I know people say Ja Rule/ DMX both bit 2Pac, but those two at least brought their own talent to the table and did something kinda different

But THIS Fool takes the Cake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY_9x6H-h5Y&feature=channel&list=UL

Is this dude still alive? I wouldn't be shocked if he purposely contracted HIV to make his copy job of Easy-E 100% faitfhul

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psuRGfAaju4

~Austin

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holy shit that sounds like the postal service

never heard of that guy before

~Austin

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she loved postal service when i subsequently played them for her.

consider him a gateway drug.

ha.
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He'll even be more successful than Postal as well. You're right, despicable is the right word.

It annoys me so bad for being such a blatant ripoff with the emotional underbelly surgically removed.

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Funniest shit ever...we were the only people there. And his wife/girl kept looking at me to see if I'd recognize him or say anything, and I didn't. They were probably crushed

if so I saw Xzibit there a couple times.

at that Prince function. I was askin his girl "who is that?" cause I couldn't put my finger on it and she was irritated and finally told me lol


YOU ARE THE NIGGA OF THE YEAR FOR GETTING ALL THEM BAD ASS MOTHERFUCKERS ON STAGE!!!-Supablak regarding 2uestlove Bonnarro D setup

the most blatant biting of someone's entire flow ever

Snoop should have had Rage snuff this chick in the face for the blatant style-biting.

..

I HATED that song

True!

rippin off all those blues musicians
pretty sad

A: spending a long career ripping off a bunch of people

OR

B: having a relatively short career completely copying one specific artist

maybe not most ever but i'd put it on the list.

it's so deep i regularly see the track mislabeled as a Prince song.

b/c for a long time I was certain that 'Sheila' (which turned out to be by Tommy Roe) was by Buddy Holly.

i remember her being interviewed on the radio around the time it was out and she joked that she thought prince made a song about her and didn't even tell her

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSAJ0l4OBHM

. . .that I've actually come across people who honestly thought it was Neil.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC9LQQ0Lw8U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_rvJmjJ2I4

(lol @ these 2 songs)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-cmXKEeGx0
(LOL @ somehow ripping off Rick James, EWF, and Prince at the same time)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajrRUzvRiLs
(that album cover, yo)

I can't find The Bar-Kay's "Dance, Party, Etc." but ...if you can find that.

LOL

I was familiar with "Something About AKA Head: Redux" but never "Keep On Steppin'", wow, I guess I always skipped it(Hell, who am I kidding, the only thing I listen from that album is the former song).

This song from the Bar-Kays sounds like Jamie Starr paid a visit,,,,
http://youtu.be/ZMurMjusZbc

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a lot of her songs sound awfully familiar to me but born this way vs express yourself was just so blatant that i still dont believe it happened

Not only is that blatant and shameless but Gaga looks like a wet dog in the video. Madonna was so sexy during that era.

"alejandro" is a straight rip off of "la isla bonita".

i think it was blue monday

maybe bizarre love triangle

cant remember off hand but everytime i hear my girl playing it thru the walls i think she is listening to new order

http://youtu.be/8BVnL9_UF7Y?t=2m6s

http://youtu.be/Qigr0G6luIQ?t=2m25s

If anything, we all said Quik sounded a lot like Eazy back then.

I've never heard anything else from the guy.

I actually HOPE that was supposed to be a parody video

I used to play the hell out of it back in the day. Only comparison to Eazy is they both have high pitched voices and jheri curls lol...

Hi-C was in DJ Quik's crew. That's like West Coast classic material to me. He was always the funnier guy out of them all. He made the MC Gusto songs for CB4 (Straight Outta Locash). He pops up now and then on a feature. I think his last big gig was as the MC in Malibu's Most Wanted.

He's not a copy of Eazy-E, he's just from that era and he's a better rapper.
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Sounds more like Quik than Easy for obviously reasons, Quik probably wrote the lyrics

Except they didn't have any songs that could go with Gwen and co., so they worked their ska-pop-punk-girl-singer "magic" on Dexy's Midnight Runners only hit.

