"Can you guys name some hip-hop songs that are in 6/8?"
I plan to do a mix featuring only them in promo of this instro EP ("Kick In The Gate" (...waving the 6/8)) w/ the same theme; I have a couple in mind, but I think you guys might know some I either don't or have forgotten...
some i have so far:
jay-z - my first song jay-z oh my god nas - heaven a$ap rocky - brand new guy
fucking perfect. thanks yo! this madlib jawn that i forgot all about reminds me of "red toe nail bashing" from the roots LNJF sandwiches joint, gotta add that also
10. "RE: Can you guys name some hip-hop songs that are in 6/8?" In response to Reply # 0 Fri Apr-20-12 01:16 PM by howardlloyd
>I plan to do a mix featuring only them in promo of this >instro EP ("Kick In The Gate" (...waving the 6/8)) w/ the same >theme; I have a couple in mind, but I think you guys might >know some I either don't or have forgotten... > >some i have so far: > >jay-z - my first song >jay-z oh my god >nas - heaven >a$ap rocky - brand new guy > >add on.
kick in the door (*my bad...u said kick in the gate lol) is not 6/8... nor is my 1st song or heaven...(dont know the asap song)
those are all 4/4
u gonna be hard pressed to find a 6/8 joint...maybe on aceyalone human language joint
Listen to the hi hat on "Heaven." 1 2 3, + 2 3 / 1 2 3, + 2 3 / etc.
Then listen to the hi hat on "My First Song." Same count.
That's pure 6/8. Or 12/8, which is really the same thing with four beats (each having three subdivisions) to a measure, instead of just two. It ain't 4/4 - you can play a triplet against a 4/4 beat but you'd never have a hat counting off triplets for the entire duration of the song like that.
any beat can be divided in to triplets... hence the 8T, 16T, 32T settings on all drum machines
even how he's rhyming indicates the 4 beat in a measure...listen to where his rhyming words fall...kick---snare---kick---snare (repeat) and then his line resets
musically u may be right lol... but i pretty sure about 3 things
1 my pops would say its 4/4 2 when they made the beat... the drum machine was set to 4/4 3 jay-z wrote it like he was writing to 4/4 ....in double time
29. "It's not semantics" In response to Reply # 24 Fri Apr-20-12 03:33 PM by dalecooper
but it IS math. Technically any song in 6/8 or 12/8 could be notated in 2/4 or 4/4. But when you're playing three subdivisions of each quarter note for the entire song, it's common practice to notate it as either 6/8 or 12/8. To most musicians (who know what they're talking about, and not just modern producer dudes programming a drum machine), these two songs would be in one of those two time signatures.
Basically there is no "right" answer, but there's the answer you would get if you polled a lot of knowledgeable people who were tasked with writing this down on paper. Most of them wouldn't put it in 4/4 because then they have to make a triplet notation 2-4 times for every measure of the entire song.
Regarding where he rhymes or starts/stops lines - the natural emphasis in 6/8 or 12/8 is always on two beats/four beats respectively. 1 2 3, + 2 3, reset. Stress on 1 and 4 for 6/8, 1/4/7/10 for 12/8.
If anyone's wondering, I read up on the difference between 6/8 and 3/4, seems like 6/8 has stressed and un-stressed notes, while 3/4 is all stressed notes... hmm
anyway, this beat is 6/8, slower than the ones posted above:
23. "count the hi-hats in each bar of the first beat" In response to Reply # 18
it goes 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8, that's 6 eighth notes - 6/8. has nothing to do with the tempos, b/c you can do the same for the ones i listed initially ("my first song" and "heaven") which are faster.
But setting a sequence or drum machine to 4/4 time and quantizing the eighth notes to triplets will get you the same effect as 6/8 (or 12/8), so it's easy to see where the confusion lies.
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