Speaking of sampling (and/or ripping-off), a while back I saw—to not much surprise—that Google did return pages in which people pointed out the remarkable similarity of John William’s theme music for the movie Jaws to the fourth movement (“Allegro con fuoco”) from Antonín Dvořák’s classical suite Symphony No. 9 .
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There has been a familiar tune in some television commercials recently that I could not place, though I was sure it was either Nightwish, E Nomine, or Eminem (yes, you read that correct). I spent the past hour scouring their respective discographies. I made my way through Nightwish without any success. I got about half-way through Eminem’s when I found Music Box which is ~90% correct. I then worked my way through E Nomine’s albums, feeling like I was getting closer and closer until I hit Das Rad des Schicksals which was what I was looking for.
What is surprising is that it seems like Eminem sampled E Nomine’s song (and possibly the name 
). I suppose it’s no surprise that Google finds no pages where other people have mentioned noticing this since the intersection of the demographics of the two groups is pretty small (maybe just me? probably not, but still small). But wait! There’s MORE! Apparently, Eminem did it TWICE, and with the same song:
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Update:
Marshal seems to really like sampling non–hip-hop music because the piano roll at the end of “Lose Yourself” is very similar to that of Philip Glass’ “Candyman” theme, albeit with more syncopation:
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Yes, none of these are identical, but sampling has always been the musical version of the meme “can I borrow your homework? – sure, just change it up a bit so it’s not so obvious”. Sampling has also always popular in the hip-hop community more than any other genre.