Comments on: Every Kanye Sample Ever [808s and Heartbreak Edition]

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Every Kanye West Sample Ever [808s & Heartbreak Edition] | Shabooty.com — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:18:53 +0000

[...] the vid. Hat tip: Weiss. [...]

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:05:25 +0000

This is classic. Thanks for sharing. At least we know he’s got great taste in pop music….

By: Curt

Curt — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:24:59 +0000

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.

By: jason

jason — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:47:41 +0000

The way he flipped that “P.Y.T.” sample was ill. Would’ve never guessed it. Dope vid. What up Steely Dan!

By: Maggie

Maggie — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:40:31 +0000

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.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:25:22 +0000

and here we go…

By: Zilla Rocca

Zilla Rocca — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:09:00 +0000

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?

By: Tray

Tray — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:14:20 +0000

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.

By: Passion of the Weiss

Passion of the Weiss — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:25:57 +0000

@ 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.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:09:24 +0000

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!