14. "most dance music i hear now is just programming" In response to In response to 11
it's throwin' in bleeps and swirls and strings over a four on the floor style beat programmin' four bars rinse repeat throw in a change up etc
you're right, you don't have to know how to play music to make hip hop you have to know how to hear music to know what sounds good to the masses and will work that's a skill that's overlooked and underrated havin' that ear for samples and makin' it work sure, you may not know what chord progression you just sampled or even what note but you might know instinctly that if you put say, impeach the president under blues and pants, that shit will rock not many can do that