Biting has been a bit of a hot topic lately, most notably with XXXTENTACION accusing Drake of jacking his flow. Now it seems like the knives are out for Kendrick Lamar.
The track in question is “DNA.,” one of K. Dot’s most popular songs from his new album DAMN. A short clip has appeared on Instagram comparing it to the track “I Got I Got I Got” by a rapper named D.Zign. The Insta post bears the question: “Whoa…. #KendrickLamar’s new track #DNA sounds a whole lot like this rapper ‘D.Zign’s’ song ‘I Got’, which dropped months ago What do you guys think???”
D.Zign has spoken on the issue himself, posting a meme to Instagram to the same effect, and writing on Facebook: “So… Kendrick just gonna steal my shit on his ‘DNA.’ song?”
On first listen, the flows are certainly a little similar, but to call this a case of clear-cut biting seems like a bit of a stretch. After all, “I Got I Got I Got” dropped in 2015 and has roughly 370 listens on Soundcloud, which begs the question as to how Kendrick would have heard it.
However, there’s no denying that the similarity in the flow (and of course the prominence of the phrase “I got, I got, I got” in both songs) means it’s worth asking the question.
We’ll leave both tracks below for you to decide.
They always throw stones at the ones up top…drake is teflon so they try Kendrick…both efforts will fail
Nah I won’t fail when I bring down Drake. A 6-7 diss song EP is coming yall’s way and it will be brutal. He’s getting slaughtered.
Anyone can slaughter Drake lyrically, he’s a famous pop star. So unless you’re famous no ones even gonna care :/
@ Wish someone would take Drake down. Look son. It depends on how you look at lyricism. great lyricism isnt always using complicated adjectives and rhymes patterns. Kendrick can rhyme but who remembers them and can recite his crap line by line. Drake is good at double-entendrees and saying what sticks in your head ala Biggie, ACTQ, 2Pac and Jay-Z. Kendrick is good at more complex concepts ala Ghostface and Nas. Both styles have value. And I dont think one is harder than the other. A Radiohead album isnt any better than AC/DC. Its just different approaches. I dont think Kendrick is a better lyricist than Drake. I dont care how many cornballs from the suburbs say this. Hiphop isnt supposed to be encyclopedia or poetry. Its about saying something simple, slick and clever. There is just much value in doing good catchy hooks and slick lines.
Drake has double entendres? Best joke i heard all day. Drake is corny and his music is GARBAGE.
Sit your butt down and be humble
Yep, I hear it. It’s more of biting the opening sample. But I’ve heard worse, WAY worse. Still, it’s unusual of K Dot. Wouldn’t be surprised if Mike Will Made It gave Kendrick the idea and then Kendrick took it from there.
Sounds similar but the soundcloud song had only 370 views before kendrick dropped his song. I seriously doubt kdot even knew about this song
They’re not going to bite some popular shit.
No name rappers start coming out the wood work, everytime
Black lived matter hands up don#t shoot. Neandrathals zits skin
GOT ‘EM!!!!
Lets hope KENDRICK isn’t a FRAUD like DRAKE!! You cant claim king and then we find out somebody else writing your raps, or you stealing songs!!! Somebody got to get to the bottom of this!!!
How is he stealing songs? So, we can’t use certain parts of the same human speech? That’s not biting, unlike Drake of stealing an entire concept or allowing someone to write a song for you.
Not going to lie, there is definitely similarities. Especially since this D.Zign dude is from City of Industry, CA (not far from Compton). But really dude?!?! This D.Zign dude just posted a freestyle to “Humble”. Probably just upset that Kung Fu Kenny took a few words and made it hotter!
PS – Also funny that this D.Zign dude used a picture of JAY Z as his meme, considering he is one of the greatest and bit like half of his flows from others!
It actually really starts to sound similar at 1:35 — just skip ahead to that part you’ll see….other than that it doesn’t really, but hot damn — that part sounds basically the same!
You need a hearing aid my guy.
This is trolling by hip hop dx and the internet. Biggest stretch ever. Good jokes i guess.
Who cares if it got 370 listens, all we know is that a mainstream artist jacks d flow of a lesser known wannabe. Its 2 ways to this: Kendrick looses and ounce of credibility and DX is going to be on D.Zign’s dick for more hoe ass news just like d drake/xxxxtention skirmish.
So uh, what kind of mental illness are you suffering from man? Drake is garbage.
