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Old 02-22-2015, 11:08 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Ive made songs i recognise have been obvious rip offs of a song i liked.

ive caught myself thinking: "This sounds like an Elliot smith tune" and it doesn't matter if other ppl don't make that distinction when they hear the song TO ME it will always kinda sound like i ripped him off so i'll scrap the song.

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Originally Posted by Ki View Post
You also have to take in consideration the amount of times artist in the hip hop industry use certain riffs and parts of a song as samples for their own song.
Somehow i don't mind it as much when they do it in hip hop cause usually they put a different spin on it with different lyrics.

Sampling has always been a thing in hip hop/rap music so i don't mind it.
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