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Does Rap music have remakes and cover bands?
Posted on 2/2/21 at 2:50 pm
Posted on 2/2/21 at 2:50 pm
Rock music tends to have remakes and cover bands.
Smashing pumpkins doing an old Fleetwood Mac song, guns n' roses doing a Bob Dylan song, various artists doing Beatles songs, Metallica doing Bob Seger, etc.
Then you have various dedicated cover groups like Dred Zeppelin, or simply local artists who cover famous songs in their sets.
Does rap music have this at all?
What's are rap songs that were similarly redone or are there any groups better dedicated to covering a specific rapper's discography?
Smashing pumpkins doing an old Fleetwood Mac song, guns n' roses doing a Bob Dylan song, various artists doing Beatles songs, Metallica doing Bob Seger, etc.
Then you have various dedicated cover groups like Dred Zeppelin, or simply local artists who cover famous songs in their sets.
Does rap music have this at all?
What's are rap songs that were similarly redone or are there any groups better dedicated to covering a specific rapper's discography?
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Posted on 2/2/21 at 2:53 pm to Kujo
DJ’s are basically just rap cover bands.
DJ’s and rap artists constantly borrow hooks from other songs and reference each other, but they rarely straight up cover someone else’s song outside of a live setting.
Also, rock n roll cover bands are lame and tired as hell. I’m sick of seeing the Cheewees, Bag of Donuts, and Chase Tyler everywhere, but that’s the only kind of band bars round here want to pay, so covers I must play.
DJ’s and rap artists constantly borrow hooks from other songs and reference each other, but they rarely straight up cover someone else’s song outside of a live setting.
Also, rock n roll cover bands are lame and tired as hell. I’m sick of seeing the Cheewees, Bag of Donuts, and Chase Tyler everywhere, but that’s the only kind of band bars round here want to pay, so covers I must play.
This post was edited on 2/2/21 at 2:55 pm
Posted on 2/2/21 at 2:54 pm to Kujo
Posted on 2/2/21 at 2:57 pm to Kujo
Yes last weekend I saw a Drake cover rapper
So convincing it was almost like seeing the real thing
So convincing it was almost like seeing the real thing
Posted on 2/2/21 at 3:04 pm to Kujo
Only rap song covered by another rapper I can think of is Snoop's version of Lodi Dodi. The original is by Slick Rick. There's some rock covers of rap songs though.
This post was edited on 2/2/21 at 3:05 pm
Posted on 2/2/21 at 3:25 pm to Kujo
As others have said, there are constant allusions/tributes/riffs on older rap songs. Beats and lines are repurposed and played with. But the whole point of rapping is lyricism and wordplay, so just straight up repeating someone else's rap kind of defeats the purpose.
Posted on 2/2/21 at 3:30 pm to Brosef Stalin
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Only rap song covered by another rapper I can think of is Snoop's version of Lodi Dodi.
I literally posted a different one before you even replied.. ....
AND IT'S FROM AN ALBUM COMPLETELY COMPOSED OF RAPPERS COVERING OTHER RAPPERS
LINK
This post was edited on 2/2/21 at 3:33 pm
Posted on 2/2/21 at 4:35 pm to Kujo
Whats the point of it
Posted on 2/2/21 at 4:51 pm to Kujo
They already use the "sampling" trick to make their songs catchy/familiar. That's enough stealing, without doing a cover.
Posted on 2/2/21 at 7:52 pm to Kujo
Bogie's used to have a band that covered rap/hip hop songs and it was actually pretty awesome (at least when I was ten beams deep)
Posted on 2/2/21 at 8:12 pm to Kujo
In college at Auburn we used to go see that rap cover band “17th Floor” at highlands and blue room.
shite was awesome.
shite was awesome.
This post was edited on 2/2/21 at 8:13 pm
Posted on 2/3/21 at 1:26 am to Kujo
Will there be aging rappers still performing their hits when they’re in their 60’s?
Posted on 2/3/21 at 2:29 am to DaleGribble
Nipsey Hussle sampled Arctic Monkeys
Just bc you sample doesn’t mean it will be a hit. You have to be talented.
Just bc you sample doesn’t mean it will be a hit. You have to be talented.
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