: "[Coleman's] heart and soul went into that drum break. Now these guys copy and paste it and make millions." However, in 2015, he said: "It's not the worst thing that can happen to you. I'm a black man in America and the fact that someone wants to use something I created - that's flattering."

Coleman died homeless and destitute in 2006. Spencer said it was unlikely he was aware of the impact he had made on music. In 2015, a GoFundMe campaign set up by British DJs Martyn Webster and Steve Theobald raised £24,000 (US$37,000) for Spencer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break