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Originally posted by bilmore
(And, in his own incisive and brilliant way, bilmore comes back with: )
Huh?
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Thurgreed interpeted your "Effin' thieves" comment to mean that you were offended by the fact that rapper Skee-lo appropriated those hippie lyrics for his own song. When Thurgreed asks why it is O.K. when "you" do it to "us," he is commenting on the misappropriation and popularization of musical styles, songs, etc., of blacks by whites (see, e.g., Elvis). His reference to an actual lyric or sample is presumably an attempt to point out the hypocrisy of those who feel that there is something wrong with or culturally unworthy about a music that routinely incorporates lyrics or musical samples from other songs in the creation of its own music, when in fact some of the music that is supposedly being misappropriated by the hip hoppers through sampling, etc., was music that was arguably misappropriated from black culture in the first place.