This might be the biggest fail of them all. They tried to be like No Doubt and failed and couldn't even take a shot with an original song. Ouch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCzWPBR30Nk

It was all right, but other than Come On Eileen it pretty much was unspectacular

smh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09NBtkXP4Dc

vs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3ZEEH83f5k

So funny.

Suge is seriously a fucked up dood.

This song made me write the whole thing off at the time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCUSyM_94kA

Not the most shameless by a long shot, but still an immediate SMH for me.

(The album's a lot better than I initially gave it credit for)

I call my babypussy cat..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-jbkAHjGe0

maybe its just me

and there was another dude, V Dot Slick or something. 2 dudes that sound like Jay-Z

but Angelous was actually making songs that sound like Jay-Z would make

Sacario was tryna sound like Jay too

Didn't know why he was going on about some 'sacario' so much lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUtFbQmQ_IY

How you gonna slavishly copy some bullshit, come up with some even worse bullshit, and blow the f**k up?

It's the new apple pie.

I was told ice cube bit his whole post lethal injection
Swag from volume 10

I only knew of one volume 10 song
(pump pump on my lap at all times)

But uhh no


It was a grip of fake pharcydes too

>I was told ice cube bit his whole post lethal injection
>Swag from volume 10
>
>I only knew of one volume 10 song
>(pump pump on my lap at all times)
>
>But uhh no
>
>
>It was a grip of fake pharcydes too

He has a very short part on the song but it's clear as day.
It's little less obvious on "Wicked" because Cube flipped the style so that he's on beat the whole time.
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I never noticed that as biting Volume 10 before but I can see why someone would think that.

Guerillas in the Mist is one of my top 10 albums of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P2a9YL1aeU

c'mon, man.

c'mon.

i can't stand this song b/c it's such a shameless rip-off of Bootsy/P-Funk.

>i can't stand this song b/c it's such a shameless rip-off of
>Bootsy/P-Funk.

but there definitely is a Bootsy impersonation going on with the voice.

It ain't "real" Bootsy without that Space Bass...(which on "Dukey Stick" you actually hear that effect)

>>i can't stand this song b/c it's such a shameless rip-off
>of
>>Bootsy/P-Funk.
>
>but there definitely is a Bootsy impersonation going on with
>the voice.

but isn't Bootsy's addlips sound like Jimi Hendrix?

The difference is that for Hendrix, those were ad-libs and not more whereas Bootsy used them as a foundation for his entire vocal-style and generally left the more conventional vocal-stylings to Gary Cooper and Robert Johnson. Basically, Bootsy's vocal-style is an example of someone taking a fragment/part of someone else's style and then make it his own foundation. I don't think that really applies to the George Duke track...

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worked together so I figure it was whatev

he put in WORK on those old George Duke records, and I mean before he went to Epic/CBS

>>i can't stand this song b/c it's such a shameless rip-off
>of
>>Bootsy/P-Funk.
>
>but there definitely is a Bootsy impersonation going on with
>the voice.
>
>It ain't "real" Bootsy without that Space Bass...(which on
>"Dukey Stick" you actually hear that effect)


That shit WAAAAAAS a Bootsy rip off....It just so happened to be damn good...lol

I love the song but it always sounded Bootsy as fuck to me, same with the intro to the "Come and get it"-album even if there are some keyboard chords there that sounds different from P-funk. I never felt Rick James ripped off P-funk as much as George Clinton supposedly seemed to think he did but "Bustin' out" is one song where a case can be made...

all the overton lloyd comics...

they referred to rick james band as 'stone shiddibland'. young me used to crack up at that. and they had similar disses for george duke.

matter of fact, i think that's where the whole concept of 'faking the funk' was coined.


