There actually used to be a unwritten rules people lived by in the 80s and 90s. Mostly don't bite, don't put niggas samples on blast, don't ask someone what they sampled, don't ask for samples, don't sample hit songs, dig deep for some new shit that nobody else has messed with before or if someone has put your own flavor on it, ect. Most of the rules were about originality, not snitching and working hard to find samples. I think the big issue here is though is that there is a huge generation gap between producers in the 90s and producers in the 2000s/2010s. Outside of maybe Kanye, Pharrell, ?uestlove and a few others that can still do mainstream records most just do not know or respect those rules. And before someone says it yes I know Kanye has sampled smashes before. But he himself said back before he did H to the izzo he wouldn't have but someone asked him for it and he wanted the check. As far as loops loops aren't bad some samples should be looped. I dare you to tell me you can take 2 turntables and a tape machine and pull off what the Bomb Squad used to do. They would take like 7 or 8 loops mash them together and make them work in key and tempo again without all of the fancy shit we have today. They had turntables a recorder and wax. Hell even with all of the fancy tools we have today a lot of cats can't pull off what with loops what the Bomb Squad did. And its hard as hell to take a loop keep it as a loop but give the new song its own character that is not that of the original at all.
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I think ive made my point lol a lot of my favorite beats are loops
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It should also be added that chopping samples didn't come around from creativity but it came from the limitations of gear at the time. You had to chop up records and reconstruct them. After people got sued they started playing with the chops more. Now people just tend to loop something because they don't know about the history of what they are doing most of the time. Either way loops are the shit.