Think about the fact fact that Pete Rock probably listened to hundreds of hours of music before hitting that 3-5 second snippet. It's an amazing riff that just happens to be in the middle of a sax solo that I originally thought was really derivative and boring. Does it sound like, even resemble something that could become hip-hop? It sounds like something I should listen to while discussing how much corporations suck while smoking a joint with some long-haired dudes in tie-die, downing some organic grass drink that tastes like organic grass.īut sure enough, it's the song "T.R.O.Y" is taken from. It's the type of thing that would seemingly have no ability to resonate with me, or, for that matter, a 20-year old black dude Mount Vernon in the 1990's. Sounds, well, kinda awful, doesn't it? The first time I heard it, I couldn't listen to it all the way through, because I was struck with how awful, drab, and boring it is. It's a weird hippie jazz record made by a 1960's saxophonist whose most-known work is the theme song to the TV show "Starsky and Hutch". The song above is "Today" by Tom Scott and the California Dreamers. Listen to the first 15 seconds of the song below: And I've never heard a song that does it better or more beautifully than "T.R.O.Y."
Producers who take sampling seriously - who dig through crates of records searching for that perfect eight-second thing that sounds like it could be made into something catchy in old soul records - aren't jacking sound, they're respecting their elders, paying homage to their predecessors by bringing new context to the old music they created, reinventing it, spinning what they had in a new, occasionally amazing light. But that's a disturbingly simplistic viewpoint to take. Yes, it is about taking music other people made and making money of making new music. And all this reinforces the concept that rap is an unthoughtful music that embraces unoriginality
I can see how they got this idea: that Jason DeRulo song that came directly from that weird vocal thing, Kanye straight up jacking Daft Punk - kinda surprising stuff from a really great producer - that christ-awful Forever Young song that Jay-Z managed to make into a single last year even though it was literally the most depressing thing I've ever heard. People think sampling is just taking somebody else's work and stealing it so you can make a new song. There's a lot of horrible misconceptions I hear about rap music, and one of the least offensive, but most incorrect, is with regards to the concept of sampling. It's possibly my favorite hip-hop song of all time. The new title comes from a song by Pete Rock and CL Smooth, which you might know as "the title song from NBA Street Vol. Well, school years over, so, here goes.This isn't my best work, but it has a site-related hook: Last year, I ran a series of posts entitled "Sayin' Goodbye Like Tevin Campbell" about departed NU athletes.This year, that series will have a new name: "T.R.O.Y."
I took you seriously on the second front, bringing on Herman as a lax-focused writer, and covered that national championship run a bit, but I haven't had time to bang out a hip-hop essay yet. The answers were varied, but the most popular response was "write a lot about hip-hop." I'm not sure if you were joking. A few months ago, I asked you guys what you wanted from my site when sports was over.
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