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...I've seen those covers and if you read the inner-sleeve (? I'm referring to the sleeve holding the vinyl, don't know the english term) on Rick's "Fire it up"-album, he pretty much asks for it by "inventing" a funk-language that's so derivative of P-funk, it's not even funny. Still, I don't hear it *that* much musically. Then again, Norman Whitfield was supposedly making tapes of Funkadelic concerts in the 60's in order to find new ideas so George may be right-everyone was ripping him off. Still, I think a case could be made of the opposite being true as well-Parliament seemed to take ideas (or at least "general" concepts) from Ohio Players and EWF and other bands like that when George wanted to go more commercial and less psychedelic with the Casablanca-albums and many of Funkadelic's early albums sound partially derivative of Sly and Jimi IMO. Whatever, it doesn't matter; dude was a genius but I just don't hear *that* much P-funk in Rick or other acts from that era-I just think P-funk were so idiosyncratic that it's just pointless to say people were ripping them off because it came out so different (watered down? I don't want to go there!)...

George Duke definitely bit a bit too much though

baby-bubba) in the ad-libs an shit.

even though i loved the song, i remember thinking, damn, they copying bootsy (the word 'bite' wasn't out, yet).


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKb-N2XYNQ0

dude.

he str8 stole this from Bowie. no shame.

see also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6DAqMFe97E

to clone ANYBODY's funk because he truly believed they had all stolen it from him in the first place.

This was one of the more shameless examples though... I mean, the Godfather of all people is putting some Bowie in his Funk? lol

He named his songs with all the same names from the Pac bootlegs that werent offcially released at that time, plus he enunciated his words the same way Pac did. C-Murder was guilty of this too, but his biting didnt bother me as much as P's did...

Dame Dash's Jay-Z clone.

I'll admit I was fooled for a quick second the first time I listened to the Blakrock album.

He sounds identical.

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/rap-critic/rap-critic-reviews/35305-drank-in-my-cup-by-kirko-bangz

I've never heard of this Kirko guy, but Holy Dayyuuum He is biting hard

I just thought the song in general sounded like something A$AP Rocky would do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbPmkJfmla0

<---- Downtown Kansas City, Missouri 5/24/2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YlqVaYZQU4

That is the epitome of some bootleg, low budget knock off shit right there

that clown out.

Or maybe he did and that's why he was never seen again

on the "Michael" album. the 2010 version has Leon Sylvers, Alfonzo, Shanice, and some other cats on background
jaywonder.tumblr.com

they actually put Alfonzo on a Michael Jackson song

WOW.

wow!

unrealeased mike song and make some money

if people are like "wait.....is this from the Jackson's album? Or one of those unreleased Off the wall songs?" Shit I AM gonna play it!

This is pretty doggone shameless. That Logic up above was out of bounds with both feet too.

This is some straight up Lovely One Redux. He deserves a stomp-out fo sho. He actually deserves a stern look even right now.

Side-eyes...I'm not anywhere near as upset as I should be with a couple of these Alfonzo songs though. Alfonzo going in on Dirty Low Down...I'm not too mad.

WAIT...Your Booty Makes Me Moody!? I'll be damned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6WsIa7DSg8&feature=related

Jimaveli

you look in the mirror you see a man trying to be another man.

obviously no one ever bought this, so we'll assume homie went on and led the normal life of an asshat. imagine this dude married and had kids, and found a job where he could be himself. now picture that kid logging on to the Lesson and seeing THIS.

how do you explain to funkeebeets0312 that you were an unsuccessful Michael Jackson clone?

>obviously no one ever bought this, so we'll assume homie went
>on and led the normal life of an asshat. imagine this dude
>married and had kids, and found a job where he could be
>himself. now picture that kid logging on to the Lesson and
>seeing THIS.
>
>how do you explain to funkeebeets0312 that you were an
>unsuccessful Michael Jackson clone?

How am I just now hearing of this calamity?!?! Thank you!! lol

...

ALFONZO!!!

Complete and utter bitin'...W-O-W!

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So much I need to just edit my shit and leave a blank reply.. LMAO!

