What was up with 2000’s R&B singers using the same beat over different songs?

[EastsideRio]

What was up with 2000’s R&B singers using the same beat over different songs?

Montell - Get It On Tonite (9/28/1999) Prod. by Brian "Lilz" Palmer and Sergio "PLX" Moore


Da Brat, Tyrese - What’chu Like (12/21/1999) Prod. by Jermaine Dupri & Brian-Michael Cox


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Next - Wifey (5/8/2000) Prod. by Berkeley & KayGee


Jahiem - Just in Case (3/13/2001) Prod. by Berkeley & KayGee


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Monica - So Gone (4/8/2003) Prod. by Missy Elliot/Spike & Jamahl


213 - So Fly (5/6/2004) Prod. by Missy Elliot/Spike & Jamahl


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Rick Ross, Nelly - Here I Am (3/25/2008) Prod. by Drumma Boy


Raheem DeVaughan - I Don’t Care (1/25/2010) Prod. by Ne-Yo

 

[Noriega]

No different than dancehall or reggaeton artists back then making 60 songs over one riddim

 

[Novembruh]

A genre of music from a certain era has similar chord progressions and tended to mimic the sound that was at the top at the time
News at 10

We gon act like half the trap songs from the last 5 years don't sound like either Metro or the nikka in Metro's shadow

 

[maxamusa]

cause those riddims h hard

 

[EastsideRio]

A genre of music from a certain era has similar chord progressions and tended to mimic the sound that was at the top at the time
News at 10

We gon act like half the trap songs from the last 5 years don't sound like either Metro or the nikka in Metro's shadow

No, you talking same rhythm. I’m talking about the same exact beat. Bar for bar.

 

[Ol’Otis]

D’Angelo would never

 

[JealousOnesEn_V]

No, you talking same rhythm. I’m talking about the same exact beat. Bar for bar.

So fly samples So gone, outside of that the rest of those songs aren’t the “same exact beat”.

 

[jensyao]

I could have swore 'so fly' was on a mixtape where 213 was jacking for beats like gunit mixtapes but given how buzzworthy the song was, they put it on the album, similar to when Lloyd banks blacked out on his victory freestyle where it was longer and puff made victory 2004 an official release off the strength of mixtapes

 

[Novembruh]

Folk forget how production was back then too.
Unless you were musically trained/had instrumentation available to you, most people were working off of default sound assets from their equipment. Combine the same source of your sounds with a copycat industry where people want 'something like' the thing that's hot and you end up like this.
The top and bottom pair aren't the same beats at all, but they have the same sound/vibe and chord progressions leading to and from the hooks, so they hold the same beat cadence.
But that was true for most producers back then that weren't sampling.

Technically, I think you can take any Lil Jon song that got burn back then, and put the vocals to any other of his songs over it and it'll work. Because he had a style and that came with tendencies.

 

[darealvelle]

The Montell Jordan and Da brat songs are not the same beat. Just uses the same sample

 

[PoPimp84]

Double

 

[Dynamite James]

What was up with 2000’s R&B singers using the same beat over different songs?

Montell - Get It On Tonite (9/28/1999) Prod. by Brian "Lilz" Palmer and Sergio "PLX" Moore


Da Brat, Tyrese - What’chu Like (12/21/1999) Prod. by Jermaine Dupri & Brian-Michael Cox


>>>>>>>>

Next - Wifey (5/8/2000) Prod. by Berkeley & KayGee


Jahiem - Just in Case (3/13/2001) Prod. by Berkeley & KayGee


>>>>>>>>

Monica - So Gone (4/8/2003) Prod. by Missy Elliot/Spike & Jamahl


213 - So Fly (5/6/2004) Prod. by Missy Elliot/Spike & Jamahl


>>>>>>>>

Rick Ross, Nelly - Here I Am (3/25/2008) Prod. by Drumma Boy


Raheem DeVaughan - I Don’t Care (1/25/2010) Prod. by Ne-Yo

RL from next wrote and produced a lot of Jaheim’s hits. That’s whit it sounds similar to wifey

 

[PoPimp84]

This shyt ain’t new and is not limited to 2000s era r&b






Both released in 1975

 

[ThirdAct]

It's a marketing tactic. People hear something that sounds vaguely familiar to something they already know and like, then maybe they'll make the other song a hit too.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Most of your examples are a r&b song and then a beat (mainly sample) being reused for rap - not uncommon.

And the two r&b songs came from the same camp/producers.

Also wasn’t just a 2000’s thing