Best Posts: Biting vs. Homage: The Curious Case of “Bodak Yellow”

  1. DKC
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    DKC hank trill

    Aug 15, 2017
     
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  2. DKC
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    DKC hank trill

    Aug 15, 2017
    "But “Bodak Yellow” had an organic popularity stemming from fans’ overwhelmingly positive reception to the song. The label quickly saw its potential and put forth the marketing dollars in order to morph this untapped potential into a smash hit."
     
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  3. Flacko
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    Flacko Too Blessed To Be Humble

    Aug 15, 2017
    That's a lot of hot takes dude. Also the track is "No Flockin", not Broccoli.
     
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  4. Lucy
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    Lucy #1

    Aug 15, 2017
    by reading that I found out Cardi B is actually a female. wow
     
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  5. DKC
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    DKC hank trill

    Aug 17, 2017
    as long as it's ho gender equality we good
     
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  6. Nino Brown
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    Nino Brown Draped up and dripped out

    Aug 17, 2017
    I'm all for women getting oral on albums, Too $hort was ahead of the game

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  7. Chazi
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    Aug 15, 2017
    regardless of it being biting or paying homage its just weird when that songs ends up being your hit single
     
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  8. DKC
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    DKC hank trill

    Aug 15, 2017
    People who were already fans organically took a liking to it, then labels pushed it so it would be successful among people who didn't know cardi b was a rapper. I don't really know how to explain this any more than I already have. I think the difference between a bite and homage is that when you bite you don't admit that you're stealing, you're trying to pass it off as your own.

    One of my professors in college said "bad writers plagiarize, good writers steal" and that always stuck with me.
     
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  9. Jehovah
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    Jehovah SB3

    Aug 15, 2017
    Bodak Yellow slaps idc
     
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  10. Deadpool
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    Deadpool the end

    Aug 17, 2017
    As long as u think that with guys too
     
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  11. DKC
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    DKC hank trill

    Aug 17, 2017
    why does that make it """hoe music"""?
     
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  12. lil uzi vert stan
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    Aug 15, 2017
    @Coco the Vageater @Charlie Work beef becoming epic heh
     
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  13. Jehovah
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    Jehovah SB3

    Aug 15, 2017
    real article @Flacko

    "However, Cardi B has shown us the correct way to deal with “borrowing” another artist’s cadence to use on an original song and it has worked out extremely well for her. As long as you give credit where credit is due, this shouldn’t be an issue at all"

    Thats how I felt when I heard the song, the song is even called "Bodak Yellow" how the fact that this song is homage is flying over people's head idk
     
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