Every Kanye Sample Ever [808s and Heartbreak Edition]
They say mediocre artists borrow, great artists steal. I’ll let you determine what that makes Kanye.
Stumble It!
They say mediocre artists borrow, great artists steal. I’ll let you determine what that makes Kanye.
Stumble It!
December 10th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
That makes him one hell of a sample-based producer.
I REALLY hope you’re not trying to re-start the whole “loop-based sampled beats are not original” deal.
That said, this video is pretty fucking sick… thanks for that!
December 10th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
How can anyone who likes hip-hop dislike samples. That’s like riding for bagels but not cream cheese.
Glad you like the video.
December 11th, 2008 at 12:09 am
awesome video.
“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”…thomas jefferson
if you want anything to carry any weight, you’d better know your history. contemporary work in nearly every genre is all about pastiche.
it would be great to make videos like that for people in different disciplines.
December 11th, 2008 at 12:09 am
OK, thanks for clearing that up. Believe me, there are PLENTY of people who like hip-hop who still think that looped samples aren’t acceptable. Eff them.
Here’s to loops AND bagels!! Kanyeezy is schmeering those records all the hell over the beat!
December 11th, 2008 at 12:25 am
@ Mike-I know of no such Jacobins but I’ll take your word for it.
@Anne-That’s a really interesting question and there’s certainly a fine line between cheap theft and artful homage. In a way, it’s sort of like attempting to figure out a magician’s tricks. Sometimes, you don’t want to know. Unless, it involves Tony Wonder.
December 11th, 2008 at 1:14 am
It makes him a sample-based producer? That said, I do feel like a ton of his shit is barely flipped, and while that can be fun on the rapping side (”Cam raps over Journey!”), I can’t really say it’s the mark of a great producer. Like isn’t what people were so mad at Diddy about in the 90s, that he took really well-known 80s hits and did barely anything to them? Also, they had ‘Touch The Sky’ in there and Just Blaze did that. (And didn’t Toomp do Big Brother?) A lot of people make that mistake.
December 11th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Yet another reason to champion 808s & Heartbreak–I love Kanye to death, but even as a backpacker with a Benz, he was poppy in his sample choices, so why not eliminate the samples and just make pop and keep ALL of your publishing?
“Spaceship” is still jawdropping though.
There’s a reason the biggest hip hop songs of all time aren’t built on meat cleaver MPC chops–”Rapper Delight” anyone?
December 11th, 2008 at 9:25 am
and here we go…
December 11th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Kanye is a master of the sample. Some of the stuff he spins is just mindbending.
But I have to admit, I don’t like (we’ll say understand) 808’s and Heartbreak. Even so, this video makes me want to give it a few more listens, just to recognize those samples.
December 11th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
The way he flipped that “P.Y.T.” sample was ill. Would’ve never guessed it. Dope vid. What up Steely Dan!
December 11th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
This is a great argument for Kanye as one of the best sample-based producers. Makes me want to listen to Graduation again, there is some dope work on that album.
December 12th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
This is classic. Thanks for sharing. At least we know he’s got great taste in pop music….
December 14th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
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