It’s his fukking song nikka ... with his production .... “buhh buhhh buhh i don’t know it so it don’t count towards his style only the most popular ones do”
Credit whoever you need to doesn’t really matter ...it’s dated and sounds like nothing that is modern
Also Rodney Jerkins was doing similar shyt with his drums around the same time
There are common sounds and production techniques also that define eras musically ...this is obviously obvious ... just like right now producers are on the rythmic 808 wave ... sped up samples were a wave at one point ... double time drums were a wave at one point ... heavy sythizers were a wave at one point etc etc .... if you don’t want to acknowledge that certain sounds are ascribed to certain eras the premise of this thread and you trying to argue one guy as being “more modern” than the other guy is pretty dumb and baseless as it would mean that any song from any era could double as modern and has no sonic watermarks that date its origin ...
We know this is not the case ... and I can prove it by watching you try to explain why track X or track Y sounds less or more modern than something new out today ...don’t see what you are having difficulty comprehending here honestly