Montreal producer Nicholas Craven, known for his clean, melodic beats with artists like Boldy James, urged others to ditch low-quality YouTube samples for better sound. Others pushed back, with Q NO RAP NAME calling it a natural generational shift since vinyl defined past eras and YouTube defines theirs now. Producers like SWARVY pointed to Madlib's own iPad and YouTube habits amid high record prices, while Spanish Ran suggested skilled mixing can blend both sources seamlessly. The talk highlights how tech and costs are shifting hip-hop production, with no side claiming victory yet.

Source for all the chiming in :

Producers are using ai vocal chops now. I agree, we have a responsibility to keep music authentic and soulful

I don’t think craven really believes that

Nigga got ratio’d

Hes annoying as f***, hes always tweeting some s*** like this. I dont even really feel a particular way about this tweet but im tired of him acting like hes a rule maker within rap

He acts like someone left him in charge, white people can’t help but be controlling & over bearing even when its something thats not theirs lol

how u sound hwhitey

Lol

dong bring madlib into this bro had half a ton of vinyl in his crib, this ipad argument is corny with regards to him. he can do whatever the f*** he wants because its madlib, diff rules apply

it’s a fact that processed samples from YouTube sound like s*** it’s not really snobbery

with that being said get it how you live it’s an engineers job to figure it out

I also agree with that last tweet lol

no one's talking about OP using an ai summary?

S is testing out ai users again

I'm mainly interested in what the rapper is doing. Will leave this one for the bedroom producers to fight about. You're not clearing that s*** either way. Knock yourself out

the funniest s*** was him saying Montreal was more relevant to hiphop than any southern city a month or two ago lmao

why’d people automatically go to vinyl for next option? at least rip an iTunes file if you’re gonna use lossy audio

it’s very obvious when a producer rips a sample LQ

Holy s***

Dude also said he doesnt like rappers incorporating melodic s*** in their music whatsoever

Such a dumb way to interact w rap lol

Found out nicholas crazen wasn't Black 💔

swear madlib mentioned getting s*** from youtube one time lol

Yup

Smdh That comes from the write up on twitter. This was trending .

Swiping cards and stacking chips

Lol

Weird he's saying this as those YL/Starker/Papo2oo4 guys whom he works with make music that sounds like it's built around sampling youtube rips of Hot 97 hits from the early 00s.