Is Ayo technology the most ahead of it's time beat?

[Fanservice]

 

[Duke Dixon]

This

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Neg

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

 

[Duke Dixon]

For the heads actually



The thing that makes this beat stand out has been replicated many times over the years. Maybe a good YouTube video would be songs that easily influenced ones in the future. Theres no way this song aint influence Shook Ones Part 2 or Jeezy Get Ya Mind Right. Theres more if I think about it.

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

don't even remember what this sounded like, i'll give it a listen now

 

[L $ C]

I could name a lot of timbo productions I liked more, but its an ok song

 

[M4T]

I never noticed this until now

 

[Duke Dixon]

Aight heads I got another one for you cause I heard this song on the radio and it reminded me of something I forgot to ask when So Be it came out.

Was The Beastie Boy's Paul Revere the first song to have a reverse 808?

Listen to the song if you don't know what I mean



Then listen to any of these

 

[joaoreis]

Timbaland got two beats that I feel more futuristic, both from that same era of ayo technology :



And

 

[Duke Dixon]

If you just want to stick with Timbaland I think his most ahead of the time beat is

Big Pimpin with Jay Z.



It created a few more Indian Wave(?) rap beats that Jay Z rapped on




There is also this Timbo did with Missy


Timbaland also went on to do another Indian type song himself


This song was a hit as well


Some weren't



There's more Indian rap songs but Big Pimpin created an Indian wave of beats in Hip Hop.

 

[M4T]

The beat was pretty in line for what Timbaland was doing around that time, of 2006/2007, like the Nelly Furtado hits, they sound like that.

Where it sounds ahead of its time, is in the using technology for sex. Look at us now with texting, emojis, and videos, and OnlyFans, ChatBots.

This was when it was over for 50. I tried to like this too. This was back when labels could still kinda force a song to be a hit, they were still using that old formula. Big feature, flashy video, sex. It just wouldn't go. They tried to bring in RobinThicke and that didn't work either. 50 and Interscope threw it all to push Curtis and it just didn't work. End of the era. What a summer though, lots of fire that year. I bought both these albums same day, it was a major event in hip hop at the time. Curtis had maybe 3 good songs. It was more subtle than a train wreck, but in real time, bit by bit, you saw the 50 era closeout that September.

Someone like me, who grew up on 50's music, knew about him in 1998/1999, realized Graduation was just the better album.

50 put a lot of great songs in 2010-2014 ,but he shytted on Jimmy iovine so they didn't get a push. Okay, you're right and we up definitely should of been bigger especially with his flow on those. But he still had great mixtape cuts like "complicated" that sounded like prime 50. He was mostly putting his best stuff out for free to promote his headphones and that's what he really fukked him, musically he was only off his game on Curtis and like half of bisd. I do think he halfed assed the verses on ayo technology.

 

[summwunn]

This song is a Chaka Khan sample you fukking dork - what black person doesn't like this music?

Black people inspired these french dudes so much they dedicated their entire lives to making music like them - and someone one the internet decides it's white music go roll in the fukking dirt you ass

. . . . so now when a white producer samples a Black recording-artist . .. the finished product is automatically considered "Black Music" ?!?!!! . . . . i was out and about in the middle of the night in the 90s when Daft Punk / Stardust / Thomas Bangalter started hittin the mainstream and none of that shyt was getting played anywhere but spots that had rhtyhm-less dancers, zombied-out trannies, and androgynous weirdos staring into space . .. . they wasnt playin no Stardust at the Tunnel on Sundays . .. . i also never heard nobody in any of my circles use the word "dork" ever . . . .. and i never used the word "white" in my post . . . .so something must of triggered you deep down . .. . not my problem . .. . not my fault . . .. .

 

[JustCKing]

"AYO Technology" is actually a nice beat. It didn't fit 50 Cent though. Only rapper that should've touched this beat is T.I. Other than him, OutKast is the only other choice that makes sense.

It actually would've done more for T.I. to have this on T.I. vs. T.I.P.

 

[JustCKing]

It still boggles my mind why 50 didn't keep this on the album:



^^^ this was more in his style. Timbaland & Danja also produced this song.