@Owlor It's interesting because in the *original* form of this track there was no such exploit, because it was only available as part of the "Kill at Will" EP and the label made positive money on the EP overall. But now the modern Internet music store allows you to buy a single song by itself.
It's possible this isn't actually a problem anymore— maybe label consolidation at some point worked things out to bring the sample royalties under 100%. But I kinda suspect just nobody thought about it.
@mcc I gotta say, having the cover art for the EP which contains a track when bought on its own actively loses him money (or did at some point) be Ice Cube handing you a gun with the barrel pointed towards himself is quite a visual.
If it's still a problem, my guess is it just isn't enough of an issue to really make a noticable dent in his revenue, but conceptually it's really funny to have a track where pirating it instead of buying it through legitimate channels is inarguably beneficial to the artist.
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