User:Pointyfingers
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[edit] .this is kinda what i'm tryna do now
(this is the same post as the one i posted on the illmatic, and stillmatic articles)
In both articles, Illmatic and Stillmatic, i labeled each track with its corresponding producer because solo hip hop artists almost always use tracks from producers other than the one executive producing their album. Even an album produced by a famous producer will often feature tracks from others or the artists themselves (Eminem’s Slim Shady LP, Obie Trice's Cheers with Em exec. producing, Gorrilaz which features Danger Mouse production in one of their tracks), unless the artist/producer collaboration states otherwise (Hi-Tek and Talib Kweli’s Reflection Eternal or Blueprint and RJD2 as Soul Position, Beatnuts, or Wu-Tang with Rza). The majority of hip hop artists, however, remain solo acts that strive to gather instrumentals from one side of the industry to the other. Because of this, I don’t think the standard album infobox template is efficient at describing the details of a hip hop album. (Perhaps each integral genre of music should have a slightly different template.)
I suggest that only the executive and co-executive producer be named under producer in the album template and each track be labeled with its producer, i.e. (prd. …) or (produced by …). (but i'll wait for feedback before i do more of this)
Production is important. It lets you see who did what, how their music evolves and relates to other things they produced. Kanye West is a perfect example, he did talib’s “get by” mobb deep’s “throw your hands up” and used excerpts from both those previous recording to make john legends “I used to love you” and talib’s “I try.” Knowing details like that (and I think most people did) almost bridge songs to each other, and it certainly paints a portrait of kanye’s style, for those interested in this kinda shit anyway.
from the begining nas has been good at choosing his beats this way, as he says, "to brigde the gap," and here it shows. Large Professor sampled a Lillian armstrong piece, and trackmasters a brit pop band. --Pointyfingers 17:33, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] .these words are beautiful
- "Critique of Culture Jamming" 03:14, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
