Sango is a monster bruh
Is DIPLO the biggest CULTURE VULTURE to ever walk the planet?
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But you can't forget that tree
Diplo is a skilled producer, but as with most white artists doing black art, there is a fine line.
Great artists from the past have taken black art forms and repackaged them for a white audience
Led Zeppelin (thieves of artists both black and white)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (funk for white people)
Sublime (Reggae/Ska)
The Police (Reggae)
Beastie Boys
You have to consider the flip side of the coin. Diplo has introduced me to a lot of dope music. As far as I'm concerned, putting artists in mixes is shout out enough. EDIT: Profiting off of DJing is something I didn't consider. That's vultureish. Artists should be paid royalties
He's a vulture but at the same time he seems like a dude who appreciates the music as well.
People will deny it but he's a more groundbreaking producer than Sango. Some funk carioca sample with trap drums is dope, but he's a one trick pony. Diplo has a LOT of bases covered. Kaytranada is in a different lane to me. I like him a LOT though. He's got great chord progressions. Diplo's strengths are his percussion and instrument choice.
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He's a cool dude, gets a lot of hate but that comes with the territory of being a popular mainstream act. To say he doesn't put people on is a bit of a stretch tho, his radio show Diplo and Friends is one of the biggest and most downloaded on the planet and he features everyone from emerging artists (NGTMRE) to established (DJ Premier) artists from a lot of genres.
Sounds like a hustler with a good ass ear for music to me 
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For as much as he's out here and da rest of those dudes, none of which I know anything about other than name, I don't listen to none of that type of shyt.
The fact he managed to make a super group with Skrillex was an immediate sell out move. At the time skrillex was the first edm artist to break the billboard charts so ofcourse he wanted to soak in some of the magic. Also by working with justin bieber he solidified himself as a mainstream staple...
Basically what drake and travis scott does he does...
He stalks certain artists djs producers
Soaks in their style
Uses it to his advantage
Throws those acts out in the garbage like they nevwr happened.
Hell yeah.
Honestly I say this as a musician and a black person to you.Sounds like a hustler with a good ass ear for music to me
Don't you get tired of others taking the momentum and appeal from the art we make and we get nothing more than a pat on the back while others can put their kids through college with it?
I met him in 2009...he was a cool dude then.
But he is overhyped.
He's lost his touch with the hipster/indie audience that supported him into his fame explosion and they turned on him.
He's a middle aged man that plays music for tweens now. Techically as a DJ he is still amazing, but I miss the days when he called himself an artist like when Florida came out in 2004.
But you can't forget that tree
Diplo is a skilled producer, but as with most white artists doing black art, there is a fine line.
Great artists from the past have taken black art forms and repackaged them for a white audience
Led Zeppelin (thieves of artists both black and white)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (funk for white people)
Sublime (Reggae/Ska)
The Police (Reggae)
Beastie Boys
You have to consider the flip side of the coin. Diplo has introduced me to a lot of dope music. As far as I'm concerned, putting artists in mixes is shout out enough. EDIT: Profiting off of DJing is something I didn't consider. That's vultureish. Artists should be paid royalties
He's a vulture but at the same time he seems like a dude who appreciates the music as well.
People will deny it but he's a more groundbreaking producer than Sango. Some funk carioca sample with trap drums is dope, but he's a one trick pony. Diplo has a LOT of bases covered. Kaytranada is in a different lane to me. I like him a LOT though. He's got great chord progressions. Diplo's strengths are his percussion and instrument choice.
I say the same.
What made me a huge Diplo fan back in the day was around the time I started to get bored with techno/.
The in 2007, I was introduced to Mad Decent and finally got to hear his famed Lowlands 2008 set...that shyt changed my life man.
Still one of the best DJ sets I've ever heard in my existence! Made techno, house, electronic music exciting again...But that was when what people know as EDM now was just "Blog House" made by people who were really taking advantage of new internet platforms to share music and mixes. Mostly through myspace.
Infact that's who was responsible for the Justice/Diplo tour in 2008...MYSPACE.
HE managed to solidify himself in the industry and be on the verge of what'
s hot before it's hot. Mishka, Turntable labe, Apple, Serato, Interscope, Beats by Dre, BBC, all fukk with the dude and have for a while.
He's down with smaller labels like Club Cheval, Ed Banger, the former institubes records camp, Boys Noize and Boys Noize records...
Pretty much the guy can play a hip hop festival...and a rave...and a club night, and a small show...or a pool party, or a yacht party and not miss a beat because he has a vast knowledge of music.
His discography unfortunately falls flat as a solo artist after his work on Florida and on the first couple of MIA albums.
Now he seems to be unable to produce a track without 2 other people on it.
What happened?
He's also a record label,owner and a business man.
I don't see anything he's doing that is wrong. Let dude live
I mean yeah, he's been running Mad Decent with Paul Devro & DJA since 2005. I got to applaud the dude for managing to juggle running a label, djing with Major Lazer, Jack U, and still doing solo sets, touring around the world, cranking out original material while doing remixes and production work for other artists. And promoting other artists whether small or big time.
But to the the really invested fan, or former, like myself....this shyt is painfully obvious that he vultured himself to get to that spot. I'm not the only one that it kind of rubs the wrong way. How is it that somehow this guy who's managed to create this new style of mixing and acceptance of different musical styles is now one of the only to profit from it while the creators and prominent artists of those styles can't even share a tiny fraction of the same success?
People don't even want to address it which is why these criticisms end up like this. Even Diplo knows it and said in interviews that he don't like when people use the race card in regards to his music cause that goes against what he does as an artists and a musician and a producer and a DJ.
Pegasus Jackson
Trump's Amerikkka
I was gonna come in here and troll, but the OP actually knows his shyt regarding this peckerwood's co-opting of culture. 
