seckle wrote:in the graf world, if someone you don't know is bombing your pieces all over town with their own pieces, its war. you've spent days doing a mural on a street corner, and then somebody you don't know from another neighborhood, puts their bullshit all over the top of it. thats not being re-inspired by art. thats not pushing creativity. that's just being mediocre in front of thousands of people.
see this argument fails cause when you cross somebody the original piece gets destroyed. when you edit a tune, the original is still there in all its glory.
writers do tribute pieces in classic styles all the time. whos got re edited more than dondi? lol..
and borrowing letters and forms is par for the course.
matter of fact, writers take all kinds of imagery... id even say MOST productions are based around a theme thats jacked from somewhere...
Hiphop is sample based, the edit is a natural extension. its all about flexing your style, and creativity is absolutely getting pushed.