This songs sounds better than DNA also…
What a stretch, Drake fans running with this haha, D.Zign is garbage, I guess no other rapper is allowed to use the words “I Got” in their raps cause thats biting apparently haha foh! Drake fans hold this L
Drake fans dont care about this. Drake fans know Drake introduced Kendrick to the most of the world on Take Care and by taking him on tour when he was a relatively unknown. Then, he jumped on two on his biggest singles – Poetic Justice and F**kin Problems. Drake fans know Kenny didnt really outsell Drake because he had an extra 48 hours on that first week. Drake fans know Kendrick is getting flack because he is at the top of his game and presto: haters like to dis the top dawgs like Drake and Kendrick. When Drake fans see this, they just see what Drake haters did to Drake and be like “Ok Kenny got fake critics cause he is gettin famous”. Get real
uh oh here comes the real hip hop heads defending it , sounds like “uh uh uh no its not the same king kendrick is the realeast he has a big dick” they all are the same
I told u motherfuckers kendrick aint shit..this is bone thugs year bitch ….new waves album of the year ..bizzy krazy
Jesus. You are the same guy as OVOKiD, right? Fucking clown. No one gives a shit about iggity spiggity ass gay bone. Bone Thungz and Whormany is the gayest name ever. Queer.
Fuck u bitch..n no im not ovokid or whoever ur talking ..fuck drake kendrick cole n whoever else but bone
I get it!! DNA was a diss song to this guy LOL #CaseClosed
Wow. Drakes writes his own songs unless someone gives him one he asks for? LOL. KENDRICK uses ghostwriters? LOL. Not one mystery person credited on any of his tracks, unlike Frake. A song with one feature and 15 people credited as writers. LOL. He raps about his personal life? That’s the funniest shit ever. LOL. Started from the bottom? He was a teen actor, he has had money since he was young. Eu. Up on me we Goan see? LOL. This Canadian whiteboy is surrounded by sexurity. Most successfully of all time. He is. Barely on the top 5 list of albums sold and money earned. The cold in Canada must. E affecting your brain. Or lack thereof…
because they both chant “I Got” ? Not even close!! he didn’t bite, dude was using it wrong.
No Kendrick! You don’t get to steal people’s fLows! You don’t give us quality music as frequent as Drake.
Good for this D.zign dude I guess, he’s gonna get a lot of spins off this. But…it’s not that similar, claiming that Kendrick bit his semi-generic rap song is silly.
Duncan are you biting my posts?!?!
I referred to him as “this D.Zign dude first”!!!
LOL
Hahahaha…this is just the beginning
Who?
Always knew Kendick’s elfy dwarfy ass was a fraud.
Wow. I hope he enjoys his 5 mins of fame. This Dzign. Hey you know what? Since we all being weird, I got issues of Dzigns name as we have a rapper called Desiigner. You see how stupid this all is?
Maybe the producer stole the sound, and suggested it to Kendrick. It’s not always the artist who bites.
Who gives a fuck dude mad because nobody playing him but his family and not in the spotlight like Kendrick
bunch of attorneys at law lol
lol what a troll
drake is definitely a biter, kendrick doesn’t bite.
These headlines are always off. Blame the producer NOT THE RAPPER. Clickbait assholes.
Everybody trying to come up anyway they can. With everybody being a rapper these days. Songs and beats no doubt end up sounding alike. They both stole it from “I got” the keys.
WELL DZ JUST DID A COME UP! HE “HAD” 300+ LISTENS …BUT now due to this stupid unfounded claim and all the extra traffic… he might go gold.
This doesnt suprise me. Jay-Z mixer recently admitted Jayz is on YouTube and internet all day listening to underground rappers. Kendrick straight up biting on this one. Imagine the original song had the mixing and mastering like Kdot DNA? It would sound even more fire!
Probably stole it because it didn’t have a lot of views and he didn’t think people would find out because of that. Why would he steal something with a lot of views and get exposed faster?
You ain’t never lied
Fuck outta here!
They sound the sam n the hype is similar,but I don’t think he stole the tack. K dot gat flows for days and future
Whenever you on top. They gonna throw rocks at the throne. See every top rapper ever.
Hate him or love him, he gatt them and owns the rap industry now. I also got a lot of I gat I gat I gat, so bite my word too
who cares u rappers need to understand it aint about who did it first its about who did it right…not to mention how do we know you didnt hear the song make a replica joints and make up these allegation dont get me wrong artist steal but allegations these days ate hillariois even the xxxtencion dude swear drake is bitting over a flow and cadence he didnt stary its laughable
his song is wack you should be happy kendrick made it better lol sounds like he just wants attention
It’s a fucking trap song. The flow are limited. Also, “I got”, is a pretty common saying. I would chalk it up to lateral thinking. You ain’t tripping but I don’t think it’s biting.
Maybe kenny did this on purpose to mock these new school rappers…. just like his verse on HUMBLE that ends every line with AYE …. and his song YAH….
Similar in some ways. I think the flow is different though. I hardly doubt he heard dudes song and copied it. I think he’s proven himself capable of creating his own sound. With the amount of music being put out nowadays there are bound to be similar songs. BTW not really a fan of Kendricks music but can respect the hustle.
Wale got a song called DNA. he stole it from K.dot. who stole it from whoever that dzign guy is. All of these songs will be stolen by the good Ppl at OvO and turned into the sing a long hit of the summer.
You made it a hot line I made it a hot song
Music is so available these days of course a new song by a big artist is gonna sound like a song someone else did.
