Yo, this shit was on AHH at the beginning of the month and I meant to investigate, but I never got around to it now (thank goodness for Firefox's save session feature lol). Anyway, a local Tampa. Florida rapper named Acafool is calling Papoose a thief and claiming he bit his song Hatablockaz in Pap's new song Fitted Hat Low(-ish). Before I read the letter or compare the songs for yourself I just wanna say this is a bad attempt at garnering some publicity by this Acafool guy lol. Now that I got that out of the way here's the letter he sent illseed:
Imitation… The highest form of flattery, or theft?
Independent Tampa, Florida music artist Acafool released “Hatablockas” in late 2005. Garnering radio play on over 30 radio stations, the original “Hatablockas” has had more than 4500 spins to date, and landed Acafool on the pages of XXL in December 2006 for Show and Prove.
Recently, fans have started contacting Acafool about a song by Papoose called “Fitted Hat Low,” that uses Acafool’s trademark line “I got my HATABLOCKAS on.” Acafool’s camp reached out to Papoose to discuss the situation, but representative’s for Papoose stated, “We don’t want any drama.” Yet later, email blasts were sent to DJs by Violator to start promoting “Fitted Hat Low” as Papoose’s new song “Hatablockers,” an undeniable theft of Acafool’s title. What’s worse, when a few DJs wouldn’t touch Papoose’s version of “Hatablockas,” a representative from Violator went as far as to say that he had two pairs of HATABLOCKAS (the sunglasses) that he got from Acafool a year earlier in Tampa.
Papoose is quoted as saying, “I never came into this game with no gimmick, I never had to diss nobody to get attention. I always came with pure talent, pure material” (Source: Wikipedia). So we have to ask, whose pure talent and whose pure material? We know that this “new” material from Papoose is definitely not original.
Has coming up with new lyrics and sounds become so difficult that so-called artists like Papoose feel justified in stealing titles and full lines from original songs by original artists? Many artists’ sample or reference key phrases from other artist’s music, but that is not the situation here. This was a theft of intellectual property, property that is a copy written product; even if it weren’t a legal issue, it’s one of respect for the other artists in the game. Just because you like a concept, doesn’t mean you can take it and try to pass it off as your own.
Acafool’s “Hatablockas,” which is still big in the South and overseas, is in rotation and is expanding to other areas of the US.
Acafool is quoted as saying “Be a writer not a biter.”
From the third person perspective this letter is written in I'm guess this supposed to be from Acafool's publicist, but we all know local artist don't have publicist so it was more than likely written by Acafool lol. Anyway, I'll let y'all listen to the songs below before I go any further:
Acafool - Hatablockaz
Papoose - Fitted Hat Low
Is this nigga serious??? Besides both of these songs being wack, the ONLY similarity in these two song is "I got my hatablockas on!" I'm sitting here under the impression that he jacked a bunch of the lines he said or the beat or some shit, nope just 5 fuckin' words! He might as well go around calling everybody a thief because this is NOT the first I've heard someone say "hatablockas" and sure as hell not the last. Instead of this genius being happy someone would take his phrase, he goes and gets mad and tries to get a little exposure out of it. This shit is just sad. I mean seriously, what is he expecting to get out of this??? Now he has NO chance of making it in the industry, and will be remembered (if remembered at all) as the nigga that tried get some fame off Papoose's status. Sad.
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