The tune of the chorus from "The Show Goes On" by Lupe Fiasco was obviously stolen from "Float On" by Modest Mouse. Amirite?

+173 The tune of the chorus from "The Show Goes On" by Lupe Fiasco was obviously stolen from "Float On" by Modest Mouse. Amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's not stealing, it's called sampling.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Before I knew what song it was I got so confused as to why modest mouse was playing on a hip hop station.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They signed over rights...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well dang. I thought it was a remake or something!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Sometimes ill be singing one, then switch to the other. I'm just like, lolwut.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My friend tried to download the Lupe Fiasco version and accidentally got the original and complained that someone made an indie rip-off of Lupe Fiasco's song. I nearly had a brain hemorrhage.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I knew there was something familiar about The Show Goes On.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No... shit. I like both songs though so I don't care.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It was kinda stupid.... I was real pissed when I heard Lupe on the radio because I sang tje real song before to my sister and she was like "Man, that sucks." the she's singing along to this dumb song that is pretty much a remake....

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It was basically just a remix, they didn't steal anything.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It kind of sounds to me that Modest Mouse got their name from Modeste Moussorgsky, the composer.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Their name is derived from a passage from the Virginia Woolf story "The Mark on the Wall" which reads, "I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself, for those are the pleasantest thoughts, and very frequent even in the minds of modest, mouse-coloured people, who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises."

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Sampling is not stealing...hip hop's roots are in sampling other records. Far from stealing.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It was not stealing, it was sampling. Hip-Hop artists have been doing it since the beginning. The Beasty Boys had samples in most every song. Kanye West(probably the biggest Hip-Hop icon right now) samples tastefully all the time, not just with songs, but with movie lines too.

by Anonymous 12 years ago