Skits should always be separate from songs

[winb83]

Not a fan of them being stuck at the beginning of a song. When albums started coming on CDs instead of tapes this practice should have been put to bed. You go to listen to “Kick in the Door” and it’s a full minute plus long skit attached to the song. Should have had it’s own track number.

 

[Yinny]

I agree literally my least favorite part of an album. Lucky for Late Registration we entered the streaming era pretty soon after bc the skits were awful esp for a great piece.

 

[beenz]

With mp3's it's easy to edit the song to omit or skip that nonsense at least.

 

[Nostalgic]

In the cassette era I can understand this argument. We're in the digital streaming era this argument really doesn't hold much weight you can pretty much just skip ahead of the skit and get right to the song.

 

[Ripp]

*phone rings*

"Who dikk you sucking?"

Gotta be hands down the worst pre song skit of all time... its hilarious and a classic at this point But it was annoying af tryna listen to Hows it going down

 

[JustCKing]

Kendrick's GKMC is the worst offender. It wouldn't be so bad, but some of the songs are long and then the skits make them even longer.

 

[winb83]

With mp3's it's easy to edit the song to omit or skip that nonsense at least.

Yes you can skip it but Spotify doesn’t have a Kick in the Door version without the skit. Every time you listen to songs like this on streaming you have to scrub to the music portion.

On iTunes you could set the MP3 file to begin at a certain time. I miss that.

 

[DapMeUp!]

Tbh I don't mind them at the end of a song...actually is you are going to do them that's where they should be leading into the next song.

Least that way you can skip it if you don't want to hear it.

 

[My Girl is Bow Legged]

shyt makes it annoying af to listen to the original biggie one more chance. over a full minute of stupid ass voicemails I gotta skip through every time

 

[Somebody]

Drake tried his best to ruin Daylight putting his son on the end. Track was Mob Ties part 2 until that nonsense got tacked on.

Also, beat switches. Just make it a next song. They never work.

 

[boogers]

i guess it depends on the artists vision

a great example would be the difference between the album version of "Stress" by organized konfusion, and the music video version. the studio version has a minute long skit IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SONG between Po and Monch's verses!

the video version is better imo

 

[Playaz Eyez]

In the cassette era I can understand this argument. We're in the digital streaming era this argument really doesn't hold much weight you can pretty much just skip ahead of the skit and get right to the song.

The whole point is you shouldn’t have to skip Think about you putting a 20 song playlist together and 7 songs have a 1:30 skit at the beginning or tacked on to the end

 

[nieman]

Skits enhance albums. They give albums life and personality. Of course, not every skit is going to work, but overall they're present for a reason. I don't know if they work better in the beginning or at the end. There are times I want to listen to a song with the lead-in skit, but it was placed at the end of the previous song, and there are times when the skit is placed at the beginning of the song, but actually close off the previous. And if they're separate, you still have to skip if you don't want to hear it (or compile a playlist without the skit).

It pretty much comes down to listener preference, but if they surveyed, it would prob be split.

 

[Meowth tote da Uzi]

This thread reminds me of why i stopped listening to Wiz Khalifa. His mixtape Taylor Allderdice didn't have skits but like some broken up interview sprinkled at the end of some of them. At the end of one of the songs hes giving an answer to something and burps loud af and im listening like why these nikkas aint edit this shyt out. Aint nobody cool enough for me to listen to them burp on a track.

 

[C-Styles]

Drake tried his best to ruin Daylight putting his son on the end. Track was Mob Ties part 2 until that nonsense got tacked on.

Also, beat switches. Just make it a next song. They never work.

you trippin, "beat switches" was always a part of a song structure since back in the day on other genres. It should def be in hip hop, how you gon be listening to the same loop for 3 minutes? It enhances the song if you have a REAL PRODUCER, not just a "beat maker"