Quote:
Originally Posted by Far-L
You make reasonable counterpoints, but allow me to rebuttal...
Google Kanye cover tune rip offs. No more needs be said.
As for the Dead, while I love their takes on covers as much as I say any rapper/producer should be able to sample whatever they like to create their own artistic license of what came before, I don't judge them by those arrangements of standards as much as by the new songs they wrote that are singular and unique and part of a present, past, and future since they are unique. Regardless though, I am not against borrowing, breaking, taking what came before to make now and forever.
My best friend made an album often referred to as "the Sargent Peppers of hip hop" and on many top album of all time lists, "Paul's Boutique". by the Beastie Boys. They used an insane amount of samples since it was done in a time when obtaining rights was like getting the rights to upload studio produced content on Pornhub. The joy of that album is how much they used what came before to create something that was part of the future. The difference is the samples were layered in a fashion that created something original while Kanye gets called out constantly for just rapping over hooks, lines, and sinkers from other songs.
|
I googled it verbatim and all I found was something about how he ripped off some guy named Aphex Twin on one of his songs. Big deal. Did you actually Google it yourself or did you just assume that the results would support your preconceived stereotype?
Paul's Boutique is one of my favorite albums of all time. I pretty much wore the tape out listening to it again and again and again when it was released. When I bought a record player a few years ago, I immediately bought 10-15 albums. Paul's Boutique was one of them along with Abbey Road, The White Album, Exile On Main Street, Enter The Wu Tang, A Low End Theory by Tribe Called Quest, Rumours by Fleetwood Mac, The Bends and Kid A by Radiohead, Back To Black by Amy Winehouse, Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads, Superfly, a few others, and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West. I listened all of them repeatedly until going to buy my next batch a couple months later. In terms of quality, there was no drop off when listening to Twisted Fantasy. It fit right in with the others and much like Pauls Boutique, it was not a commercial success when it was released and it gets better with time.
Also, on Yeezus, Kanye brought in a lot of producers to make it where it was more of a collaborative effort than he had in the past. Rick Rubin, who produced the first Beastie Boys album, was there as was Rza.
Kanye is not just 'another rapper', he is a musician and a damn good one at that.