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Topic subjectkanye is very much an arranger.
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2668877, kanye is very much an arranger.
Posted by Joe Corn Mo, Wed Feb-29-12 03:39 PM
and he's a decent songwriter when he wants to be.

i don't see how morphing a collection of samples
is any different from directing a horn player to execute a particular note at a particular time...

at least as far as the arrangement goes.
EDIT: especially when the song you flipped
sounds nothing like the finished composition.


i mean, if you had picked any other producer
i would pretty much agree with you.


but kanye is not in the same category
as whatever the fuck kids are listening to nowadays.



>sampling are actually at the same level and skill set as
>those who made the original....
>
>sampling is fine, but people acting like kanye west is a
>musician, producer, or composer of the same ilk as those who
>did it with real musicians is just foolish..
>
>it's dragged Black music down to being super cheap