Joey Beats is way too nice of a dude....
So some kid from Philly steals the works of Joe Beats and puts it on the internet, claiming it as his own. Here is the aftermath that JB posted on the Non-Prophets forum. This kid is a lucky bastard.
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Ok, ok....
I've spoken to Digital on the phone. He's very sorry and very very very embarrassed. Apparently he posted up that stufff when he first started about a year ago.
I told him I'm not upset even though he kept insisting I should be...haha.
Unfortunately, with the popularity of hip hop in the mainstream and indie hip hop on the internet, kids have no background or history on the music and the surrounding artforms that assisted in it's creation. Yes, it's gotten that far from its roots.
It's already bad enough the source of sampling is another's work. From the outsider's perspective it's thievery. Then again, if person x had any clue as to how more than half of this music was made, they'd see the art in it.
Sadly, the push to have sampling noted as a respectable artform was somewhere lost in between kids who love Prince Paul rocking Say No Go and hating Puffy's usage of Dianna Ross. That said, things got worse.
In the late 90's it was sampling drum breaks from scratch records and compilation represses and reissues for loops.
Then it was sampling mp3's. Whatever gets you over.
Now it's all about rocking old school breaks (that have been used to death) with synths on top of it. This method succeeds on the ignorance and lack of knowledge of the current buying audience's part; the youth.
In the coming years all of these SUPER producers will try and become front men. Some of them will sing (along with your favorite emcees); all in the guise of doing something "new", "different", or "experimental". Some will abandon sampling all together. Worse, both might claim sampling is not real musicianship and side with safe opinions of the old and rotting business execs, rendering it "stealing".
I don't voice my opinion on the matter much but I find all of the above absolutely disgusting.
This leads me back to Digital...
I've since vowed to teach my new friend about breaks. I'm going to teach him the very thing he should've known from the getgo but didn't. I'm sending him a package of breaks tommorow. We start from the minute he recieves the records.
Thanks for the support....
Digital is now my protege; an ally.
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Ok, ok....
I've spoken to Digital on the phone. He's very sorry and very very very embarrassed. Apparently he posted up that stufff when he first started about a year ago.
I told him I'm not upset even though he kept insisting I should be...haha.
Unfortunately, with the popularity of hip hop in the mainstream and indie hip hop on the internet, kids have no background or history on the music and the surrounding artforms that assisted in it's creation. Yes, it's gotten that far from its roots.
It's already bad enough the source of sampling is another's work. From the outsider's perspective it's thievery. Then again, if person x had any clue as to how more than half of this music was made, they'd see the art in it.
Sadly, the push to have sampling noted as a respectable artform was somewhere lost in between kids who love Prince Paul rocking Say No Go and hating Puffy's usage of Dianna Ross. That said, things got worse.
In the late 90's it was sampling drum breaks from scratch records and compilation represses and reissues for loops.
Then it was sampling mp3's. Whatever gets you over.
Now it's all about rocking old school breaks (that have been used to death) with synths on top of it. This method succeeds on the ignorance and lack of knowledge of the current buying audience's part; the youth.
In the coming years all of these SUPER producers will try and become front men. Some of them will sing (along with your favorite emcees); all in the guise of doing something "new", "different", or "experimental". Some will abandon sampling all together. Worse, both might claim sampling is not real musicianship and side with safe opinions of the old and rotting business execs, rendering it "stealing".
I don't voice my opinion on the matter much but I find all of the above absolutely disgusting.
This leads me back to Digital...
I've since vowed to teach my new friend about breaks. I'm going to teach him the very thing he should've known from the getgo but didn't. I'm sending him a package of breaks tommorow. We start from the minute he recieves the records.
Thanks for the support....
Digital is now my protege; an ally.