It’s a very fine line for an artist to walk, and a lot of people might criticize the decision. Here are 10 aspects of contemporary hip-hop culture where the fine line between paying homage often gets crossed.
As a rapper, you have to be careful-the integrity of your career and your respect as an artist is at stake. As listeners, it’s our responsibility to discern one from the other. Biting, on the other hand, implies deceit-it’s a sneaky way to get away with stealing someone else’s artistic identity. Paying tribute is a tasteful way to show love and respect for your influences, often through a reference or repurposing of a line or beat. That’s a different way of showing love as opposed to everyone rapping the same style.” I’m gonna redo your song, get you paid all over again, and let everybody know it’s your shit, and put a twist on it for the new kids who don’t even know it exist. Fresh-I paid n***as who I grew up loving. If you paying tribute, like I did with ‘La Di Da Di’ with Slick Rick and Doug E. If you sounded like someone else, that word was called biting. “When I came out as a rapper, everyone had their own style. Snoop Dogg addressed the distinction when we spoke to him last year: Many rappers can even get away with biting by calling it “paying tribute,” but the two are very different. Today, as hip-hop has grown into a massive artistic movement with all kinds of sub-genres and regional styles, it has become infinitely harder to identify a biter, and the act of biting has become much less taboo. That made it easy to spot a biter and call him or her out. In its nascent state, hip-hop was only a small community of rappers in New York.
In the documentary The Art of 16 Bars, RZA describes biting as “the only real crime we had in hip-hop.” The antithesis to originality is the act of biting. Hip-hop values originality over any other quality as a rapper, you are nothing if you are not yourself.
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