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Quick question, why is it that when a producer uses a music sample that was previously used a million times but flips it it isn't considered biting but when a rapper uses a line that 90% of hip-hop fans know it is considered biting.
Like I said before this is a stupid argument. Comparing a producers skill of making beats(something hip hop is founded on) to stealing lines fromother rappers only makes sense to those who want to see it that way when in actuallity its absurd. Notice how you say flip the beat. Now is taking one linefrom another person some type of skill? The person didnt take away or add anything to it(cuz if they did that would make it a whole new original line) andthats what makes it biting. If you think like this if rapper A rhymed the words "cool" and "school and then rapper B rhymes it in the opposite"school" and lets say " not cool" then he should be considered a biter as well and this is ridiculous logic. Producing and rapping are tovery different things. If you read some posts in this thread this question was already answered. Furthermore, the skill of lyricism should be held in a higherregard than that of beat production not because it is better but because its not rap music without lyrics where on the other hand a producer who flips beatsstill has a venue. Lyrics are what makes rap music rap music. Also its not fliping the beat that makes the difference its how you flip the beat. I meansseriously which is easier stealing a line or producing a beat with a sample?
Dudes is makin the most inane arguments for this. I'd be making my argument no matter what prominent artist was in question, we can even switch for anyother rapper. If this was Rakim I'd be sayinig it, if it was KRS One I'd be saying it, if it was any rapper I'd argue against biting because it iswrong.
EDIT - Also for legal purposes a producer who flips samples has to pay the artist/publisher/label or whoever to ok it, so with that logic maybe ppl who takeothers lines should pay the rapper who originally said it? right? I still wouldnt agree with it tho