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Super Freak by Rick James and U Can't Touch This by MC Hammer: how alike are they?

Sonalize compared the two recordings: 97%, near-identical or shared recording.

97%Near-identical or shared recording
Harmony100%
Melody100%
Sound91%
Rhythm36%

Consistent with the same recording being reused (a sample) or a faithful cover or re-recording.

Super FreakU Can't Touch This
ArtistRick JamesMC Hammer
KeyG MajorD Major
Tempo132 BPM66 BPM
Most alike passage0:01–0:232:54–3:16

Same key

Shared recording: the audio of Super Freak at 0:01–0:36 appears in U Can't Touch This at 2:54–3:29.

On Sonalize’s other-version check (a cover-song model), this pair is close: as alike as other versions, or as songs very much in the same style (distance 0.66; 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 pair from a copyright dispute that was decided or settled. Public background: sample (opening riff, looped throughout); Sued, settled; James and Alonzo Miller 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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