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>>Yes...it changed the way (for better and for worse) on how
>>rappers recorded singles....It was hardcore at times....But
>it
>>was also blatantly commercial to the point where production
>>values became very obvious...
>>
>>The thing is Biggie was so great that you looked the other
>way
>>most of the time when Puff was straight jacking hits....
>
>...but I think Death Row had most of the above cornered before
>Bad Boy started doing that. Bad Boy just took it to another
>level. But that was the whole storyline about Dre's production
>from The Chronic and onward. He took hardcore music and made
>it accessible to the masses. But I guess Bad Boy just took it
>a little further.


Nah man...there was an art to what Dre and them was doing when they sampled heavy....Beyond the "Mothership Connection" ("Let Me Ride") a lot of the straight forward play-overs was done with live instruments and often times flipped...And most of the times Dre was taking songs that was forgotten ("Lil Ghetto Boys")...Nobody outside of DJ Quick was doing that because finding musicians to capture those old songs was tough and at the very least was a bit too time consuming and ate up too much of the budget...

When Puff and his team wanted to go for that commercial brass ring they usually were shameless about it...lol...They jacked the exact recordings and raised the bass levels and that was about it...

In other words, Puff and his crew went the lazy route....But Biggie was so great that we often times looked the other way...