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Originally Posted by philosofi

prob. the most true reply for this.. you hear storch do some crazy keyboarding (Eminem - The Real Slim Shady) because that's what his mind is trained to do. most producers who make real hip-hop (Hi-Tek, Pete Rock, etc.) grew up in the 70's-early 80's, so the 'soul' in music is what they're trying to accomplish. nowadays the culture is at the age where people are growing up on music from the 90's, which is, probably, why all the new 'gimmicks' are mostly CB-4 artists/producers whose background in music are probably people like Easy-E(i.e. The Game) Master P, Too Short, Wu-Tang, Scarface - & ne1 else who was as big in the early 90's, when music was basically sampling 100% of the time.

even THEN, Master P made his style from imitating Bay Area rappers like Too Short & E-40,,, and now you have one of the best artists in the South today (Young Jeezy) whose style sounds very similar to Master P (UUUUUGH!) so, the downward spiral begins..


on the MAKING of music tip though, i use FruityLoops alone, sometimes, and nobody can tell me my joints are garbage 'just because..'. you'd probably couldn't tell if i didn't tell u either.

Originally Posted by charliemizza

AMEN!!!!!!!........yeah, no shit. i hate to air it out, but im obviously not the only one who feels this way, so here it is:
the south, on a mainstream level, is just wack as hell lately! not just production, the lyrics too.
"Soulja Boy" got nominated for a grammy? Are you kidding me? What the hell's that song about anyway (seriously, if anyone knows please tell me - the video's confusing)? I knew that was FL7 the at the first marimba drop. I think a good producer makes ot hard to figure out, ya know? Now you got grown-ass men in the club doin that dance. What's the industry doing these days? Are they just signing people because the hook would make a good ringtone?
You said it well dude - from my perspective, cash money kinda had there own uniqeness...KINDA - with that song "bling bling". from there almost every up and comer from the south has been copying each other. Granted that it all started in the bronx, so then dre and nwa blew up the west.....the chronic dropped, then the south blew up. i think hiphop kinda migrated from east to west - in which time there was good, new creativity, then it migrated south and...well... that goose must have had a hard landing cuz it's been retarded ever since - save a few. Ludacris for one. I'm not a HUGE fan of his music, but it's a lot more intersting than most. At last he's original. T.I., big up. Let's not forget UGK - they've been grindin forever! Other than that in my opinion - and take it as no more than that -a new, exciting sound has yet to come from the south.

So what's left? MIDWEST BABY!! Let's bring it!

I second this (or third?) oh and you forgot Outkast for the southern rappers category