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Originally Posted by louder
He used to have a pretty decent taste (Fiona and Portishead come to mind) but nowadays he only listens to trendy club music. He's obviously going through a midlife crisis.
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That much is brutally obvious. What always made hip hop great was not just the sampling, but in how the music they listened to INFLUENCED the music they created. Hip Hop was always a wider reflection of the great music that influenced hip hop artists. With Kanye, and a lot of contemporary rappers, their music is crap because they are listening to crap.
I used to listen to hip hop JUST FOR THE SAMPLES. When Tupac "Bad Boys Can't Stop Thug Life" comes up with that chorus sampling of Strawberry Letter 23 I LOSE MY SHIT.. indeed whenever that sample comes on I jump and start grooving!!!
This is crucial Hip Hop 101 which evolved out of Reggae culture.. in reggae original music isn't as important as it is in other genres, indeed quite the opposite! Many artists prefer to write and sing their original songs over "samples" of "riddims" because they know that people like me will go nuts when they hear they "favorite riddim" indeed on the dance floor whenever I hear my favorite riddim I don't even notice what the SingJay is singing.. I just get enraptured in my favorite song to dance to!!
THAT is essential to hip hop, that you not only hear your favorite rapper BUT you also hear your favorite songs from growing up. After all, the original samples were all that Grown Folkz Music from our parents and now grandparents record collections.
Further that the new music reflects sounds and elements that you loved in the old music. The new shit samples less, and what they sample sucks, and what they listen to sucks, and their own new shit sucks because they sound like the shit they listen to that sucks!