Mystery of Iniquity by Lauryn Hill and All Falls Down by Kanye West ft. Syleena Johnson: how alike are they?
Sonalize compared the two recordings: 6%, unrelated.
| Harmony | 30% |
|---|---|
| Melody | 20% |
| Sound | 76% |
| Rhythm | 35% |
These tracks have no more in common than unrelated songs usually do.
| Mystery of Iniquity | All Falls Down | |
|---|---|---|
| Artist | Lauryn Hill | Kanye West ft. Syleena Johnson |
| Key | G Major | G# Minor |
| Tempo | 176 BPM | 91 BPM |
| Most alike passage | 0:07–0:25 | 0:01–0:19 |
Track B moved up 1 semitones (G# Minor to G Major)
On Sonalize’s other-version check (a cover-song model), this pair is alike in style, as songs of the same genre often are, though not the closeness of another version (distance 1.69; other versions of a song in these comparisons have a median of 0.31, different songs that sound alike 1.27, random pairs 2.95).
Why this pair
This is a song that interpolates (re-records part of) the other. Public background: vocal hook re-sung (Hill refused the sample); Hill credited. Sonalize's scores are measurements, not a view on any dispute.
How this was measured
Compared from the full recordings; Sonalize's fingerprint lookup confirmed both songs. The same engine runs in the Sonalize app on your own device. A score measures how alike two recordings are; it isn't a finding about copying, legal advice, or a rights clearance.
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