A 45-year-old song about impeachment - coming back again

American funk singer Roy C in 1973, at the height of the Watergate scandal, made a song 'Impeach the President' about Richard Nixon, but it was left obscure. It has been sampled for around 600 times since, but somebody else owns the publishing rights now. The week the Trump's impeachment process was announced online streams of the song went up 1.000 percent. Roy C told the Vice he was least satisfied with the drummer when they made the song - and the drum beat is the most famous part of the song now.

oy himself didn’t even realize it had been sampled until around 25 years later, in the late 1990s, after hearing Janet Jackson singing over a beat he recognized.

Ironically, the most famous part of the song, the drumbeat, was his least favorite part – at least, at first. “The drummer was not that great,” he said in an interview with VICE News. “It took me a long time to get him straight. I worked many hours with him.”

sampled 600 hundred times