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Originally Posted by gearaddict  I agree with you. I think hip hop needs to get some new gear...it all sounds the same..and I really thought that sampling someone elses music would hvae died out by now! It is always so cool to see someone like jay z on stage with a real band playing real instruments! It has a sound that you can only get that way..Most of the rap comeing out today all have the same drum samples and sound like my kid did it drawing squiggley lines across fruity loops! I think that if all the talented hip hop artists had to learn how to create their own sounds and music..with real instruments..hip hop would grow bigger than it is now..I mean wouldnt it be cool when a song came on the radio, you knew who it was as soon as the music started..insted of haveing to wait and here the voice to know who it is, because all the music sounds the same!! Same thing with most pop song today..but at least they know how to play a chord..that may be all they know but it's better than nothing!
A hip hop artist I used to record and fix up his fl beats for used to come with a few beats he did and I would listen to them and say...ummm you know that synth line is hitting bad notes as it goes on...he says...it sounds good to me..i dont know what out of tune sounds like..I just draw it in untill it sounds good.....and theres your problem!!!  |
I agree with you on the fact that most "hip hop" today is lacking alot of musicality. But dont forget that this music was founded my kids in the ghetto without instruments of their own. That is why sampling done by an artist is more musical than some jackass drawing in notes on a midi grid. I dont know if having a backing band will help keep "hip hop" alive but it might bring in interest from festivals that dont host those acts typically. I doubt that live bands will relive creativity in "hip hop" since The Roots have been doing that for years now and still havent broken into the mainstream yet. So if the Nelly had a backing band on all of the his tracks, do you think it would boost sales, yet alone creativity? The answer is no, but you are at least going in the right direction. I think the whole attitude that "hip hop" is easy is a false one, and that adding more complexity to it would make it more "musical" is BS. Remember, when Jazz became more complex, folks started to more away from it to listen to crooners and nolvety songs. So I think that making "hip hop" more complex wouldnt help it much musically, hell, it might even hurt it.
Keep the discussion going...