Snoop Dogg calls out today's rappers for sampling other artists hit songs and f*cking it up.

[GetRichOrDieTryin]

I honestly like it

Not everyone can do it right but it's music at the end of the day
I love hearing old songs being flipped

 

[Po pimp]

Heard this at the gym the other day

 

[MurderToCassette]

It's not just hip hop its music in general. Went to go buy dinner and they were blasting this at the pho spot







An example of how to flip a classic and put your own spin on it

 

[InGodWeTrust]

That nikka is one of the horsemen of the apocalypse regarding this topic

Yung Berg/Hitmaka.

Y’all need to check his discography. Dude does nothing but bite shyt that ain’t old.

Literally takes a greatest hits of 90s-00 hip hop and r&b and makes it for a new artist’s guaranteed radio single

 

[Redwing80]

Snoop is 100% right. Go on the radio and there's rappers sampling hit songs and making them worse. You'd rather just listen to the original.

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

I love Rihanna but wild thoughts ain’t it everytime I think a classic coming on it’s Bryson tiller

 

[Love Sosa]

 

[Kenny West]

Agree. There is a distinct difference between real sampling skill turning a section of a song into something entirely new.

What he's describing here is the practice now of people who just take a hit song and sample it's iconic riff/hook/section and put their garbage raps over top of them. 99% of what makes the new song listenable is from the sample, everything new added (the loop and of course the raps) is a net negative. I've heard songs where a nikka used a sample from an iconic song and just let the sample play as the hook. Absolutely awful. It's the most lazy anti art dogshyt way of making rap.

If I could remember the names of any Latto songs I would fill this thread up with examples

 

[Wacky D]

Snoop butchered alot of classics as well, including hip-hop remakes.

 

[head shots101]

Both of these guys owe their careers to sampling popular 60s and 70s soul artists

Sounding like bitter ass old heads.

Watch the video

 

[head shots101]

lol a lot of yall didn’t watch the video

 

[ISO]

Sounds hypocritical imo.

Also Hitmaka is just one producer and at the mainstream level of course you’re going to get cookie cutter shyt especially from Latto whose whole album had an ATL, Nunu, 00’s theme.

There are producers who sample well and flip shyt and find obscure samples. For example if we look at modern NY hip hop you listen to Pop Smoke beats on Meet the Woo, you see 808melo picked a lot of obscure samples. You see someone like Daringer also picks samples that aren’t widely known. You have someone like Cash Cobain that’s a genius at sampling.

 

[The Entity]

Hip hop has always been built on sampling

He didn't deliver it right at first - I think what he is saying, and I agree, there's a difference between taking a sample and flipping into something else - a new story. And then just lazily rapping over a used sample bc it sounds diluted. It also works more if you're incorporating a different genre for the first time, it adds to it.

Enhancing the music with audios is a lost art as well. Be complete musicians.

 

[Da Jungles]

Some of you are so damn slow