Rather than risk a lawsuit, she said, some hip-hop musicians have abandoned sampling, once the genre's signature technique.

The song would be sampled by several hip-hop musicians.

If I were a hip-hop musician, I'd be listening very hard.

Durante's band bears no relationship to the hip-hop musicians of the same name.

Kid Acne is an artist, illustrator and hip-hop musician.

Axelrod's music has been sampled many times by hip-hop musicians.

But he sent thanks to the hip-hop musicians who had sampled his songs over the last decade.

Many of their early gigs were as a backing band for hip-hop musicians.

Those same tracks were later resurrected by countless hip-hop musicians from the 1970s onward.

"When it comes to the economics of culture," he said, "hip-hop musicians, in general, are not fools."