Most blatant biting, rip-offs, wannabes in Rap History

[Bruce LeRoy]

This list is for rappers, songs, style that was the most blatant biting you've seen in rap

I'll start off MC Rell was such a blatant Rakim knock off

Everytime I check this thread I watch this video.... this sh-t is hilarious.

It's the closest thing to a parody without being one.

The over use of hand movements, the baby stroller burning out of nowhere, the dancing bum, etc. He's got kind of got a half assed version of Rakim's cadence down but his lyrics are so garbage....this guy was really trying to downplay Rakim's skill set with this bullshyt.

'I'm a visionary, not a fairy or a secretary'

 

[General Mills]

Blatant Fresh Prince Rip Off




I thought Chill Rob G was a GURU clone at first

Omg




I remember this song when i was a kid. My homie had it dubbed on a tape. Told us it was Fresh Prince. We played it all the time.

Periodically i would look for the song to add to my old school playlist but never found it under Will Smiths discography. I still know the lyrics by heart.


Now im just finding out that it was not the Fresh Prince






Plus rep breh

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

Drake and Fab aren’t from the 90s and they’re not clones. They may have taken certain attributes from others but they aren’t complete carbon copies of other artists like these othe nikkas.

Early fab was just as much of a fake mase as brat was a fake snoop and Master p was fake,scarface/pac/cash money millionaire etc

 

[FreshAIG]

Early fab was just as much of a fake mase as brat was a fake snoop and Master p was fake,scarface/pac/cash money millionaire etc

Influence yeah but I don't feel there styles are that similar at all. Fab was a punchline rapper. I see what you mean from the "Slow flow" thing, but once you hear them and see them their swag and styles were different.

 

[LegendaryPimpC]

saw this on revolt this morning thinking it was chance the rapper song
Idk if someone posted it already

 

[Rollie Forbes]

Jesus Christ this is some straight up Shang-Tsung shyt . Same delivery, flows, mannerisms, lyrical style everything. Sounds just like an Erick Sermon beat from that period, too. Even got the crazy ass talkbox interlude.

Like if I zoned out I woulda thought this was a Dare Iz a Darkside leftover

I remember Erick Sermon co-signing Joe Sinistr (I think in The Source Mag) back in the day. Maybe that's why in his Drink Champs episode E Double said that him & Redman had (slight) beef for a little while.

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

Fake Ass Wu Tang. Them nikkas clapped up Ol Dirty though

NOOO... Brooklyn Zoo the goons were legit....
Brooklyn Zoo the rapper clapped ODB

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

Omg




I remember this song when i was a kid. My homie had it dubbed on a tape. Told us it was Fresh Prince. We played it all the time.

Periodically i would look for the song to add to my old school playlist but never found it under Will Smiths discography. I still know the lyrics by heart.


Now im just finding out that it was not the Fresh Prince






Plus rep breh

but the thing is they were also from Philly ...
Jeff vs Cash is famous back in the mid 80s

 

[Rollie Forbes]

Kasinova Tha Don is another great Pac clone...those random tracks that came out advertised as New Pac songs with him rhyming about Hillary Clinton & shyt was actually Kasinova.




i mean the audacity of making this track:

I wrote this song a long time ago/the realest shyt I ever wrote...

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

Everytime I check this thread I watch this video.... this sh-t is hilarious.

It's the closest thing to a parody without being one.

The over use of hand movements, the baby stroller burning out of nowhere, the dancing bum, etc. He's got kind of got a half assed version of Rakim's cadence down but his lyrics are so garbage....this guy was really trying to downplay Rakim's skill set with this bullshyt.

'I'm a visionary, not a fairy or a secretary'

the outfit too..soon as i saw the thumbnail i could tell who he was biting before even reading about it

 

[spliz]

Influence yeah but I don't feel there styles are that similar at all. Fab was a punchline rapper. I see what you mean from the "Slow flow" thing, but once you hear them and see them their swag and styles were different.

Nah. It was really evident when they was on a song together on DJ Clue’s The Professional. They sounded just alike on this shyt.

 

[Rollie Forbes]

Fake Young Thug

Isn't that the guy who had a worldstar vid with a tranny?

 

[Rollie Forbes]

Trey Songz whole catalogue until 2015 ....

Let's go down this rabbit hole: Trey Songz (and Avant) started by biting R. Kelley's style. Public Announcement era Kellz started his career by biting Aaron Hall's style. Meanwhile, Aaron Hall bit off of the GOAT Charlie Wilson.

 

[Rollie Forbes]

Gorilla Black.... dude sounded so much like biggie, I ended up accidentally liking some of his songs

Before Guerilla Black jacked Biggie's style, he sounded like Mystikal. I think his old name was Big Cizzle or something like that.

 

[FreshAIG]

Nah. It was really evident when they was on a song together on DJ Clue’s The Professional. They sounded just alike on this shyt.

I hear the influence, I guess it counts but it’s not that blatant to me other than they flowed really slow. He definitely sounded like Mase a lot on this particular song tho but over the course of his career it wasn’t that overt to me.