Queen Latifah a regal act.(WASHINGTON WEEKEND)(RIFFS)

The Washington Times | October 11, 2007 | Copyright

Byline: Jenny Mayo, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Hip-hop music has been borrowing and recycling ever since the moment of its creation, when a few DJs messed around with the breaks of disco records and invented a new genre. Nowadays, choice samples and even lyrical loans from yesterday's works make the song - just ask contemporary chart master Kanye West.

But what irks us "old heads" is that today's audiences often haven't done their homework. They don't know where the current crop of killer snippets and snappy phrases came from before Diddy or the artistic flavor ...

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