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Hippop Culture: Is It Stealing Ideas From Other Songs?

"To me, the reason why i'm going to champion gibbeck is because, to be honest, you know, and i know the world's not going to pay attention until, like, the most respectet canon in pop, popular music is the beetles. And so now, for any nay sayer of hippop culture that says that it's stealing ideas from other songs, like, we don't have the proof," he said. "Look at the opening lines of come together and the lawsuit that followed soand exacti, that's interpolation right there."

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