Oh, I'm not really mad - I wrote that really quickly before leaving my apartment so it definitely didn't translate my sarcasm very well.
They were probably listening to Wiz, although apparently Vasco produced the song (or Zico? or both?) and he might have a bigger ear towards hip hop history than the D-Unit gang. So he could have listened to the Almighty RSO but who knows. What I'm curious to find out is whether they paid for the beat; I think that the K-pop world is quite exploitative when it comes to giving people their fair compensation, so it would come as a shock to me if they did. Now, I doubt Almighty RSO needs it (Benzino was part of the group and he certainly doesn't need cash) nor does the label.
It just rubs me the wrong way - the girls likely have no idea where the sounds come from. That's good and bad, but "One In The Chamba" is such a charged and historic song that it feels off when they rap on it. Like, I wouldn't be happy if 2NE1 used the "Fight The Power" instrumental. It would just seem like totally terrible appropriation. That's obviously ridiculous but this strikes the same chord (literally, even!) with me. Then again, I love how K-pop pillages from western music, so I don't have a particularly good reason why this time should be any different.
On a related note, there's a T-ara song that pretty much takes the entire beat from another song and I have to wonder if they gave the source any money. The T-ara track was a "hit" so you know they made plenty off of that. My gut tells me no, and I hate that I'll never find out.
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They were probably listening to Wiz, although apparently Vasco produced the song (or Zico? or both?) and he might have a bigger ear towards hip hop history than the D-Unit gang. So he could have listened to the Almighty RSO but who knows. What I'm curious to find out is whether they paid for the beat; I think that the K-pop world is quite exploitative when it comes to giving people their fair compensation, so it would come as a shock to me if they did. Now, I doubt Almighty RSO needs it (Benzino was part of the group and he certainly doesn't need cash) nor does the label.
It just rubs me the wrong way - the girls likely have no idea where the sounds come from. That's good and bad, but "One In The Chamba" is such a charged and historic song that it feels off when they rap on it. Like, I wouldn't be happy if 2NE1 used the "Fight The Power" instrumental. It would just seem like totally terrible appropriation. That's obviously ridiculous but this strikes the same chord (literally, even!) with me. Then again, I love how K-pop pillages from western music, so I don't have a particularly good reason why this time should be any different.
On a related note, there's a T-ara song that pretty much takes the entire beat from another song and I have to wonder if they gave the source any money. The T-ara track was a "hit" so you know they made plenty off of that. My gut tells me no, and I hate that I'll never find out.