Zombie kidnappings and Bob Dylan

All property is theft. So why not steal someone's life, or someone's work, or someone's dress code?Every month, this column starts life as an impassioned plea that the new musical genre defined by Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak and then developed by J Cole, Drake and the Weeknd should henceforth be universally known as "singy hip-hop". The plan is to examine different critical perspectives on the rehumanisation of the rap vocal hook – from the sample through the live R&B cameo, to its reincorp...

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