Ambitionz Az A Plagiarizah: Canadian Poet Blatantly Copied One Of Tupac’s Poems
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It seems that a lot of Canadian wordsmiths like to steal work from others and label it as their own (we’re lookin’ at you, Drake). Canadian poet laureate Pierre DesRuisseaux was found to have plagiarized the work of late rapper and poet, Tupac among many, many others.
“Poetry detective” Ira Lightman discovered some alarming details about DesRuisseaux’s poems. She stated that, “two days of sleuthing found 30 out of 47 poems that were heavily based on the work of others.” Included in these 30 instances was ...