As a producer who has been around for decades, Ski Beatz is an artist who is quite familiar with the various trends in Hip Hop. The producer recently spoke on the latest musical trend in Hip Hop, which happens to be creating tracks reminiscent of a 90’s sound, in his interview with PlanetIll.com.
In the interview Ski Beatz explained that 90’s music was inspired by the 70’s and that music now is beginning to sound more and more like songs from the 90’s.
“Camp Lo is a perfect example of that sound. The 90’s is like the 70’s now,” Ski Beatz explained to PlanetIll.com. “You know what I mean? A lot of [people are] getting hip to that 90’s sound. I just came back from Paris yesterday and all they wanted to hear, they didn’t want to hear anything that was on the radio, all they wanted to hear me spin was all 1990’s music. You would’ve swore I was Kid Capri in Paris.”
At one point in his career Ski Beatz took a break from sampling and instead utilized a live band, he explained his reasoning behind that choice during the interview.
“Well, the original reason was we [had] an independent label and I was doing like a lot of sampling when I first hooked back up with Dame and he was like ‘Yo, we independent. We not gonna be able to clear the samples. We ain’t got no budget for this.’ So I said ‘Yo, we’ll just replay them.’ We’ll find some musicians and we’ll replay it,” said Ski. “But we took it a step further we got the musicians but turned the musicians into our band, our in-house band.”
While Ski Beatz is most well-known for his production talent he revealed that he might return to the mic for his next project, Karate School Part 3.
“I might do something later. I think on this Karate School Part 3 I might do a feature on a track with somebody, it all depends. [I’ve been] rhyming lately so I might do it…That’s my first love I gotta do it,” he explained.
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i have a special respect level for producers that dont sample
Im sorry but hip hop was built on samples and that foundation is gone now. Thats why hiphop is dead. Artist used the live band to make rap less threatn. Now shht sounding too fukn artsy popsy. 1 dj + 1 rapper + 2 dancers = dopeness
70’s artist sampled other musicians too don’t get it twisted well known fact is that the JB’s The Grunt which many artists used such as PE Rakim ect. sampled Isley Bros. “Keep on doin” and also then artists used to remake songs like nothing but since hip hop came into the picture there’s a problem 70’s artists wanted to get paid for their stuff do your research and youll see every artist did remakes even when diana ross and marvin gaye did album they remade some stylistics songs
Sampling and crate digging is hip hop.
Get this bullshit out of here.
he said the MAIN REASON for stop sampling is cause him & dame DONT HAVE THE BUDGET TO CLEAR THE SAMPLES! Unless they have the intent to put the records (that are sampled from another record) out for FREE, muthafuckas will sue yo ass if u are unable to clear the shit…dumbass!
Mr Flamboyant is the biggest dumb fuck on this site.
Lets not start the whole sampling vs not sampling bullshit. All that shit is an element in hip hop. ALL OF IT. You wouldnt know what to sound like using a live band WITHOUT sampling! Sampling was OUR new technology back then man!! when the TR 808/909 came out the Mirage MPC 60 or sp1200 that shit DEFINED the sound of hip hop! Certain niggas had it cause only certain niggas could afford it. WITHOUT those drum machines/samplers there wouldnt be “rap music” sound. Period. HIP HOP IS A CULTURE. That 808 drum kit being over used is as much hip hop as a JBs drumbreak. Thats why its so generic now. You cant speak on hip hop in 2011 & the 70s/80s like they are the same thing though. Poverty was different, society was different, the mentality was different, the drive was different. The actual culture was being born man! You guys nowadays got heavy opinions and dont have to be on the front lines going all out for the culture. For anything really… Back then you was either down or you wasnt. We were allowed to like EVERYTHING cause we werent in a trance like you guys nowadays. your taught that you cant like him cause his age or that cause its a sample or him cause hes from NY…thats bullshit. there was nobody brainwashing us into thinking we werent allowed to like the geto boys 2 live crew DOC and The juice Crew all at once…how do you think those guys became legends? wasnt because each coast was fuckin segregated thats for sure! I really think saying you hate sampling is like saying you hate NY cause that seems to be an online trend…go against anything NY related…#HATING101
good arguement…..but what good will sampling do for producers like ski (as he explained why he stopped sampling)if they cant clear them???
I respect people like The Roots who play their own music but sampling= Hip-Hop… if it wasnt for sampling there would prolly be no Hip-Hop
yo are u guys serious?? did u even read his reason to stop sampling?? he isnt against sampling, hes saying, and pay good attention to this detail, THEY CANT CLEAR THEM! if u cant clear them, ppl will sue you for using their record (case & point: years back, dr. dre got in trouble over the use of the THX-trademarked “Deep Note” that was used on the intro to the 2001 album. The Fatback Band also sued him over alleged infringement regarding its song “Backstrokin'” in his song “Let’s Get High” from the 2001 album. Dre was ordered to pay $1.5 million to the band in 2003. Another example, Dj Premier had to use a different sample on mos def’s “mathematics” cause the original sampled intended did not clear. Understand the problem u can run into just sampling any record at any time? Hell, thats probably one of the reasons big krit put out return of 4eva for free rather than selling it.
Also, there’s nothing wrong w/ producers using live instrumentation to make their beats when done right, which ski does very well.
Duh! my point was why people want to start not letting artists sample when hiphop started doing it that was my point now you have to clear it when back in the day you can rip off almost the whole song even remake it an didn’t have to clear nothing i can care less about what ski does thats him he still make good beats its just that people need to hear that point that sampling been going on way before hiphop thats all i was trying to say
Ski should rap more often like Pete rock, large pro, alchemist and Dre it really does help cement the work. Hell even Madlib and J.dilla were spiting on their own shit at some point.