Here Comes the Hotstepper

Recording identifiers

ISRC

USSM19802296

Release date of the album this recording appears on

2002-04-22

CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)

0x868207ce778bc56d23daa3f803f89e53cf244db63f5d13735fb00b5721278879

Copyright registration time

2026-06-04T07:11:02+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp

2026-07-08T03:22:41Z

Bitcoin block

957120

Canonical record hash

sha256:e45f076871b16575f1aef0e65d9591c7f068e444853225125afa0ec506b8d66f

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What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 2002, before generative AI. ProofProfile's catalogue derives from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz source corpus, and ISRC is the stable recording-level bridge from that source corpus to the authoritative cc-db-prod track record.

CopyrightChains and Bitcoin OpenTimestamps make the exact committed record independently verifiable today. The cryptographic proof does not by itself establish authorship or ownership of the underlying recording.

Read the complete pre-generative-AI provenance and verification method.