Artist: A$AP Rocky
Genre: Hip-Hop/ Rap
I've decided on Canal St. by A$AP Rocky ft Bones, but I decided I wanted to change the song slightly to better suit my vision. I decided to add in a gunshot sound effect to emphasise my narrative about police brutality, and also part of Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech which is about racism in America.
To make sure I could actually use this song, I contacted RCA Records which works with Sony, and the whole of A$AP Mob to ask for permission. Below is proof of this.
I also wanted to make sure I could use the speech without copyright issues, so I did some research on that as pictured below.
The 'I have a dream' speech is actually copyrighted by the King family.
After doing this research, I think that I can use part of this speech through 'fair use' as I'm using it for educational purposes and the use of the material is transformative as I'm putting it into a song. If I was working at Industry Standard however, I would have to pay a licence fee to use the song legally.
I then decided to use software to play about with the song to get it sounding how I wanted.
As it's music, I was initially going to play around with Adobe Audacity, but I'm very confident using Adobe Premiere Pro so decided to use this as I was only making minor changes. Below are screenshots of the changes I made.
This is where I added in the gunshot noise. I had to adjust the pitch to make it match the rest of the song so that you couldn't hear the difference.
Towards the end is where I added the Martin Luther King 'I have a dream' speech. I wanted to still hear the hook of the song so I placed this underneath. You can hear both the hook and the speech and I think they work very well together.
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