“I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too … I got a song about that … But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.”

—  James Brown

"Being James Brown," Rolling Stone Magazine, 2006-06-12.

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American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist 1933–2006

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