I'm not seeing it.

Right down to how they pronouce words like Cube, and theres More Bounce and Atomic Dog samples all over that album...

http://youtu.be/tBWHTVMnut4

Of course, that was before I was really into Chaka. Right now, its easier to notice the subtle differences, but I gotta tip my hat, thats the BEST carbon copy of the Wall of Chaka sound.

>http://youtu.be/tBWHTVMnut4
>
>Of course, that was before I was really into Chaka. Right now,
>its easier to notice the subtle differences, but I gotta tip
>my hat, thats the BEST carbon copy of the Wall of Chaka
>sound.


YOU ARE THE NIGGA OF THE YEAR FOR GETTING ALL THEM BAD ASS MOTHERFUCKERS ON STAGE!!!-Supablak regarding 2uestlove Bonnarro D setup

like her on a lotta songs

I mean, Chaka can get a bit nasal sometimes, but with Vesta it was more intentional and she over did it, which was a dead giveaway.

Agreed though, to the untrained ears, she might fool somebody into thinking she was Chaka.

I remember when a local radio DJ asked her to impersonate her fave singer, she did Chaka's add-lips from "Through The Fire"(which was revived @ the time due to Kanye) it was the most hilarious thing I ever heard, she then said "If I didn't show up to the concern tomorrow due to a broken leg, you know who did it" lol I miss her already.

>I remember when a local radio DJ asked her to impersonate her
>fave singer, she did Chaka's add-lips from "Through The
>Fire"(which was revived @ the time due to Kanye) it was the
>most hilarious thing I ever heard, she then said "If I didn't
>show up to the concern tomorrow due to a broken leg, you know
>who did it" lol I miss her already.

that's hilarious. and yeah, I thought that there were times that she sounded a lot like Chaka Khan, even more than Toni Smith did

The singer is Toni Brown though.

but for some reason i forgot she couldn't/didn't.

I secretly wished that she would make an album with Bernard Wright, Don Blackman, Lenny White, Tom Browne and Marcus Miller backing her up as session musicians, with Sandra St. Victor, her brother and her sister handling the occasional back-up singing. Imagine the madness that would've been produced.

I mean, I know Treach was in the vidoe, but damn it was bad.

lol

Maybe I missed it, but this is the worst offender in rap music history, IMO.

I consider myself a pretty good Biggie connoisseur, when I first heard that joint with Beenie Man (?), I was like, "oh, fuck, is Puff remixing Biggie shit for a buck again?!?"

http://mashable.com/2011/06/06/kanye-west-monster-official/
vs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sY5ADqmdZ4

judge for yourselves.

The only thing I can really remember about the Monster video is the dead women, and as far as I made it into this video, there were no dead women.

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sad because i used to like his music, but then i heard this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o33gCg99FQ4


This came out 99, a few years before this unreleased pac track came out on Until the End of Time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGjyRjd1_jQ

So much evil energy

No Limit were jacking unreleased Pac songs, most of the general public hadnt heard the originals and would just assume C had an original song...

giving him his props!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RVWfDEQYW8

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“The other dude after me didn’t help my case. It was just like…crazy nigga factory going on.”
Dre makes no apologies for his own eccentricities. “I was young, and searching, trying to find myself,” he says. “Never did.”-- Andre B

so you just posted whatever as usual

the Rolling Stones also

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“The other dude after me didn’t help my case. It was just like…crazy nigga factory going on.”
Dre makes no apologies for his own eccentricities. “I was young, and searching, trying to find myself,” he says. “Never did.”-- Andre B

nm

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“The other dude after me didn’t help my case. It was just like…crazy nigga factory going on.”
Dre makes no apologies for his own eccentricities. “I was young, and searching, trying to find myself,” he says. “Never did.”-- Andre B

he'll still get co-signs on his original shit from others that don't either.

use the internets

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“The other dude after me didn’t help my case. It was just like…crazy nigga factory going on.”
Dre makes no apologies for his own eccentricities. “I was young, and searching, trying to find myself,” he says. “Never did.”-- Andre B

why should we be?

you shouldnt be anything then.

