Quote Originally Posted by gumpy green
heard of this in hiphop wer an mc that cant write lyrics pays someone who can to write them for them and then he mc's these over whateva beat.

now,

ive heard of this in techno where someone gets a producer along side them to write the track......then they clame its ther track.

hope this isnt too widespread in techno cos imo it sucks.

have yall heard of this happening much or is this just a rare occurance????
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Yeah i've seen this happen a lot. To be fair to the people involved they did put XXXXX vs XXXXX on the track. but if you didnt know em you'd think that was truth.

But how different is it for pop artists who get given a song by their publishers to sing on stage?

There are many song writers out there who record companies would NOT want to put on stage due to their lack of appeal.. (shallow i know but im talking about overweight uglies here...) but who have MASSIVE abilities as song writers. (it also applies to folks who dont want to be in the public eye)

I dont see it being any different with hip hop. my mates a dope rap song writer... but he's a west yorkshire honkey fella. cant really see him on stage with 60 pence now, but what he writes is good.

Its an age old story in music.