Song comparisons

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.

6%Unrelated
Harmony30%
Melody20%
Sound76%
Rhythm35%

These tracks have no more in common than unrelated songs usually do.

Mystery of IniquityAll Falls Down
ArtistLauryn HillKanye West ft. Syleena Johnson
KeyG MajorG# Minor
Tempo176 BPM91 BPM
Most alike passage0:07–0:250:01–0:19

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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