14 DAY TRIAL // Harlem Shake is more than an Internet craze / viral dance: with “Harlem Shake” the song (above), Baauer has climbed the charts and has been holding on to the top position for weeks. It’s no wonder then that those he sampled on the record want a slice of the pie.
Rolling Stone reports that two artists sampled on the dance track are taking Baauer and his record label to court over claims that they used their samples without permission and, by accident more or less, created one of the biggest fads online right now and made a lot of money.
They are Hector Delgado and Jayson Musson and their samples on the track are the phrase “Con los terroristas” uttered at the beginning of the song (lifted from the 2006 song “Maldades) and “do the Harlem Shake (taken from the 2001 song “Miller Time”).
No word yet on how much they’re asking from Baauer and the record label but Delgado at least seems determined to get himself a good deal.
“It's almost like they came on my land and built a house,” he says.