>OK I get what you're saying, but in hiphop "producer" >basically MEANS something else.
8 times out of 10 Producer in hip-hop means Beatmaker. The production aspect happens as an after thought in alot of cases between the beat maker/engineer/probably misc business cats.
>If the rest of the music industry is overly concerned with >production, that's just because they're running out of good >songwriting.
What I gather from what Afkap was saying earlier is that the Beatles started the split of Studio Recording vs Live Playing. Based off of their impact in Pop music and recording. There came about the focus on the recording/producing aspect of music and not necessarily the songwriting (both lyrically and musically).
>I think the thread topic is a bit misleading. In fact it >doesn't actually apply to hip-hop. The original poster >should have said this.
No, I tend to agree though. Even as it applies to hip-hop we are in a production era right now. Your beats define you. Lyrics come second which are typically blah in most cases. But if you have signature series beats you may capture the attention of would-be fans.
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