Producer Remixes...what happened to them?

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I am a man of a certain age and I remember back in the day when producers would put out remixes. A song would come out and instead of wack rapper putting wacker remixes to the wack song it was to begin with, producers were the ones that were doing the remixes of songs and putting new beats to the lyrics.

Take this gem for example...



and by way of remix we have...



Now, this type of thing used to be my schitt. Does this still go on? I can't find them if they do.
 
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not really, todays remix is adding verses to the og song. theres so many fewer releases, and fewer opps for certain producers, that they are holding onto that beat for a new track because the label is not worried about a remixed beat. if they are putting money into a single its for added features the og beat is already considered part of the investment
 
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that shut em down remix is probably one of the best remix ever.
 
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SoulController said:
not really, todays remix is adding verses to the og song. theres so many fewer releases, and fewer opps for certain producers, that they are holding onto that beat for a new track because the label is not worried about a remixed beat. if they are putting money into a single its for added features the og beat is already considered part of the investment
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That makes sense from a label perspective. If you got a hot beat it is probably better to sit on it until you find the lyrics that would go off to it. But lets be reality. These cats aren't really saying anything worth saving a hot beat for so why not let these producers get at each other on the beats. This was the area where producers would get at each other by taking someone's song and making a better beat for it. I mean, there were some straight classics that were the result of producer remixes. Its bad enough every rapper sounds like one of a handful of people but the producers all sound the same as well. Maybe remixing a hot song is where one of these lesser knowns can break into the game with a banger of a remix doing music how they would do it.
 
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