Elision wrote:EminemInsider wrote:Elision wrote:these threads are ridiculous. like artists completely capable of carrying their own would bite not only another artist, but one of the most listened-to artists.

Yeah, I'm sure it's just a giant coincidence that these rappers arrived at the same rhyme schemes as Eminem, and they'd
never heard them in his songs before.
1. They used the same rhymes as Eminem
2. They'd obviously heard Eminem use these rhymes before
What's there to argue here? They bit him, intentionally or not.
First off, there is a difference between rhymes schemes and rhymes alone. These examples are
not following Em's rhyme schemes.
That would be biting.
The fact is that a massive portion of Em's multi's had been recorded in songs prior to him using them. Nobody here would argue that Em is a big hiphop fan as a whole, and probably heard many of them in his years coming up. Does that mean that Em's biting those rappers? No. Because it's completely different context, and it's usually drowned in a plethora of other completely unrelated rhymes that form the bars in which the multi was used.
So where are all these previously done multisyllabic rhymes Eminem was using?
If you can find somebody who rhymed "HIV" with "fake ID" before Eminem, please feel free to point it out. If not, then I think it deserves mentioning that Eminem was the one who came up with it.
We're not talking about "world" and "girl" here. People don't just tear out a sheet of paper and go, "fake ID/HIV." Well, not unless they've heard Role Model before.
In hiphop rhyming is the melody and thus our instrument is the dictionary -- Syllables = notes. By your standards anybody who's ever hit the same note as your favorite guitarist is biting them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
Not the same thing. There are only so many notes. The English language is vast and the combination of words you can put together is pretty much endless.
When a musician uses the same chord progression for a song that another musician has used, it's usually mentioned.