fukk outta here.
You're trying to erase 20 years of music history to make your retarded point.
Southern producers used sampling and also elevated Hip Hop production by bringing in real musicians and composing original tracks.
Southern producers were REAL musicians, not some nikkas playing around with their parents record collection and drum machines.
I wanna say that's also a west coast thing and the entirety of west coast production and how to approach Hip-Hop was shaped by
people who viewed musicians as an asset when writing records based on an acoustic art form like Funk/Soul.
It's only natural that when seeking to emulate that sound and produce unique sounding records that you'll eventually have
to get living breathing people to play over those drum sounds (or in pete rock or q-tips case you completely master
the MPC).
On topic :
I think Black Music was really hit the hardest by musical education cuts, instruments not being seen
as "cool" and the culture of "sampling" which depending on how it's approached can be completely
devoid of any skill.
You go back a couple decades and you get songs with horn and string arrangements, virtuosic drum performances,
interesting Jazz influenced harmony, harmonizing musicians, virtuosic bass playing etc. Musicianship was "normal" it
wasn't seen as people being "eclectic" or "different".
When the Ohio Players or Kool & The Gang or The Gap Band or anyone else was stringing together some frankly.
ill loops that would eventually be sampled by Hip-Hop heads it was a normal aspect of their genre, they didn't know a decade
or two later the shyt would be a literal gold mine
So yeah, I think Hip-Hop or really what proceeded it in genres like Funk, Rock, Soul and so on were hit pretty hard by shifts
in cultural attitudes I mean look at how much it's changed just in this decade.
And that isn't to say "Good" music isn't being made anymore, it's just to say that the bar has been lowered in some ways.
