John Legend - "kanye doesnt make beats anymore"- Breakfast CLub Interview *Video*
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I've always hated the very narrow definition that hip hop has of what a producer is.
Anybody that listens to other genres knows that a producer is more like a director of a movie overseeing and guiding everything .He may not play every insturment or program every drum but best believe NOTHING makes it out of the studio he didn't influence or direct.
A producer is more than just a dude sitting with a beat machine/computer all day cranking out beats (not actual songs).
I understand that's in hip hops roots, but as the music expands especially with an artist like a kanye you can't expect him to be taping on a Mpc all day like this is 2001 or something .
He gives credit to everyone he works with and ain't tryin to hide nothing.
Anybody that listens to other genres knows that a producer is more like a director of a movie overseeing and guiding everything .He may not play every insturment or program every drum but best believe NOTHING makes it out of the studio he didn't influence or direct.
A producer is more than just a dude sitting with a beat machine/computer all day cranking out beats (not actual songs).
I understand that's in hip hops roots, but as the music expands especially with an artist like a kanye you can't expect him to be taping on a Mpc all day like this is 2001 or something .
He gives credit to everyone he works with and ain't tryin to hide nothing.
naw you are right.. I mean most REAL producers in music used musicians anyway. So the essence is in what you're saying
however, what most peeps liked about Kanye was the fact we bought in to the fact that this guy sat and made beats (regardless of who assisted) and that this guy could rap. It seems as the years have passed, he's become less of both
KingOFKings
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The key thing that he said in that, and he said it very quickly and in a sly way............so I'm not surprised most people didn't catch it.
"he wants to draw from other people's energy"
"he wants to draw from other people's energy"
At this point, he's just Karl Lagerfeld behind a console 
timbaland is worst
he puts his name on other people's beat
danja was doing alot of his shyt
Rapmastermind
Superstar
There's nothing wrong with collaboration with other producers to make great music. Making music is a team work thing after all. But as a Die hard KanYe fan, I'm a little disappointed in him by not making that many beats anymore. The old Kanye made beats, they came from his mind. This is why "College Dropout" is still his best album. That was KanYe, he produced all those beats by himself. He only had a co-producer on 1 song, "Breathe in Breathe out" As each album came out, he slowly started using more and more co-producers. KanYe is a living Legend but I can't put him over Premo, RZA, Pete or Dre as a producer.
Bashing Kanye still didn't Obama brownie points from repubs
The majority of these big time producers don't make beats from scratch.They get Beatmakers to send them in raw Instrumentals and they mix and finish them.
KAWS
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Bashing Kanye still didn't Obama brownie points from repubs
pretty sure that wasn't his goal...he called Kanye a jackass because Kanye IS a jackass.
but he mostly makes good music so
