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This is really interesting, though actually the beat is a bit different ("One In The Chamba" has more beats, and more of a roll); 'tis the chord and the way it washes that's copied. I'm not as mad about this as you are, since I don't know if (1) Zico or whoever (I believe he produced but didn't write "Stay Alive") didn't pay for it, or (2) there wasn't some other source that "One In The Chamba" itself lifts from. And even if neither is the case, this is kinda what hip-hop and dancehall do, lifting whatever they can. Hip-hop originated from DJs lifting and manipulating breakbeats. Anyway, I actually prefer the D-Unit track.

I don't mean to be cavalier. Someone should probably pay someone else some money. But sometimes such concerns don't come into play until something's a hit, and "Stay Alive" never hit.

Reading the "One In The Chamba" thread, I see that there's a Wiz Khalifa track that used it on a mixtape. And mixtapes being mixtapes...