Oh oh oh! I know what to say here:
Christ, what an asshole.
Oh my goodness, he really is fād up.
His entire career is repeating what others have written and pretending he said it and heās never been good at it.
Ha, I wasnāt aware of his first plagiarizing much less that he apologized by stealing some more.
Perhaps heās a performance artist trying to make some subtle commentaryā¦
noā¦nope just an asshole
At this point Labeef is just making plagiarism his āthingā. Also seems very much inspired by that guy who resells other peopleās pictures as his work and gets away with it.
Iām waiting for him to bust out with āPlagiarism is a flat circleā.
Eh, seriously?
I think Shia LaBeouf seems like an ass generally (although I appreciated his collaboration on the utterly amazing Shia LeBeouf song), and I think his attempting to pretend that plagiarizing was āperformance artā was completely asinine, but this really seems like a load of nothing.
He adds two lines from some other song at the end of what appears to be two and a half minutes of otherwise genuine freestyle.
A) Rap artists do this all the time, because rap is a medium that works well with cutting and splicing bits of each otherās songs, and B) sometimes you just get a piece of someoneās song in your head that you want to spit out.
It would be different if he were trying to sell this as āMy Own Rap that I Totally Came Up With Myself,ā but it looks like he was showing off for a group of friends/fans, one of whom uploaded a video. If a friend of mine was freestyling, and added a line or two from some other song, who would care?
Iām all for Shia LeBeouf pile-ons, but this is just silly.
Also:
Jesus what happened to this kid? He looks rough.
Was most of it āoriginalā and he threw in a couple ābit rhymesā. Because that isnāt too bad as far as amateur white rappers go.
Perhaps he is actually an android made by Elon Musk or someone, where he canāt create, only replicate what he sees, and he doesnāt have the ability to tell the difference.
I guess when you become known as the shameless repeat plagiarism guy even the smallest slip-ups get noticed? Thereās probably people running searches on pretty much anything he says or does nowadays.
Iām with SamSam on this. At no point did he ever state that he wrote any of this.
Iām with SamSam on this. At no point did he ever state that he wrote any of this.
It is known.
Nice try, Shia. We can tell itās you.
Shia, thereās a sign on the door: āNo Biting Allowed.ā
thatās it.
see also: MC Lyte ā10% Disā
Yet the media (including this) keeps propagating his work. Talk about a feedback loop.
Read Simulacra and Simulation.
