Warning: This isn't another synth vs sample BEEF thread, I don't even think I need to say this... cuz it's tedious. But just to let you know, besides this thread is for samplers ONLY, beetches!

Anyway, I was thinkin the other day, not that I'm an expert by any means. But I was tryin to make my first complete synth beat the other day, and I mean it was nothing to write home about. I think a few parts were decent, maybe I'm being modest. But as samplers, do you even really care to make synth beats??

I mean, I don't wanna limit myself but for me theres never been anything that matches a dope sampled track. I think flipping a sample can have just as much of a degree of difficulty as anything else so I'm not speakin on those terms. I'd kinda like to have keyboard work in my bag of tricks, but sometimes after I hear a track by 9th or Kanye... I'm like WHY? The shlt is crazy. Sometimes I think, maybe it's just our niche, our lane. You don't hear the Neptunes tryin to flip samples over and over, and you don't hear 9th behind a Motif, ya feel me?

I know alot of the faithful insecure "original composers" of FP have tons of defense mechanisms to try to make them seem bigger. I noticed one of them was, "what are you gonna do when you run out of things to sample?". I honestly don't think we'll ever run out of records to sample. Atleast not in my lifetime. And these days so many cats are sampling newer songs and makin it hot, this shlt ain't never gonna stop.

I got some of the rarest 9th joints, and every one of them are heat... I can't believe it. His crates never run dry. At this point, as far as I wanna take my synth work is too get good enuff where I can layer a sample I consider to be bland or empty like Kanye does with some tracks (IE the Dead or Alive sample). Maybe my outlook on this will change if I ever become more handy behind a keyboard, but as of now this is just how I feel.

Not to discredit those who do make ill synth beats. They know who they are and I show'em love. It just seems everybody has there lil niche, very few people master both fields well... maybe only Just Blaze. Pete Rock, Yay, 9th, Premo... all dig. And you got the Neptunes, Lil Jon who stay in their lane too with very few crossovers. Anyway, I was just wondering everybody elses thoughts and experiences on this issue?? Discuss.