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ABOUT DJ KHALED'S 'STAYING ALIVE'...

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  Earlier this month, DJ Khaled shared his latest single, STAYING ALIVE , which interpolates Bee Gees classic with the same name .  An interpolation is a recreation of a song in a different record: The artist reproduces the melody of the interpolated piece. This must not be confused with the sample , that consists on putting in a new song a snippet of a different record. The point is that, in the sample, you reuse part of another song in a new track, while, in the interpolation, you reproduce or replicate the interpolated song. Both techniques are very usual on hip-hop and rap, where rappers need melodies to their tracks and they get them this way. One of the most famous is 2PAC's sample of the hit by Bruce Hornsby and the Range, The Way It is in the social Changes. Getting now to DJ Khaled, the producer and DJ has interpolated Bee Gees 'Staying Alive' on his new single with Drake and Lil Baby, after his chart- success with Latto's Big Energy, which samples Tom Tom

H.E.R. ESTABLISHES A NEW DIRECTION WITH DJ KHALED'S 'WE GOING CRAZY' (FT. MIGOS)

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 Dj Khaled dropped a new album almost two weeks ago ( Khaled Khaled ) , filled with famous collaborators (Justin Bieber, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Post Malone, Meghan Thee Stallion...). The third track on the project is We Going Crazy (ft. H.E.R. and Migos). It is the first release for the R&B singer since she received the Oscar for Best Original Song ( Fight For You from Judas and the Black Messiah ) and it consolidates the more urban direction H.E.R's career is taking.  H.E.R. gained popularity in 2017, with her single Focus, with smooth , soothing vocals and shimmering production. In 2017 she featured on Daniel Caesar's Best Part , which won a Grammy for Best R&B Performance and made both artists the face of a new trend of r&b, that was cleaner than the common contemporary and urban R&B , gave importance to soulful vocals and relied on more classic instrumentation.  In 2018, she received five nominations to the Grammys and ended up wining two (the one for Best Par