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californaya:
All these have been mentioned already, but I'm just listing what I listen to:
Beastie Boys (To The 5 Boroughs wasn't horrible, but it was still not quite up to what I would expect from them, considering how great they once were.)
K-Os (B-Boy Stance is in my Top 5 favorite hip-hop songs EVAR.)
Handsome Boy Modeling School (White People is probably the greatest collabo project between rock and hip-hop ever done.)
Jurassic 5
M.I.A. (What Spencer said.)
The Streets (I LOVE THE STREETS. I'm a big fan of albums that tell a story {recent examples include the Mars Volta album and Green Day's American Idiot}, and A Grand Don't Come For Free actually tells one that is very easy to relate to. And their previous album, Original Pirate Material, is just a whole bunch of great hip-hop.)
Dizzee Rascal
Outkast (They are just a great hip-hop duo, with Stankonia probably being the epitome of their career, IMO.)
I think that's most of it.
Luke:
I'm a newbie to this area of the forum, so I'll start off with a list too.
- Dr. Dre
- G-Unit (50 Cent, Tony Yayo, Young Buck, Lloyd Banks, The Game)
- Eminem & D-12
- Kanye West
There're a whole bunch of others whose albums I have & listen to, but those on this list are my top priorities.
Druid:
--- Quote from: MilkmanDan ---so use of samples doesn't make The Go! Team Hip-Hop.
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I sampleing was the only criteria for sampleing then MBV would be hip-hop.
KharBevNor:
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Don't know who the first person would be who made a song based on a sample of other people's music. Maybe Afrika Bambaataa mashing-up two Kraftwerk tracks for "Planet Rock"?
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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_%28music%29
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Early Precedents
In the 1940's, some Musique concrète composers utilized portions of other recordings to create new compositions.
In the 1950's, Bill Buchanan and Dickie Goodman released a song, "The Flying Saucers", which featured samples of various then-popular songs, all taken out of context from their original material and used as answers to a wacky reporter's question about spaceships from another planet. Goodman would later make a career out of similar "break-in" or "snippet" records, and is today considered one of the fathers of pop music sampling.
An interesting early use sampling was on Charlie Haden's 1969 release, Liberation Music Orchestra: A few of the album's numbers (such as "Song For Che") feature fragments of Gramophone recordings of songs from the Spanish civil war, but integrated as part of a new song.
1969 also saw "Revolution 9" from the Beatles' The White Album, composed partly of portions of orchestral recordings.
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Spencer:
If you ask me, the best beats right now are coming from the Pop groups. The Brittany's, the Justins, the N'Syncs and the like. I can certainly see where Druid is coming from, saying that mainstream rap beats are uninspired. I know there hasnt been a mainstream rap hit in a while that I've really latched on to.
But I definitly think that mainstream hip hop shines when it comes to it's dance tracks. Producers seem to really let loose and break out some really fun ass shaking stuff. "Crazy in Love" by Beyonce is probably one of the best examples of the past few years I can think of in regards to this ("Toxic" also immediatly springs to mind). And of course, Timbaland does/did some of his best work with Missy Elliot and Aliyah. And yes, I admit, that Usher remix with Lil' John is hot.
As an aside, I never got 50 cent. I guess I just cant stand his cadence.
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