Facts and the biggest galaxy brain thing to do is to be in conversation with the original art you’re sampling, like on Frank’s Close To You some of the lyrics feel like sly references to the Carpenters’. That’s the type of s*** I love

it's entirely subjective how well it does or does not work, but tbh it's kind of the same as choosing what genre to work in too.

if you go on a youtube tutorial and just 1 to 1 copy a jerk beat that's lowkey a form of sampling too imo and not very creative. even before there was AI we lowkey had a ton of ppl out here churning out slop, AI just made it more obvious how automated a lot of music is.

music in general is a lineage and it's all references direct or indirect

sampling well starts with choosing what to sample and imo that's almost where the most power lies, both obscure or once-popular stuff can work, it's about what in the past you think has a different or new energy when put into the present. the current moment constantly changes and so does what music we connect with, the best sampling explicates something personal from something else and gives it a new resonance imo

Well said that just following a tutorial to a T is basically sampling never thought about it that way but its facts

Folks it’s just a dj that plays random music and past listens. S***s basically a radio station

It’s literally not a DJ

Whatever the hell it is it’s useful to me hearing some new s***

Might I suggest talking to humans or looking for yourself

Time well spent.

An example of a lazy artist reciting an iconic rap verse and trying to pass it off an “homage.” That’s why he got sued by the originators for this s***

anxiety by doechii is lazy

don't cry by J Dilla is cool

Eh I’m fine with how I’ve been doing

not a doechii hater but its crazy how much work went into the og compared to her version and mind you im not even a fan of the og like that but the sampling is insane

I give her a break cause it’s just some s*** she made in her bedroom in 2020 that went viral after the fact. But yea lol

If it sound good then it's cool, if it's ass then it's whack

pretty much

But he talks too!!!

Always found it funny how people would point to anxiety and say something along the lines of “this is why sampling is bad/lazy” but the gotye song is like 90% samples (which are obviously more creatively arranged but that’s besides the point)

wait fr?

Yeah look it up on whosampled or yt or whatever. Tonnes of samples were used

the sample breakdown is crazy lol

All she did was sing and rap over a loop of an instrumental.

I think people hated how big it got and how much it was all over Tik Tok. There wasn’t anything wrong with what she did. She did what a rapper would do.

Its cool if i like the song and its lazy if i dont like it

not mutually exclusive really

its cool when u have a gifted producer add/subtract/manipulating layers (reworking the context, speed, new instrumentation that builds upon whats there, etc). or when rappers cleverly interpolate certain words from said samples into their verses / hooks

lazy is obviously when u just loop de loop n pull the beat~melody verbatim and essentially make the same song but worse, particularly if u dont manage to give it new flavor

but sometimes both approaches can occur simultaneously yet still make for fun pastiche music that's a trending fad but also very much emblematic of its time

As long as it ain’t obvious nostalgia bait it’s cool

Yep exactly. In the video I tried to be as clear as possible that I don't think it's a value judgment on how good the song is. Of course the creative and meaningful samples/references are going to hit harder though