How do I better infuse my influences into my work without coming

>>73182097
The secret is to be a shameless copycat at first and then let it naturally evolve based on your own talents and individual tastes

Also in hip hop the real key is to either self-produce or to work closely with a small number of producers, because it'll only positively effect your sound vs taking a beat and an acapella and throwing it together and hoping for the best

>>73182097
All rap sounds exactly the same so even if you rip people off no one will know

>>73182192
(you)

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>>73182153
>The secret is to be a shameless copycat at first and then let it naturally evolve based on your own talents and individual tastes

you sure?

write more
don't try and be in a specific style. that will happen whether you want it to or not.

>>73182192
this is true.

"yuh, yuh, yuh, yuh, ma bitches know i the realest, uh uh uh, yuh" - kendrick lamar, the greatest rapper of all

>>73185098
I always just end up writing like the last person I listened to.

good artists borrow. great artists steal, theres no third direction

>>73185275
and what the fuck is the difference between stealing and borrowing in this context

>>73185369
credit

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>>73187266

>>73185275
You misinterpreted that quote

By stealing the quote means to take their ideas and make them your own, not literally TAKE what they do as in plagiarize

That'd be COPYING (or borrowing), which the quote says only "good" artists do

>>73182097
IT'S ABOUT THE PIECE
IT IS ALL FOR THE PIECE
THE PIECE MUST STAND ON ITS OWN

>>73188087
Thank you.

It's just too bad I don't know how to (or maybe don't want to) make anything my own, I'm a piece of shit.

byuuuuump