Colin Maneta
New member
@xaviton i completely get ur question, so lemme throw in my 2cents worth. I think it all depends on exposure. A lotta my peers(i'm 20) grew up on straight hip hop. so the only influence they have to begin with is hip hop. they hear their favourite producers sampling 70 soul with mellow strings and harpischords(*cough cough* RZA) and coz they only listen to hip hop, they emulate that. Truth be told, i got into hip hop when i was 17. But most of these dudes from my country(South Africa) grew up on house music, afropop and kwaito(google it)...so some kats are sampling kwaito this side of the world and it sounds MAD PROPER! Meth and Red caught on and sampled a kwaito track for the song "hey zulu"(they sampled a short zulu vocal chant "phezulu" which translates to "up" in english...)...so it all depends on exposure.i mostly sample american soul and r&b but im tryna shift from that and sample exclusively from movies coz i love film and it only makes sense to sample what u love.
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another thing is that hip hop is by far the least progressive genre i've ever known. cats still wanna bring the golden age sound back...smh. it's 2011 it's a new era...lets us younguns produce OUR interpretation of hip hop.Im not condoning the souljah boi's of the game, but i mean really, most people still produce the generic soul sampling stuff coz thats what "real" (a.k.a backward) headz wanna hear
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another thing is that hip hop is by far the least progressive genre i've ever known. cats still wanna bring the golden age sound back...smh. it's 2011 it's a new era...lets us younguns produce OUR interpretation of hip hop.Im not condoning the souljah boi's of the game, but i mean really, most people still produce the generic soul sampling stuff coz thats what "real" (a.k.a backward) headz wanna hear