"Blurred L" by Rob Thicke feat. T.I. and Pharrell Williams sampled Marv Gaye's "Got to Give It Up". Listen to both songs on WhoSampled, the ultimate database of sampled mic, ver songs and remix.
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HOW SIAR IS ‘BLURRED L’ TO A 1977 MARV GAYE H?
* blurred lines sample marvin gaye *
The tate of Marv Gaye was sued by Thicke and Williams sce the duo believed the Gaye Estate had wrongly ma a pyright claim on their track, on the grounds that had borrowed heavily om Gaye's 'Got to Give It Up'. The song's alleged terpolatn of Marv Gaye's 'Got to Give It Up' was the subject of a high profile lawsu brought by the Marv Gaye tate agast Williams and Thicke. While the two nied the charge of pyright gement, they eely admted the song was fluenced by Marv Gaye’s track.
Dpe their prottatns, both Thicke and Williams were ultimately found guilty of gg the Gaye tate's pyright 2018. Dpe a lg om the urt that the song ged on the pyright of Marv Gaye's 'Got to Give It Up', the cisn has been wily cricised by milogists, micians and mentators. In a nversatn Rick Rub had wh Williams for GQ, he asserted 'Blurred L' was "nothg like" Marv Gaye's track.
” Multiple publitns approvgly noted what they lled a sample of Marv Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up. In this alternate universe, is probable—even likely—that the Marv Gaye tate would never have seen f to enter to ligatn. Talkg about the spiratn behd “Blurred L” the same GQ terview where he med about the pleasure of gradg women, Thicke said the followg: “Pharrell and I were the stud, and I told him that one of my favore songs of all time was Marv Gaye’s ‘Got to Give It Up.