OK but whats you opinion on “FEAR” where he uses the flow from BEANIE SIGEL – “DIE”. He definitely deserves credit for that, im saying this as an artist and a big fan of both. Im curious how many heads that flew over ?
Haha yeah i caught that too. Love em both
The only thing similar in both tracks is I got, I got, I got. And I bet you, you’d find more songs with I got, I got, I got phrase in it if you really look. Other than that the flow is different, content is different, and the sounds are different. This is clearly reaching by dzing or whatever his name is
Similar beat. Similar flow (vaguely). But as a writer myself, as KDOT is, this is def not something done on purpose. Cmon Son. He 100% hasnt heard of this guy (although it sounds like a good song). The whole “I got, I got, I got” is obviously done in post by the producer (No, not the Beatmaker…the guy who does “production” on the song ei: instructing the beatmaker(s), engineer(s), and writers to colaborate into a single vision) so that theory is out the window. With that being said, as an original artist myself, it would be VERY HARD not to be butt hurt over the similarities. *heads to youtube to look up D. Zign* cuz he sounds dope.
U aint no writer. You a faker. Ur rhymes probably suck ass, 3000
lmao “compare the 2 songs” so desperate to draw attention to his song. just a big stretch but i guess these unknown soundcloud rappers need their promotion too
They all stole it from “I got” five on it and “I got” hoes in area codes.
Earl Sweatshirt has a song called DNA Kendrick stole it from him I think
Completely different subject matter
Now thiz bitchmade mark stillin???? And he stillin wacc chit???
Mane, get diz fruit outta here, make us WEST CIZZOAST dudes look g4y. I can’t be haddin dat!
Waitin’ on big snoop albuma nd eiht REAL MUXIC doe
i ka-noes playa. im wish ju . u iz a gggggg gang sta 4 realy like gelly , i hops we cud linnks upz and smoke sum cray uns, cuz u iz my style patna. does u get disa bility for be n a stupid fuk lik me . im chur u do play boiiii. i thot i seents u at da o fece lazt fieday . do u rhyme. lets start a grup we can kall ur selves da short bus shootaz get ats me
Ghostwriters and rappers often copy far lesser known songs for obvious reasons – copying a well known song will be noticed faster and by more people. Picasso said ‘bad artists copy great artists steal’ but in Hip Hop it is wrong to steal. Many court cases have proven that very unknown artists have been copied. It remains to be seen if the artists Kendrick bit off will have the resources to pay for lawyers to take it to court, or if they will be happy getting a little attention instead.
I’m not even a fan of KL, but I got to say no …..
he stole it from me. “I Got” paid today
Man. All you including hip hop dx be riding Kendricks dick a lil to hard. Y’all act like he’s a god. Hes just another rapper man. Stop this GOAT talk please.
Kendrick did It way better than that other wack shit
Even Kendrick stealing bars smh
No idea’s original – Nas
fuc diz ch!t mang ims is a real gang sta, like ur onez n only truly me yo. i got beg thangs popin . i gats da heat a . real recog nize da real. and& i c da fake chit. day like a tv i canz c right threw demz boyzz. they should be like a shady tree and gets da fucs out of di$ hip hop shit. we$t side rida for all da day pero
This is extremely stupid. You guys do realize that in the music industry, especially at Kendrick’s level (and style), artists have their songs recorded months even a whole year in advance in order to get the songs mastered, cleared, and visuals done and packaging. Not to mention the copying of thousands of CDs after that, so that the album drops in time. Takes some simple thinking.
Months and years? I dont think so bud. It takes about 2-3 weeks to Mix and Master. Not even a month. You dont know shit about recording studios lol
He didn’t say how long the process takes. He said how long projects tend to be finished before album releases. Not the same thing, Chum.
Damn.
KDot definitely stole that hook from him, its pretty obvious. Now is he going to pay up? For sure he is
Yes. This is exactly what Kendrick did. He we spent hours, days, weeks, scouring soundcloud looking for obscure artists to jack. Imagine that. Him and another rapper used the same two word phrase… Whoa. Holy shit. Damn Kendrick. You still raps and concepts now? This is huge!
You cats are fucking childish.
welcome to the world where everyone sounds like everyone else to the point they are making the legit same songs about nothing
Hey K. Dot fans… Did ypu actually here this song b4 y’all start Drakin D.Sign outta here… Its the exact same flow!
It’s a coincidence. That’s a trap song btw, and trap flows are always very similar to each other. HHDX reachin so hard smh… Is it wickedness? Nah it’s weakness. Damn.
Check out Mog-sog on SoundCloud for real YAHWEH music. Respect to K.dot, but I been speaking on YAH almost 2-3 years now. #PFNP. Yahweh’s da TRUTH! Shalom.
Mannnn… Anyone that thinks Kendrick went and stole this guy songs is crazy… Clearly 2 different songs.. With 2 different meanings… I dont understand how anyone could say he bit that song… Smh “I Got”
“You made it a hot line, I made it a hot song”
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