The Indian/Arabic sample era lmao 🤦🏾‍♂️

Niggas buried that trend into the ground

This one pains me as a Darkchild fan but yea during the Full Moon album you can hear the futuristic sound way more

Crazy that even after Missy called out beat biters (1999) there were still so many in the 00s. Their influence was heavy

forgot about their beef

Yeah scotty was the #1 culprit

That’s what made the Neptunes/Timbo & Missy era so special

They changed rap, R&B, and pop with they wave. They could give the same sound to Hov or Kelis and it would work perfectly for both artists

Gave us this classic lol

“I’m a real producer and you just a piano maaannn”

Do y’all count these?

Toxic had that Indian sample

Tim really was the goat

bro was really thinking outside the box back then

Timbo was going crazy

Was probably the last era he was really reigning supreme but damn what a hell of a run

He was dominating for a whole decade

No Outkast mention? Feel like Atliens arguably started the futuristic wave even before Timbo and were right there pushing boundaries with them

Always felt this was Timbo inspired

Try Again came out after but it’s clear Can I Get A was tryna go for the vibe Tim was known for at the time

This a Timbo and Missy thread lol but yea

S/o Organized Noize

This got that sound Outkast was working with back then

I give Devante Swing some credit for the Timbo/Missy sound and Teddy Riley credit for the Neptunes sound. Not saying they bit, they had just had elite mentors to enter the game with

I was literally typing something about that lol

It's hilarious that Darkchild did all that to just let Timbo make an amazing remix on his ass

Darkchild a legend tho lets go easy on him

Missy/Tim and Neptunes was putting in work in the 90s too

Their work with Devante Swing and Teddy Riley helped stamp them in the R&B world, eventually their sound evolved into what we know it as today

Their sound was developing at the same time as Dungeon Fam

This was 96

And that’s P saying SWV at 0:21

I’m certain that phase had a huge influence on them. Rap and R&B feel inextricably linked now and that era in their early careers helped set the tone

aaand NO

I use Michael Jackson (Dangerous and Invincible) as a litmus test on how big of an influence these producers had that the King even adapted to the sound

Like this wouldn’t exist without them (yet again another Darkchild beat )

Timbaland used to really beatbox on his tracks and that s*** sounded fire Damn near every time lol

He all over the Snoop track, even on the melody lmao

Used to sound fire to me lol loved how it worked with the drums, was a nice accent

S/o the legend Darkchild 😭

Side bar: Love the production on Justified but it really would’ve been fire to hear Mike hop on those tracks. Mike said f*** that I need that Nore s*** lmao

I forgot about that Snoop album too, it just sounds so different from everything else in his discog

Facts I’ma have to peep

I forget about the Snoop No Limit era

It's hard to call the Neptunes biters though. Arguably it was Timbaland biting their usage of those Triton and Moog sounds; he was still doing sample heavy beats until, like, Hey Papi dropped which could easily be a Neptunes throwaway.

Timbaland created a real divergence from everyone else with his legendary drum programming though. Til this day no producer out right now f***ing with Timb on that

Agreed their sound was different. The only Neptunes beat to be that sounds like Timbaland off the top of my head is this

And there’s no sample which makes it more impressive to me lol