no it doesnt show a lack of creativity. Damn stop bein so short-sighted. Alota artist freestyle a song first anyway, then go back and alter it to make the real track.
AND...
how many mainstream hip-hop listeners had heard those lines? not many so to those kats, that ish was somethin unheard b4.

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