Will.I.Am = killing it?
mannybolone
Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
http://spinemagazine.com/music/october/thegame/compton.mp3The Game: ComptonI'm saying - a year ago, I would have laughed at the idea that I'd give a f--- about anything Will works on but he's had an impressive year on the production year. This new track may rely on the familiar (hello "Hard Times"!) but I can't remotely hate on this.
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i'm even started to get a lil excited about his pop productions
Yeah he got a polished A&M image but dude was putting in work at the goodlife and a shit ton of other local spots before he ever got pop-friendly
keep bouncing
but him rapping 'hard' with the more g'd up rappers is pretty silly. dude just needs to stick with the beats.
This is debatable.
He is doing his thing though and his beats are okay.
Get that paper Wil!
Every beat of his that I like has been done before by someone else. What is so "Genius" about this?
What are some of his recent productions that aren't complete knock-offs of oldschool beats? Even that Fergie track is basically Afro-Rican "Give It All You Got" with a newschool kick. The only one I can think of is "Keep Bouncin'" which really isn't all that hot IMO.
Word up. Whatever one might think about BEP, Will is a really talented dude with a remarkable work ethic.
I fully respect he's grind.
Since when is flipping a sample/full song WORSE then it's been used killing it?
Yes, some of his stuff sounds better then lean with it rock with it type stuff, but for the sound he's going for it's not even as good as an average 94 beat.
and...
are you saying you don't approve of the "local black experience"?
people say this kind of stuff on here far too often.
Put your money where your mouthlips is; replicate the beat and post it.
I dare you
Can someone post the OG? I still have yet to hear it.
Day the OG beat is off of Baby Huey's LP, the track is "Hard Times"
he took the Chicago Gangsters "Gangster Boogie" for the hook and the rest sonds like it probably came off keyboards
I'll post audio for the Baby Huey if its needed.
Oh, I misread it.. I thought you were talking about the Timberlake "Damn Girl" cut.
Day, if you heard the timberlake song you pretty much heard the OG.
w o w.
that's fucked up.
WE ALL NEED TO START GETTING PAID!
Wtf did WillIAm even DO[/b]???
I don't like rap music.
Just tell him you already replicated it above in Thelowendtheory's post.
Confirm/deny?
My take on the "Will I beats": whether or not they're complex/original ideas...I'm certainly digging on hearing those chunky loops in r&b music on a regular basis again. Simple pleasures for me.
I thought the same thing when I heard it...
definitly...
You are all little dudes and know nothing about rap.
And I am especially disappointed in the one Phill.
Will.I.Am > Just Blaze in 2006.
Yeah, I went there.