J Dilla vs Madlib

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This right here.

I've been a fan of Madlib since the early Lootpack days, but he's nowhere near in the same league as Dilla.

That's just two different levels of production. One of my boys found all the samples to Madvillany and remade the beats, just for fun. You could barely tell the difference between his and Lib's. Ain't nobody gonna be able to remake any of Dilla's sh*t. Dude was way too prolific. You could have all the records and drum sounds he used for a beat, and you still won't be able to do it like he did it. You can't recapture the feeling. He was too soulful with it.

When you hear legendary producers speak on Dilla, you hear how much of a genius that dude was. Or if you've ever made beats, you can hear how intricate he was with chopping and even just with his drum programming. We'll never see another producer like him again. The real heads spoke on this way before his death. He was that special out the gate.
actually Dilla's stuff can be remade too. the entire Donuts album has been remade on youtube by several different channels doing a song or 2. As intriticate as some of it is, It's not really the rocket science questlove makes it out to be. Some of Dilla's stuff has musicians like James Poyser playing over it. So it would be impossible to completely remake it over in an mpc or even in a computer program. The same can be said for for the Shades of Blue album that's similar to Bomb Squad production with all of the separate samples for each track. I remember after Dilla's death, 9th Wonder credited Dilla for using claps in hip hop beats :laugh: . The guy was great, but statements like that are insane especially since Larry Smith was doing it in the early 80s and even one of Kool G Rap's hardest tracks, "it's a shame", has claps instead of snares.
 

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Dilla really did have a soothing vibe to his production. Perfect for just chillin' and zoning out to. I love his sh*t from '95-'99. That sound he perfected with Tip was something else! Mad classic. A lot of the demo beats on that '96 tape ended up on this too:



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i aint even know this happened.. because of b high giving copy dilla beat cd's
 
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