Rap About Nothing: Hip Hop Chat Thread

[Magic33]

- someone who's never actually chopped samples on a drum machine/keyboard

especially pre-FL and ****

Can Kanye even read music?

 

[iamdef]

Can Kanye even read music?

Would you believe it if somebody said yes?

 

[RIP Screw]

Album of the Year so far

 

[6pac]

Can Kanye even read music?

Again these are the types of questions you ask when you've never made music

Jamie Foxx (ear taught) and Pharrell (below) probably can't read music in terms of sheet music and ****.

 

[RIP sleazyy]

Mike and Jimi couldn’t read music

 

[Magic33]

Would you believe it if somebody said yes?

Maybe, if I saw some sign of it, but most producers who can were involved in band or play instruments. They didn't go back and learn after becoming producers.

So if you can't even read music, you are a musician how?

 

[6pac]

Mike and Jimi couldn’t read music

****** think ****** in the studio on some beethoven **** LMAO

 

[6pac]

Maybe, if I saw some sign of it, but most producers who can were involved in band or play instruments. They didn't go back and learn after becoming producers.

So if you can't even read music, you are a musician how?

i was in middle school band and remember absolutely none of that **** when it comes to making beats.

IMO sheet music makes things more complicated it's more about your fingering on whatever instrument and knowing your chords

Nobody is reading sheet music in 2019 probably not in the last 30-40 years.

 

[Magic33]

Jimi Hendrix played an instrument

So Jay-Z is a musician?

Again these are the types of questions you ask when you've never made music

Jamie Foxx (ear taught) and Pharrell (below) probably can't read music in terms of sheet music and ****.

Jamie Fox sings, you're all over the place

 

[iamdef]

Maybe, if I saw some sign of it, but most producers who can were involved in band or play instruments. They didn't go back and learn after becoming producers.

So if you can't even read music, you are a musician how?

By definition a person is a musician either plays an instrument or is musically talented. Most would consider him musically talented

 

[6pac]

Jamie Fox sings, you're all over the place

you right bro

could ray charles read music?

can stevie wonder read music?

ppl should be required to try making music before engaging in convos like this.

 

[iamdef]

Jamie Fox sings, you're all over the place

You didn't know Jamie played piano?

 

[maq25060]

You didn't know Jamie played piano?

Folks don't know how talented he is. Best entertainer of the late 20th century.

 

[SpittaJetLife]

Folks don't know how talented he is. Best entertainer of the late 20th century.

Dudes in here talking about Biscuit West as a great entertainer. A dude that doesn’t write his own music and is only good at sampling other artists music.

 

[Magic33]

you right bro

could ray charles read music?

can stevie wonder read music?

and what does Kanye play?

Does he sing?

He half way writes and produces.

So what is he great at musically? His production hasn't even been that good the past 10 years.

 

[iamdef]

Folks don't know how talented he is. Best entertainer of the late 20th century.

Singer, actor, musician, comedian....crazy talented
Donald Glover is on his tail tho

 

[iamdef]

So what is he great at musically? His production hasn't even been that good the past 10 years.

Sounds like we are stepping into subjectivity. You may not view his production as "that good" but a musician is a musician even if 30% of listeners count it as "good"
Quality of music does not a musician make

 

[$tacy]

these ***** keep going

Boat wasn’t bad on here. Wish that glacier boy project dropped

 

[Magic33]

Sounds like we are stepping into subjectivity. You may not view his production as "that good" but a musician is a musician even if 30% of listeners count it as "good"
Quality of music does not a musician make

So all producers are musicians?

 

[iamdef]

So all producers are musicians?

By definition, yes.
But even then, by definition a musician is "musically talented" and that can be subjective. So somebody can be a musician and only be recognized as musically talented by a small group of people while others disagree.

 

[6pac]

and what does Kanye play?

Does he sing?

He half way writes and produces.

So what is he great at musically? His production hasn't even been that good the past 10 years.

Really this comes down to you not really seeing computers, samplers, etc. as instruments.

Drum programming, sample chopping, sound design are all just as important as "traditional" musical things.

Music won't evolve if people don't accept that technology can be used as instruments, just as a piano or a guitar was ground breaking technology at some point in history.

Is this ***** a musician?

 

[RIP sleazyy]

could ray charles read music?

can stevie wonder read music?

 

[tay1]

Turnpike Ike was hard. Port of Miami 2 gon be hard

 

[6pac]

brian eno not a musician? because he not using traditional instruments?

 

[RIP Screw]

A dude that doesn’t write his own music

Who writes music today?