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I think the way I feel about bling r&b and hip-pop must be much akin to the way people felt about disco in the early 80s. I mean the shallow excess is really getting close to the absurd point. I don't care how many expensive cars you have or that hot women want you. I never did and will only continue not to. The whole genre as it appears on top-40 is so utterly uncreative musically Honestly there's not a second of Funkadelic's entire catalog that hasn't been exploited one, twice or more.
Sampling is just like recycling paper fibers. Each time you bring back a sample you have less fiber to it and need to be more and more creative. Popular R&B is going much the way of other really simple music like Jungle. I mean of the entire pop vernacular I can't think of anything more tired and uninteresting as the Amen break. That Chic sample (Faith Evans, Fatman Scoop, Others) is sounding exactly the same way to my ears. Musical innovators have already moved long past Jungle and R&B sampling into the finely spliced grooves of IDM, Breakcore etc. Catch up already, the sound is STALE.
Label me a racist, whatever I know I'm not. I'm so sick of the ass end of urban ghetto culture being in my face in every public place I visit. It's vulgar, misogynistic and materialistic.Yes, yes girls and cars and product placement is all very nice but can we move on already? There's lots of awesome hip-hop that's also conscious out there. Just look in the direction of Def Jux or Anticon. There's also a plethora of artists that are far beyond the fucked up racial barrier that Big Music Business loves to market to us.
Oh and I'm sick of pretty people being the only people represented on TV. I'm sure it's well documented that beauty is a culturally held perception so can all us supposedly "ugly" people start a revolt already?
Sampling is just like recycling paper fibers. Each time you bring back a sample you have less fiber to it and need to be more and more creative. Popular R&B is going much the way of other really simple music like Jungle. I mean of the entire pop vernacular I can't think of anything more tired and uninteresting as the Amen break. That Chic sample (Faith Evans, Fatman Scoop, Others) is sounding exactly the same way to my ears. Musical innovators have already moved long past Jungle and R&B sampling into the finely spliced grooves of IDM, Breakcore etc. Catch up already, the sound is STALE.
Label me a racist, whatever I know I'm not. I'm so sick of the ass end of urban ghetto culture being in my face in every public place I visit. It's vulgar, misogynistic and materialistic.Yes, yes girls and cars and product placement is all very nice but can we move on already? There's lots of awesome hip-hop that's also conscious out there. Just look in the direction of Def Jux or Anticon. There's also a plethora of artists that are far beyond the fucked up racial barrier that Big Music Business loves to market to us.
Oh and I'm sick of pretty people being the only people represented on TV. I'm sure it's well documented that beauty is a culturally held perception so can all us supposedly "ugly" people start a revolt already?
