General Music Discussion

[Texface-Killah]

can be summed up with this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huvym4GZp1k

Proof

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REQ5V2BNjz8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7cyZK9AoAY

every once in awhile he'll confuse with one of these

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD-_YeOA5jc

and you're like "oh hey!!!"

but then RIGHT AFTER....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnpRRNU8dg8

[Drfunk1986]

that's his sound, yeah it **noel** and it's watered down but go find another producer, that's what i did and it made my life a joyess one. Anyone who puts a Lex Luger produced track on in my car get's their mp3 player thrown out the window

[Texface-Killah]

i dont mind it that much. it's good for bass, makes you look cool >__>

but my only problem is i dont understand why a rapper would pay money to rap over the sam sh-t over and over again. if i was in the studio with Rick Ross and Lex Luger... Lex Luger plays Ross a beat. Ross would be like "**noel**, SON!!! THATS ILL!!!" and i'd be all like "Yea of course you think it's ill, you rapped over that beat 3 times last year!!!"

Lex Luger sounds so much better when he samples. he should just stick to that and try to grow on it. the drums he uses sound dope over the samples. he could pioneer his own sound... but nope. he decided he wants to make the same beat over and over. cant blame him though, he's getting BIG money for essentially recycling all of his beats.

i'm a fan of Rick Ross and Smoke DZA for sure. but i definitely could use a good Madlib or RZA beat every now and then. fuuuuuudge, even a Big K.R.I.T. beat would be dope. He's a rapper and he makes better beats than Lex Luger...

[Drfunk1986]

i find sampled beats are usually the best (maybe it's because they tend to take from the music era i love and grew up around) but honestly sampling can be outdone or i guess it's just how you execute. Nobody nowadays really takes the time to "execute" their beats perfectly. It's always like, they get it done and they shoot it off for the money. Then you get like 10 other artists ripping that beat off by just putting themselves on it and releasing on a mixtape. It's really rare when you get an artist that really wants his own sound instead of doing everyone elses beats. Lex Luger seems content doing the same beat over and over again. I think right now, a versatile producer is Terrace Martin, he ads a really good jazz/hip-hop feel and the sax samples you hear he actually plays them. The day and age where people came up with original stuff though seems to be over though and it makes me sad. J-Dilla did it best.

[Texface-Killah]

i have heard of Terrace Martin, but i've never actually heard any of his beats... unless... did he do a song on the new Strong Arm Steady album? other than that, he's always on albums that i say i'm going to listen to but never get around to it... like Murs or Kurupt. Dilla is my 2nd favorite producer ever, but RZA is my favorite.

and there are plenty of original rappers and producers out there imo. i wouldn't necessarily call Curren$y original, although i love his music to death. his production is always something new. Ski Beatz, The Alchemist... they're all good. and i also like what Statik Selektah, 9th Wonder, !llmind, Black Milk and Apollo Brown are doing. i think they're creative. a lot of the new producers coming out are dope. and i would say the same thing about a lot of the new rappers. Kendrick Lamar can spit, Big K.R.I.T., Action Bronson, Freddie Gibbs, Danny Brown, and people can say what they want about him, but i think J.Cole is ill. i'm a huge fan of the new artists coming out since 3-4 years ago. i'm not too upset about the state of rap as it is right now; it's been worse. i think Hip Hop is beginning to get better. 

and i agree, i think sampled beats sound the best.

[Drfunk1986]

dont get me wrong, Curren$y is awesome and always fresh to me, but his "beats" are not "new". He takes a lot of his stuff from fusion or jazz works even going as far as to sample Jaco Pastorious and Jean Luc Ponty ( some of my favorite artists that are not even hip-hop related). He even sampled MF DOOM from his Special Herbs mixtape. Terrace Martin actually does a lot of production work for Kendrick Lamar and Wiz Khalifa. Here's some samples.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeSKxSzInyk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ1qBF2wdfA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHf_Qdpm-e8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icBGhNvNqW4

[EvangelionUnit00]

The first link was Waka Flocka, I am not clicking the rest.

[Drfunk1986]

your loss, i was supplying different artists.

[Texface-Killah]

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Drfunk1986 wrote:

dont get me wrong, Curren$y is awesome and always fresh to me, but his "beats" are not "new". He takes a lot of his stuff from fusion or jazz works even going as far as to sample Jaco Pastorious and Jean Luc Ponty ( some of my favorite artists that are not even hip-hop related). He even sampled MF DOOM from his Special Herbs mixtape. Terrace Martin actually does a lot of production work for Kendrick Lamar and Wiz Khalifa. Here's some samples.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeSKxSzInyk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ1qBF2wdfA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHf_Qdpm-e8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icBGhNvNqW4

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why do you put beats in quotations? for hip hop, i think it's a pretty new sound. especially Pilot Talk 1 and 2. Ski Beatz likes to use a lot of live instrumentation in his beats to avoid sample clearances, so i think it gives it a whole new sound. and his work with The Alchemist is ill, but The Alchemist is always ill. i just downloaded the new Gangrene album; **noel** SICK!!!!

those were some pretty chill beats. he likes working with Wiz, huh?

[Drfunk1986]

yea he works with Wiz, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop and them all. He's from the west so i see why. Doesn't matter, he brings a heavy jazz element that's been needed lately from all these generic "beats" that's been out there. LOL that last quotation was for you juss playin

[PhonkthePhilosopher]

If you can't recognize Flocka's "Hard in the Paint" as the masterpiece in expressionist rap that it is I don't know if this hip-hop life is for you.

[conanwong]

Juicy J's Get Higher track w/Lex Luger.

another beat with Lex Luger.

[westpark]

Ric Flair pwns.

[40_feet_below]

Dude's beats are garbage. He made one of the only bad songs on Chip tha Ripper's new mixtape.