there was no one person who sold it out, execs saw that violence and d*** talk were making them $$$ so they set it as the benchmark
it devolved from there

You niggas forget people were trying to sound like eachother back then too s*** just wasn't as vast as a problem because of computers and how cheap and accessible it is to make music now compared to then. Also we forgot about a lot of them niggas.

there has always been copycats and there always will be

the cream will still come to the top

internet money the blame to this

type beats have nothing to do with the actual industry brah, only dudes like lil tecca rap over them

no s*** dre is a top 5 producer oat

Not really... The producers making type beats aren’t the ones who r popping

f*** the ogs stop d***riding geezer

musictech.net/news/library-congress-sampling-citizen-dj

tldr; the library of congress is making a royalty free sampling website

zoomers want the bag but don't wanna put the work in, nothing new here

Growth of hip hop is being stunted so go back to doing what people were doing 20 years ago instead of letting it naturally progress brehs

All it did was codify something already understood — certain rappers sound good on certain beats.

I automatically assume you're 13 or something.

People need to just stop copying drums and move on