Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Is He Creative or RE-Creative?
A collection of Before and After samples from the boy 'Ye. I love dude as an artist, but as a producer WOW...Ya'll be the judge...watch this video and witness the genius of his production catalog unravel before your eyes!
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This is CRAZY! All he does is speed the samples up and maybe add some drums or sounds (I'm not a producer so forgive my lack of technical knowledge). And he uses A LOT of samples and he's taking a loss on A LOT of publishing. I think it's cool to sample but at least flip the beat! His sampled songs are so similar to the originals it's ridiculous!
You know, I think a lot of people knew that Kayne sampled quite liberally for all of his albums and beats. Theres no suprise there. In fact, everyone who likes kanye (and knows anything about hip hop) has to know that what they really like is how he uses the samples. 'Ye isn't a strong lyracist, but he can produce. I think his brilliance lies in his choice of samples - Yes he's sampled some well known songs but what he really does is transform mainstream pop culture with his selection. For a while his albums were bringing people back to old soul (and look at the diplomats products too, and wu tang, off the top of my head) but with graduation he switched it to techno, and now techno is a huge thing. I DJ at a club full of rich white college kids who only listen to top 40 hits and they all now want 'club songs' i.e. techno mixes for the later half of the night. He's a trendsetter and his genius is in his samples, maybe not so much in his actual technical ability to change them.
This is kind of a backwards compliment of a youtube video....they take the obvoius part of a track and match it to kanyes part when u have to go through the entire record and find the right chords to sample. and they use his more heavily sampled songs.....you can do this with any artist in history....I can make one of alicia keys or john legend if i had time.
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meh, fuck kanye....you gotta take his spot stro! you got the heat for it
Lbeezy you crazy sayin kanye aint a strong lyricist! Kanye can spit! Also touch the sky was produced by just blaze!
IDK about you, but the samples don't give me the same feeling as Kanyes flips.
Kanye brings a different feel to the samples. I don't like soul music.... I like rap music. So he made some of these songs more "listenable" to ppl like me.
The Blueprint's production by Kanye is unheralded. Its his best production and was missed in this youtube. 20001-2003 was Kanye at his best. After that, his chop game got lazy and he just looped and looped. Its hit or miss. Still a great producer. 808 will be his demise.
Pandemonium Speakerboxx - I agree 100% with you..
IMHO, all the songs in the video are trash.. I have hundreds of sample libraries, but I never use them.. I personally just use them to compose something completely different than the original song.
man, the fact of the matter is Kanye recorded and released great songs. How many ppl can sit down, listen to those songs and hear the potential he heard in them? He basically made them all into his own songs.
and on top of all of that, hip hop started off sampling EVERYTHING, so since when has it become taboo?? if u say fuck kanye, then why not say fuck hip hop too? Sampleing is and has always been an art, and the fact that ppl so frequently misunderstand it is causing it to slowly decline.
And besides, Kanye isn't trying to hide any of it. Hes very open about the fact that he samples.
Stop hatin
hahahah damn Maestro! Ya blog is hot!!! I jus opened up comments on mine too.. I need to get up to this status tho!! LOL
On Kanye:
Sampling is easy. Sampling well is not easy. Kanye reminds me of the sampling version of Swizz... Let me explain lol cuz that's a pretty loaded statement:
When Swizz makes a beat, it's all energy, very little thought. Mostly just raw energy and FEELING. he bangs on shit with a certain kind of energy and chooses sounds with a no-second-guessing-intuition that results in a sometimes messy (but always energetic) type of sound.
I think Kanye is similar when it comes to sampling, he doesn't sound like his process is very methodical, it's more intuitive. I think he finds the first sound that works and runs with it, but its very energetic and soulful. I wouldn't be surprised if his process was very similar to Swizz's but just with more sampling and less keyboarding.
However, I think Kanye has a methodical MIX-STAGE process where he starts THINKING more. What to add, sequences, breakdowns. etc. I think Swizz just hands it to the engineer and lets him do the work
Just Blaze on the other hand, is the type of sampler that THINKS a lot more in my opinion. His drum sound choices are very selective and seem well thought out. He knows how to pick that PErFECT snare to fit into the sample. Everything just seems so "right" like it was meant to be. Sort of similar to Dre.
I do not think one approach is better than the other, I think each is great depending on what your going for. I also feel all of the above producers have the ability to take on the opposite approach at any given time. Just going by majority of what I hear...
I could be totally wrong though!!!! But it's just some food for thought.......
shit that was a pretty long post! lol ima have to add it to my blog lol
Good post, I just did a response on flyingwithdafishes
Listen to 'Angel' on the The Game's latest album LAX..nuff said..
wow...sounds like a hater to me.
i cant speak for anybody else but I knew kanye was a "sampler" from his first album...i still love him tho and i still think he's very creative. Not only has he taken some of my old favorite songs and made them hot again(but in his own way) he also introduced me 2 sum good old songs...I hope yall get wat im saying lol
Yo I gotta say, he might sample but he does alot more than that when it comes to producing the final track. Maestro you know its alot more than just making the beat. Check his fade to black scene. (You probably have already)
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