Wednesday, January 21, 2009
You know what I miss yo!?
I miss simply working in the lab with emcees that know how to make a song and have some musical inclination to create more of a session atmosphere. I be feeling mad distant making beats and sending off thru the email to receive a song back...on some ebay/amazon order type shit. What happened to having demo sessions with people whom you jell with and actually come up with something reasonably dope the very day of conceptualizing a song? Does this kind of song making behavior exist in hip hop anymore or are we just sending shit thru gmail?
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I HEAR THAT LIKE A MOTHERFUCKA!!!! As frustrated as various folks have made me at times, I really miss being in a room with heads...creating. Or knowing I could call such-and-such up and say "hey let's knock out a joint today." Hell if I lived in Philly we could knock out our Jaylib-style EP real quick like...but hell Jaylib was done entirely sending stuff back and forth...has it really become a Gmail world??? lol
I feel technology has changed the game in many levels. It has evolved into a different beast. Evolution at hand homie. It used to be such a event to go lay a actual song down in a real studio. Now real studios are pretty much nostalgia/traditional for most acts. It makes me think how many years will it be until the newer generations of djs/beatmakers, move beyond the hunt for digging records. Just to purely e-dig and produce. Information/processes are out now concerning techniques applied to beats and dj. Use to be for cats like us to come up, we had to trial and error and take on a mentor ship from a elder dj/digger/mc. Now there are books, youtube vids and dvds that crash course beginners like never before. Its all technology in one way or another. FASTER, HARDER, STRONGER.
A large number of people hate on how the game has changed but realistically, you simply can't. Things always change but still stay the same!
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