A bite is when someone uses material from another Rap/Hip Hop song or battle and uses it in a Rap/Hip Hop song or battle. When someone takes material from a realm outside of Hip Hop, it could be considered plagiarism, wack and uncreative, but it isn't, by strict definition, a "bite."
If you're going to expand biting to plagiarism from any source, then Hip Hop itself has been biting from its inception. We started off mostly sampling from music from other genres. The people who originated this art form didn't consider that biting though. "Biting" was introduced when rappers started to plagiarize other rappers. Nicholas didn't steal these wordplays from another verse. He got them from a non Hip Hop related website. That is wack because he didn't use his own creativity, but it's still not a "bite." There isn't one of us who hasn't used a popular phrase, pun or idiom to construct a punchline. Maybe it was something we just heard growing up and we may have not lifted it from a website, but I can almost guarantee that most of these phrases could be found listed and tabulated by someone on some website. What difference does it make if you use a popular saying you heard growing up or you find a list of such sayings on a website and use it? You're still using a concept you didn't originate yourself. In my opinion, in Hip-hop, everything is game as long as it's not another rapper's material. That's how it's been from the beginning.
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