Dot_Robinson
Psalms 37:4
Threw out the history of hip-hop, the relationship between producer and rapper, has always been a slippery slope. In an era of ringtone rappers, digital producers, Myspace and YouTube, can a musical bond really manifest into conceptual music? Or is the tradition of the, one producer album dead?
In my opinion, hip-hop artist are lacking originality. Not only in the creative process of lyrical conception, but in the selection of beats that drive vocals just as much as the delivery. If you look back at the late 80's, early 90's, the one producer method drove hip-hop to it's golden era status. You had Dr.Dre and Snoop Dogg, RZA and The Wu-Tang Clan, Eric B and Rakim, Rick Rubin and LL Cool J, ect. These producers gave life to the artist by creating a sonic back drop. In most cases, this usually resulted in major financial success.
In early 2007, Timbaland and Justin Timberlake crafted, in my opinion, one of the best pop albums of the last decade. I became seriously motivated in finding the right producer to paint the right sonic background for myself. In my search, I came across alot of so-calleds, instead of bonifide young talent. Alot of point and click producers, as opposed to the hungry youth I thought I find out in LA. So now im faced with a tough question. Is the music industry so destroyed, that a producer and a rapper, can't craft original LPs together?
If a starving artist approached you, wanting to create an album from scratch, would you do it? Would you charge him/her, or would you try to cultivate the artist into one of your own? Im really interested in some opinions.
In my opinion, hip-hop artist are lacking originality. Not only in the creative process of lyrical conception, but in the selection of beats that drive vocals just as much as the delivery. If you look back at the late 80's, early 90's, the one producer method drove hip-hop to it's golden era status. You had Dr.Dre and Snoop Dogg, RZA and The Wu-Tang Clan, Eric B and Rakim, Rick Rubin and LL Cool J, ect. These producers gave life to the artist by creating a sonic back drop. In most cases, this usually resulted in major financial success.
In early 2007, Timbaland and Justin Timberlake crafted, in my opinion, one of the best pop albums of the last decade. I became seriously motivated in finding the right producer to paint the right sonic background for myself. In my search, I came across alot of so-calleds, instead of bonifide young talent. Alot of point and click producers, as opposed to the hungry youth I thought I find out in LA. So now im faced with a tough question. Is the music industry so destroyed, that a producer and a rapper, can't craft original LPs together?
If a starving artist approached you, wanting to create an album from scratch, would you do it? Would you charge him/her, or would you try to cultivate the artist into one of your own? Im really interested in some opinions.
