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With the Beijing Olympic Games right around the corner, Coca-Cola wanted to celebrate by finding some lesser-known talent to steal use their music for one of their fantastic commericals! Anyway they end up asking for Onra's permission to use The Anthem (shouts to Pinglewood). Obviously he accepted. I mean, it sounds like it could give his career some shine right? welllll, not exactly. The sour story that follows is just below the jump... Before Coke even knew about The Athem, Onra was having troubles clearing the sample he had used for it. The label that had put the original song he used for the sample had folded and he really had no clue how to contact the original artist. So he was basically forced to either scrap it or just ignore the law (he chose the latter).
Original Coca-Cola Commercial W/ Onra's The Anthem
Coke still wanted to work with him, so they hired a musicologist to do an interpolation of the sample. Long story short, when Onra re-worked the song using said interpolation, Coca-Cola decided to just use the musicologist to copy Onra's entire beat instead. To add insult to injury, they even made it a little softer for all of the mainstream TV drones out there.




Coca-Cola's watered Down Piece of Shit
Coca-Cola ended up leaving Onra with a co-writer credit and just enough money to buy an MPC5000. The way they acted, it seems like they had wanted to make sure that Onra would receive no new fans from this whole ordeal. So, I'm going to tell you to remember the name Onra, because he makes some dope ass beats.
P.S. Coke tastes like shit.