Ludacris (Ye) "Stand Up" sample

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Yall gonna go crazy when you hear what RZA, Dilla, Madlib, etc were doing

I think it's cool to let people just appreciate what one producer was/is doing, without the need to compare them to other dudes. That's weird.

And Madlib is notoriously known for not chopping. He said he's mostly into just looping. A lot of his samples are basically just loops, with drums or breaks thrown on top.
 

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nikka Kanye could chop a sample like this in 2025 with a blindfold on :mjlol: y'all can't be serious. Doing stuff like that is just boring to him after 30+ years. Everyone doesn't just sit on one skill for their entire lives, once they master it, they may just move on to some other shyt to recreate the challenge of it. He still can flip samples at a high clip of he wanted to.


Same exact thing with Andre 3k literally saying he got bored with rap and moved onto instruments, idk why y'all can't wrap your brains around the concept of someone wanting a challenge instead of doing some shyt they already perfected :dead: it's the same as perfecting a video game and just moving on from it.
Nah Andre 3k scared
 

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Not that complex of a flip but I always thought this was one of Kanye’s most underrated beats
 

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There was nothing "standard" about this flip at all. "Standard" are these basic loops that you real hip hop heads let Alchemist get away with nowadays

Ye was at his peak during this period, loved how he was taking small chops and seamlessly weaving them into entirely new melodies as he did on this, "Lucifer" and "Encore"—you guys are setting an extraordinarily high standard if you think the approach to making those beats is basic
 
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Say what y’all want about Kanye but he’s arguably the Vincent Van Gogh of Hip Hop. :yeshrug:

He has the best ears for sample selections (no pun intended).
I was listening to Kanye today.. because I was listening to pusha t top songs on Apple Music…. He might be one my top prod overall in hip hop
 

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Kanye was a great producer around that time. Not sure if he chopped this himself but he went stupid if true.

His work on Daytona is also slept on. nikka need to go back to making his own beats but at this point it's too late, I won't listen to his shyt.
 

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This was a good find but like people said, the shyt Havoc and RZA were doing would blow yall minds
 

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Say what y’all want about Kanye but he’s arguably the Vincent Van Gogh of Hip Hop. :yeshrug:

He has the best ears for sample selections (no pun intended).
Not really. He had a whole team of sample diggers and producers by the second album. The idea that he was sourcing all these samples and producing alone is obsolete post college drop out. No he does not have the best ear. He had the best team. Of writers producers musicians differs DJs. You name it.

Kanye is a corporation and has been for 95% of his career

John Brion on late registration. And Mike Dean from Graduation onward. All the production camps and the guest producers like Pete and RZA also gifted him samples if not beats.
 
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