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There are 17 comments on The Beat Maker

  1. “Sampling,” as it’s called, is when beat makers take a portion from a previously recorded song, add it to snippets from other songs, and ultimately create a completely new song

    when a fun, catchy song is made based off of other artists pre-recorded material…great, congrats. when a career is based around using this format it just means your unoriginal. why can’t “artists” write their own music anymore?

    1. “it just means your [sic] unoriginal”

      What do you make of jazz musicians when they throw “ring around the Rosie” into a solo, or how artists seem to love the same chords over and over again, or others who just plain reuse melodies (intentionally or otherwise)?

      should we call Led Zeppelin unoriginal because they stole songs?
      earfarm.com/features/daily-feature/monday/1820

      or how about Journey, James Blunt, Jason Mraz, U2, The Beatles, et. al?
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I

      It may be more blatant than these artists, but at least I appreciate how samplers and producers are more often than not open where the samples came from. It influenced Steve to look back into the past and gain an appreciation of Jazz, to understand those that came before him, and to be honest about where his influences are coming from (literally).

  2. Steve Jones seems to be a great producer and knows his hip hop. The author of this article, not so much. Pete Rock, “producer for West.” Is that all that can be attributed to Pete Rock now? Please forget to mention that he was one half of one of the greatest hip hop duos of all time (Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth). Also don’t mention that he is the inventor of the remix. Oh and don’t ever bring up the fact that KANYE WAS INFLUENCED BY PETE ROCK AND IS OFTEN COMPARED TO THE BEATMAKING DEMIGOD. Honestly, it takes little more than a google search to find these facts. If you want to be a good journalist, please take the time to appropriately research your topic.

    1. Um it’s an article about Steve Jones, not Pete Rock. And this is BU today, not a hip hop magazine. Just because you want to read more about Pete Rock doesn’t mean the writer did a bad job.

    2. Amen Shivani!

      Also AK, Pete Rock is the “inventor of the remix”? Please! Rock came about in the late 80’s really making his name in the early 90’s – a decade or more after remixing as we know it today really began.

      The remix is not an “invention” that can be contributed to one person, but if you want to go there, try Tom Moulton in the ’70s disco hey day, and if you want to really get into it, the roots of remixing go back to the 60’s with Dance Hall and Dub, Lee “Scratch” Perry and the like.

      Really AK… you come out dropping knowledge like you know your business and miss by miles when it really only takes a simple Google search to find those facts.

  3. INTROSPECTIVE MINDS….. GREAT PRODUCERS… PRODUCED 90% of one of my joint… just google L-Biz &Introspective Minds.. Much Love all the way from Buffalo NY

    1. I wonder what would happen if the powers that be forced every popular rock and roll/ blues influenced band from the Beatles to the Black Keys to pay royalties to the generation of black innovators whose sound they popularized and made millions off of

  4. As an artist I really look up to the fact that he is pursuing his dream. With everyone in the game trying to make it you have to keep hustling. They say its the same with success, if you never stop trying it will eventually lead to it. Good stuff Steve Jones

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