But, by extension, it also gave birth to Rick Ross, who luka and I revere.
I am of the opinion that even 'bad' influences in music can be good influences over a long enough period. Either through people reacting against them or taking them on and running with them.
One tune I'd cite as a bad influence, though, is 'Rubber Chicken' by Caspa. (Please ignore the following, luka, as you consider all dubstep a priori shite.) At the time we - that is, me and my loefah/skream/dmz venerating mates - all loved it, PARTICULARLY the 'mad as a brush' second drop where the wobbles go so mad it feels like the tempo is warping. But I feel like this tune, even more perhaps than Coki's tunes, opened the door for dubstep to become DEFINED by wobbles, which meant that by 2009/10 you had DJs playing wobbler after wobbler after wobbler. Although really it only became SUPER offensive post 'Spongebob' (although I still think Coki is a genius, many of those gnarly industrial shit-fits included).