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Re:The shady one-man corporation that's destroying hip-hop (... by qq66 on Sunday February 09, 2014 @05:48PM (#7207736)
Interestingly, the Grammy for Best Rap Album of 2013 went to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' "The Heist," which didn't use any samples expressly to avoid legal issues, but ended up sounding much fresher and original as a result.
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Re:The shady one-man corporation that's destroying hip-hop (... by flycaliguy on Sunday February 09, 2014 @07:01PM (#7208123)
Personally I thought the synth sounds were a bit cheesy on that record, thrift shop sounds more like a genre parody. I think the album would have sounded better if the two were not prevented from even basic sampling.

In a lot of cases not using samples often just means taking a sample which you have already roughly arranged into a song and spending a lot of time and money recreating it with live musicians.

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Re:The shady one-man corporation that's destroying hip-hop (... by te_chris on Sunday February 09, 2014 @06:18PM (#7207908)
I guess, but it seems pretty univerally accepted that Kendrick Lamar's good kid mAAD city should have won that, so I'm not sure what using the grammys as a barometer proves.
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Re:The shady one-man corporation that's destroying hip-hop (... by qq66 on Monday February 10, 2014 @01:00AM (#7209408)
Right, the only point is that The Heist is, commercially and critically, a very successful album that doesn't have any samples not for artistic but for legal reasons.
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