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“The other dude after me didn’t help my case. It was just like…crazy nigga factory going on.”
Dre makes no apologies for his own eccentricities. “I was young, and searching, trying to find myself,” he says. “Never did.”-- Andre B

yikes.

dude, just carry on.

I'm not even mad you called me a bitch because I find your frustration funny as well.

Anything else, sport?

typing. Did you have tears running down your face? A+++
Why are you upset? Don't lash out. Just please, if you can, explain the logic of somebody being upset because you fail at posting. LOL smdh

On February 11, 2011, Paul McCartney whilst commenting on the influence of the Beatles and black music gave this assessment as part of a BBC documentary titled The Beatles and Black Music, produced by Vivienne Perry and Ele Beattie.
“It was really cool when hip-hop started, you would hear references in lyrics, you always felt honored. It’s exactly what we did in the beginning – introducing black soul music to a mass white audience. It’s come full circle. It’s, well, cool. When you hear a riff similar to your own, your first feeling is ‘rip-off.’ After you’ve got over it you think, “Look at that, someone’s noticed that riff.’”

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“The other dude after me didn’t help my case. It was just like…crazy nigga factory going on.”
Dre makes no apologies for his own eccentricities. “I was young, and searching, trying to find myself,” he says. “Never did.”-- Andre B

them off? You're dumb.I don't think you know anything about The Beatles. Matter fact, you are the only person in my entire life I've ever heard try to push that rediculous argument. Ever.
Smdh

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I know Slave produced it, but still lol

i found out last year it was betty wright

ltd "back in love again"....maze wrong for that shit....

Chico DeBarge. Just happened to listen to "Long Time No See" and forgot how much he jacked D'Angelo on that. Odd seeing how Kedar already had D'Angelo. Just listen to all the organ playing on that disc. Really wasn't hearing organ like that on RnB/Soul until Brown Sugar at that point in the 90s.

Hang On In There Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKsAgXH9ci4

i heard it on the radio a couple years ago and my jaw dropped. i was completely unfamiliar with it.

even stranger, i was going through my records one day...turns out that i own the album. i may even have doubles. LMAO.

SHINE (BIGGIE)
JERMAINE DUPRI AND "ALL" HIS MAIN CREATIONS (DA BRAT, KRISS KROSS)
FRANK MCCOMB (DONNY HATHaWAY & STEVIE WONDER).
hi-five (NEW EDITION)

Shine was basically a situation were Diddy couldn't fully accept the fact that Biggie was gone and he tried to keep his spirit and vibe alive thru that guy (not to mention the consistent money flow Biggie was bringing in to Bad Boy during it's height). I call it "pop karma" though cause look at Shine's ass now..

..permanently locked out the country while lookin' like Big Gipp's autistic half brother with that "Jew Do" he's been rockin' as of late.

Laughinathisass

At one point in time, Jermaine Dupri, Kriss Kross, and Da Brat ALL sounded like Snoop (not that any of them are even worth mentioning on "Okayhater.com").

Frank McComb is dope and I'm a fan, but he takes his Donny Hathaway/Stevie Wonder influence to a ridiculous extreme.

"hi-five" were so wack that I spelled their name in lower case letters. Look at the Kissing Game video and you'll see them biting most of NE moves. The lead singer was basically Ralph and the dark skinned nigga was Johnny. The rest of them dudes were some hood niggas that grew up with the lead singer who were only brought on to keep them off the streets (and of course to try and be the "new" New Edition). And look at what happened to them.

Btw, there's too many more to name. R. Kelly though gets an honorable mention 'cause Kellz done gave that poor guy "Mr. Hall" a few ulcers and raised his blood pressure up tenfold over the years for jackin' that his shit LOL

but this album still bangs to me

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/three-piece-puzzle/id366947228

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