EDIT: 1992 was a great fucking year. Look at that. I thought things would be good until 1997 or so, but damn, no. 1993 was good, but looks more like the dynamic was turning as early as 1994. https://www.billboard.com/archive/charts/1994/rap-song I think that's when you start seeing more large chunks of the same songs/artists.
Demand? Absolutely...samples still being on the biggest selling hip hop albums. 99% percent of the consumers have no idea what a sample is. They just know if they like it or not.
You can make a modest income as a sample based underground producer.
Will there ever be another dj shadow endtroducing? Probably not.
There is a small section of the hip hop community who favour sample based rap music, and there is product being produced for that section of the community. Mainly vinyl only stuff pressed in small qualities which is just fine as it keeps the music under the radar and even if it did get noticed by the sample police its unlikely they will bother about a 300 run vinyl pressing that hardly anyone is going to know exists.
I'm this guy^ I dropped a record last spring on wax with no barcode, no marketing or promo. We turned a profit, albeit a small one.. It was enough to make the next move.
Have you seen or heard this Leon Bridges kid who's signed to Columbia? Really good voice, good-looking lad, the kind of act you could easily imagine being successful without a whole lot of effort. Yet everything about how he's being presented to the world screams, "WE'VE FOUND HIM, EVERYONE! THIS IS THE NEW SAM COOKE!" Seriously, Sam Cooke. You're really going to dump that kind of weight on a kid's shoulders without giving him the material to help carry the load? Man, that's all kinds of fucked-up. It's like when that Duffy lass came along a few years back - bottle-blonde British girl doing ersatz soul, and everywhere she got written about, some soft biff was saying "she's the new Dusty Springfield!" Was she fuck. You can pull it off just by looking the part for a while, but if you don't have sufficient material strong enough to make people forget they're not actually listening to Dusty Springfield or Sam Cooke (or Big L), then it strikes me you're pretty much on borrowed time.
^^^
Just heard of this kid today --- lots of talent, but totally feel what you are saying here.
just helped clear a sample for the highly anticipated Y0ung Th&g album coming out later this week and it's one of the best songs on there (though the sample source was pretty pedestrian).
There is a small section of the hip hop community who favour sample based rap music, and there is product being produced for that section of the community. Mainly vinyl only stuff pressed in small qualities which is just fine as it keeps the music under the radar and even if it did get noticed by the sample police its unlikely they will bother about a 300 run vinyl pressing that hardly anyone is going to know exists.
I'm this guy^ I dropped a record last spring on wax with no barcode, no marketing or promo. We turned a profit, albeit a small one.. It was enough to make the next move.
Vanderslice! Love your videos, man. And (of course) I think your beats are ill. Been following ya' for a minute. Best of luck in your future moves. You definitely have a fan over here.
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Fix-ed.
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Voice, soul, looks, charisma.
The truly great ones are the next nothing.
Yes, Billboard.
https://www.billboard.com/archive/charts/1992/rap-song
EDIT: 1992 was a great fucking year. Look at that. I thought things would be good until 1997 or so, but damn, no. 1993 was good, but looks more like the dynamic was turning as early as 1994. https://www.billboard.com/archive/charts/1994/rap-song I think that's when you start seeing more large chunks of the same songs/artists.
Yeah I wasn't really referring to backpack or throwback hip hop. Mainstream.
Why not? It gauges mainstream, popular music. That's what I was referring to.
You can make a modest income as a sample based underground producer.
Will there ever be another dj shadow endtroducing? Probably not.
Peace,
Stein...
I'm this guy^ I dropped a record last spring on wax with no barcode, no marketing or promo. We turned a profit, albeit a small one.. It was enough to make the next move.
^^^
Just heard of this kid today --- lots of talent, but totally feel what you are saying here.
Still demand for anything that's decent though.
make good shit, people will like it, the end
Vanderslice! Love your videos, man. And (of course) I think your beats are ill. Been following ya' for a minute. Best of luck in your future moves. You definitely have a fan over here.
Sample heads should check him out. Plus some of his youtube vids are hilarious.
https://soundcloud.com/vanderslicebeats