Say It Ain’t So
June 27th, 2009When I was a wee lad in high school I used to make Hip Hop mixtapes, rap, and try to make beats. Now this was late nineties before Garageband and FruityLoops got big. Hell, beat sequences looked like Atari programs and you would need a MIT degree in mathematics to work them.
I would use Cool Edit which turned into Adobe Audition and just sampled bits and pieces from songs and sequence them using some freeware 4-track app. I started to make some decent sounding beats but then got fed up with my lack of real musical talent and ended up giving up and deleting all my music.
Anyways, recently I have been realizing that big time producers barely have any real skill or musical talent either. They’re just creative and have a good ear. I’ve been reading up on one of my favorite producers, Polow Da Don.
Both of my favorite Polow Da Don beats were made using the default, stock, sample sythn sounds that come with programs to demo what they do. That’s fucking insane!
I got that shit in Garageband!! How come I’m not a multi-million dollar producer?! Oh yeah, I’m a lazy quitter who can’t swallow his pride.
Jeez, I mean P. Diddy had to at least pay a lot of money and clear the rights to sample other people’s music. Polow Da Don used a fucking free handmeout from Apple Computers!!
Well whatever that’s just one Polow Da Don track. I mean, it’s not like he’s lazy on all his smash hit singles, right? Aw fuck. Some lame Hungarian rapper exposed THE FUCKING NAS HERO TRACK:
What the fuck, man. I thought you were a genius. I don’t know -you can’t go so hard on these guys. It’s not like kids are bumping this shit off the radio, in their daddy’s car, give a flying fuck how much effort some pot head producer put into his beat. You can still rub up on a chick at the club to it. People like catchy, dumbass shit like Souljah Boy HOOOOOOOO!
It’s just like anything else. Once you know how it’s done it loses it’s magic but then again you want to be able to appreciate the craft when you listen to something. I guess I can appreciate the fact people can hustle their way through without doing hard work.





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