Re: Headz2

The Sheriff DJ Lobo (emc9461@is4.nyu.edu)
Sat, 05 Jul 1997 21:46:34 -0400

i agree with both arguments on this issue...these are opinions...and in
no way are they suppose to influence YOUR opinions...in some ways i'm
sick of hearing the same samples, bass lines, etc...sometimes shit just
gets played out...but that doesn't necessarily mean we have to condemn
the artist or the song...it's the way the artist employs these
samples...for example: the pharcyde and nightmares on wax...the pharcyde
released their song circa 92...n.o.w circa 1995...if we're talking about
beating someone to the punch well obviously pharcyde wins...but it isn't
about that...it's about beatz...we shouldn't shun someone just cause
they used the same sample...it doesn't make one group better than the
other...it would be one thing if they sampled the entire song and called
it their own...but it seems that abstract hip hop pulls alot from the
mainstream sometimes...it gives the listener a different vantage point
in which to look at the sample...sometimes i even fall in the trap...i
hear a sample and all of sudden i dis the song cause of a "i've heard
it, done it, been there" attitude. there are times when i'm waxin' shit
down and people give me the fuckin' evil eye...cause i used a 2 sec.
pete rock sample...does that mean i took the easy road? i copped
out...cause i was too lazy to dig through half a billion crates of vinyl
to find the perfect sample...sometimes yes...but shit man being a DJ
isn't easy by any means...you get in the flow and your cuttin mad shit
and you think alright that kraftwerk sample will fit right in...i know
it's hard sometimes to simply forget where the sample comes from...but
we should take the song in as a listener without tainted ears.

i'm sick of thinking about this...

DJ Lobo

http://pages.nyu.edu/~emc9461/

elson trinidad wrote:
>
> At 12.26 PM 7/5/1997 PDT, mark givens wrote:
> > Dear List:
>
> >Last night I was listening to headz2 and I noticed how many tracks on
> >the first discs used beats from mainstream hip hop. One used the
> >beats from Pharcyde's she "keeps passing me by."
>
> How do you know it's from the Pharcyde record and not the original
> Nightmares on Wax recording?
>
> One of the downsides to sampling is when you take a sample from the same
> original source as another song,
> then you get accused of sampling off the other song.
> -30-
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