alright, look, your all new here so i'll cut you some slack.
BUT....
this topic has been beat to death already, countless times. i am going to merge this with another, older thread....... if i can find it!
the bottom line? you are wrong, wrong, wrong to say that a "true producer will create all his own parts" - that is a slap in the face to all the great, proven producers out here who do sample. to put limitations on something and say "if its done this way, then thats ok, but not this way..." is like saying "thats wack BECAUSE its not how i do it".
i get a lil irritated when i find a kanye west sample and its basically the same exact sample just sped up with drums- but then i have a hard time matching up drums on time with a lot of samples of the same style. its not like its that easy......
this whole debate of wether or not hip hop should be sampling, wether or not it is "theirs" or not, or "stealing" is ludicrous, because there are no limitations to how music should be made. who are we to decide how it should be made by someone else? i can only say what i prefer to do.
if you prefer to do keys, all power to you. if you prefer to loop samples and throw drums on top, hey if the end product is solid, by all means do it. the end result is all that matters. countless classics have been created by ressurecting dusty old 45's and adding a dose of drums to it... hip hop music would not be here were it not for this. plain and simple.
do what you do. if its live instrumentation, a guitar and an mpc, a triton, if its two turntables and an asr, whatever you can use to make hip hop thats what you use. we can debate this ALL DAY- we already have many times- and at the end, thats what it comes down to: you or i are nobody to determine how someone else chooses to make hip hop- we can only choose what we can do for ourselves.
