From: Elson Trinidad (elson@westworld.com)
Date: Mon Dec 02 2002 - 21:03:29 CET
At 09:43 AM 12/2/02 -0500, you wrote:
>dear list: I hate the first single but I heard the rest of the cd on
>Aol and its actually good. There are a coupleof songs based on much loved
>hip hop loops such as "Nuttin but a G thing" and Cubes "y'know how we do
>it" . But theyre good songs too. all in all as not bad as the first
>single would lead you to think.
You know, I'm not going to chide you for mentioning Pariah Scary on this
list, and neither am I gonna go on the typical cliche "pop music sucks,
it's for the lowly masses, it should be banned, etc, et al" rant on this
list, but for goodness sakes, NO ONE, neither underground nor mainstream
should be applauded for re-re-re-re-sampling any tune. I mean, if you got a
hip-hop tune and you sample some older tune the FIRST TIME, fine, it may be
cool, it may suck, but fine. But it just gets on my last nerve when people
keep rehashing that @#$%& sample over and over again. "Nouthin But a G
Thang" is a sample of Leon Hayward's, "I Wanna Do Something Freaky To You."
IT'S BEEN DONE, MOVE ON PEOPLE! SAMPLE SOMETHING ELSE! And that means you,
J-Lo and Ashanti, too!
I guess every song in the western hemisphere has been sampled. That's why
hip-hop producers are sampling all these Bollywood tunes from India now...
Elson
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