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sampling
Sampling is fine if it's by an artist or group (like De la Soul) that actually has musical talent. By someone like P.Diddy, it's a shameless coverup for a complete lack of ability (though I don't doubt his abilities as a producer/promoter). If you have no musical talent, for god's sake don't be a musician.
As to copying other people's styles, everyone rips off everyone else in cycles. How else to explain, for example, the ten thousand impossible-to-tell-apart unreasonably-pissed-off-screaming-middle-class-white-white-guy bands right now? But as always, the first and best have the satisfaction of knowing they started it. If not the cash, which they should also have of course.
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