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Originally posted by Pornwolf
I hate to back up this theory but it is the truth. I was talking to B.B. King (the most popular bluesman in history) one night and we were talking about all of these rappers sampling and stuff. I was saying to him 'why can't they just come up with something original for a change?'
B.B. told me,
"Everything comes from somewhere else. All of the greatest songs I did were stolen from other people's ideas. What matters is what You add to the idea. That will determine if people think you stole it or not."
Innovation is just the progression of current ideas. Someone once said "Lets put naked pictures on the web and charge people to see them." Are we copying them? Are they just copying Hugh & Larry? You get the picture.
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Precisely why purists hated MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice. Instead of sampling they recycled the exact same music and rapped over it.