lol this feels like you're trying to pull some kind of uno reverse on me, but feel free to check these out. Probably my favorite beats I've made.
Feel free to dig around my soundcloud. I've got a bunch of Nas remixes if you want to stay on topic.
I wasn't knocking Get Light as a song. It's probably my favorite joint from KD3. Sample packs are just a lazy, paint by the numbers, soulless way to make beats, and it calls into question his ear, work ethic and ability as a producer. I'm not saying he has to sample strictly vinyl or some old head shyt like that. There's tons of producers that play out their own melodies, which is even more impressive IMO. When it comes to sampling though there's more to it than just chopping and looping. Digging is an entire skill in its own. Those that dig at least have an ear to pick out sounds. Madlib famously goes by the loopdigga, and most of the time he is living up to his name and just looping samples with minimal input, but he has an ear so even when he isn't doing crazy chops, or even bothering to add drums, his signature sound comes through because of sample selection alone. Using sample packs is basically being spoon fed a premade beat. It's fisher-price my first beat, duplo building block shyt. There's creative ways to use sample packs, but for the most part hes just plugging in the melody and adding drums. And sometimes, like with Get Light, he's just putting in a drum break from another pack. Drag, drop x2, maybe a pitch change, time stretch, filter if he's feeling fancy, and that's it. Add in the vocal sample and you have a beat ready in 3 minutes because someone else created the loop and another person created the drum break. If it was one time it would be one thing, but this is something he's doing all the time.
KD1 had better production, but the bars were lacking. Nas wasn't back in form yet. I'd say there's a good chance KD1 ends up having more replay value for me than this joint though.
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