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Posted by buffalo_sauce, Sat Sep-21-13 06:01 PM
this is partly why rap was so hot/popular in the 80s/90s/early 00's.

you had all this music made in the 60s/70s/80s that didn't necessarily have the right sentiment attached to the music.

rappers came in with a new form of conveying thoughts/ideas than singing.
much short notes, more notes per bar than singing.
more room for saying things...

attached with little segments music recorded in lo-fi fidelity.

boom... hip-hop.

but why did it work so well...

why would a song about oral sex match with the guitar from brick's "fun"?

this was the beauty of rap over sample-based programming.

in 02 forward, when sampling lost traction...
you had 2 note piles of shit with lyrics equally as insipid.

big reason you'd never hear anybody banging something like "shake ya tailfeather" 10 years after the fact but in 03 plenty of people were still playing shit from 93 and are still playing shit from 93 today.