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Shared DNA in Music

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248 points ksampath02 | 1 comments | 01 Apr 25 21:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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crawsome ◴[02 Apr 25 03:23 UTC] No.43553354[source]▶
Why is it "Shared DNA" if all rappers do is sample and totally rip-off music (Logos, artist names etc) before them?

The concept of "DNA" with music goes much deeper than some lucky nobody who sampled someone's life work so they could pollute it with lowest common denominator poetry and a Roland Drum Machine.

I submit that oogling over people who steal music by sampling is not that deep, and there's deeper methods of musical analysis than "This band sampled this beat, this means they're a natural progression of art".

Every example I skimmed over was some hiphop artist who ripped off music before them.

Other artists have some shame and just copy chord progressions, but rappers went so far to just completely steal parts of the song.

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holri ◴[02 Apr 25 06:05 UTC] No.43554039[source]▶
> Every example I skimmed over was some hiphop artist who ripped off music before them.

Mozart ripped of Händel. For example parts from his famous Reqiuem are a rip of of Händels Messiah. And a lot of classical Composers (ex. Beethoven) ripped of from their "godfather": J.S Bach. Altough they did not call it rip of, but learning.

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1. rongrobert ◴[02 Apr 25 11:25 UTC] No.43555574[source]▶
Exactly. The attitude is just so totally ignorant. Otherwise, just consider practically all equal temperament western music a ripoff of J.S Bach.

Of course, someone who knows nothing about music like this wouldn't know that.

The irony is that it could be argued hip hop is one of the few western pop musical art forms that isn't a complete J.S Bach ripoff.