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Erykah Badu Tweets Paul McCartney ASAP: Clear My Sample Please!

by Ben Deitz on February 26, 2010 at 10:25 AM

Bossy, cigar-chomping managers? Slimy, money-hungry lawyers? Clearly, Erykah Badu doesn't need either of these to take care of business. The take-charge, if not slightly procrastinating, singer recently got a Paul McCartney sample cleared for her next album, entirely through the power of Twitter.

With less than 24 hours to get the ball rolling, Badu managed to clear the sample of Wings' song "Arrow Through Me" for her forthcoming album 'New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh.' Badu sent out a distress tweet Wednesday night, telling her followers: "less than 24 hours or song wont make album . help . it will happen!!"

She then tweeted her way from socialite Zoe Kravitz to her father Lenny, then to his friend Stella McCartney, and finally to her father Paul. Eleven hours after that first call for assistance, Badu proclaimed proudly that Paul McCartney approved the sample, and thanked her fans and followers for their help.

Though it appears that the sultry singer shouldn't have waited until the eleventh hour for her to call Tyrone -- honestly, doesn't she have a rep who can help her with the legal stuff? -- Badu's feat is pretty remarkable, and demonstrates that she has a knack for online networking (if, sadly, not for naming albums). As impressive a feat as it is, however, we'd like to see an unknown, underground artist pull off the same thing. Get to it, indie musicians! Tweet your way to that Michael Jackson sample you've been dying to use. [From: Pitchfork]

Tags: copyright, erykahbadu, macca, music, paulmccartney, samples, socialnetworking, top, twitter, web, wings

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