Bouddhabuzz (August 29, 2008 at 5:07 pm)

No you're right, i certainly hope it won't happen ^^

Tchalla77 (August 29, 2008 at 10:47 am)

Seems I've stirred up quite a hornets nest. Yes,have too been a fan of Pete Rock & CL Smooth,& liked what the Ghetto Boys did with Isaac Hayes on Mind Playin' Tricks On Me.These ,however,are rare exceptions to the rule,& it is profoundly sad to see the creative inertia so evident in African-American popular music over the past two decades.Can you really envisage the likes of P.Diddy,Ashanti,Usher et all being celebrated in 20-30 yrs with the same reverence we do Stevie,EW&F & Curtis Mayfield

Bouddhabuzz (August 29, 2008 at 4:47 am)

Sampling can be well done or not In the case of P. Diddy for example, he take the whole song and vibe. That's not creative. But other producer like DJ Premier or Pete Rock take a sample and change a small piece of a record (sometime just 4-5 seconde) and make something so different you won't even reconize the original sample.

FriedOnFormaldehyde (August 27, 2008 at 8:13 pm)

Great album...classic

rediwhen (August 20, 2008 at 7:00 am)

Thanks for your reply it was well recieved. Me myself I've worked as a Youth Supervisor for at-risk youth that can't read or write past the second grade level, but the minute they get angered they start quoting from these silly meaningless rap lyric's WORD FOR WORD! So music is very powerful, your own heartbeat will even try to mimic the beat of music (That's been scientifically proven). So again I appreciate your intelligent response and you have a lot of work to do educating these youngsters!

viciousdogproduction (August 20, 2008 at 3:32 am)

Those who merely consume music and dont respect the whole process as a art form in all aspects, aren't going to have a clue anyway, whether the track is sampled, or merely inspired by a classic artist

viciousdogproduction (August 20, 2008 at 3:31 am)

I wouldn't say over 90 percent...I might go with 80 or even 75...because I know plenty of young people who like I do listen to all styles of music and respect the pioneers who paved the way for new sound that's here today. I make my own tracks with samples, and I respect the original songs as a work of art in an of itself in addition to my finished version when I flip the sample. Not everybody's ignorant, but like you said a lot of people are and you are right.

rediwhen (August 19, 2008 at 6:48 am)

No one's hatin on the younger generation it's just that most of the younger generation (about over 90%) don't even take the time to research music let alone the origins of it. These so called rapper's don't even mention in thier sampled music anything about the artists who's music they are sampling. The influence of today's artists has way too much power over the youth of today, so it's not hatin, it;s given respect were it's do and puttin phonies in their place.

viciousdogproduction (August 16, 2008 at 6:52 am)

to all these people who are hating on sampling...YAHH TRICK YAHH. Half of us young people wouldnt even know about these old school artists if they werent sampled because we werent born in the freakin 70s or whatever...sampling is a way to take old art and create something new out of it as well as expose listeners to classic tunes from the past. Dont hate on it.

JacqueSun55 (August 10, 2008 at 1:59 pm)

Speekin of "unknown" artist check out Yusef Lateef, much of his art is being sampled by Nujabes