Nice try, but it's a little different when you're not dealing with material objects.
If you cover a song, so long as you give the original artist credit, it's not stealing, K? Simple as that. Similarly, if you sample a song, so long as the original artist is given some sort of credit, it's not stealing. Sure, some might argue that a writing credit should be required, but I don't see how taking at most one bar of music from another song and turning it into something that hardly resembles the original song at all could necessitate a writing credit. I haven't heard anything about any P-Funk artists complaining about NWA or whoever else, so I'm pretty sure it's fine.
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