How many of you actually write your own songs?

[" Killah! "]

No, no, not "sampling" somebody else's song, then making a song out of it.

How many of you sit in front of a synth/guitar/piano and write a song... with verse and chorus, then actually make a completely new hiphop song from scratch, rather than using a sample.

Just wondering.




Killah!

 

[vitaminman]

Killah,

I write tracks from scratch. A lot of times I'll listen to something and try to figure out how it was put together, and in the process I come up with something I never would have done if I had started dry.

Although I don't rip complete songs off like Puff Daddy, I've been known to sample drums of old funk and disco records, chop them up in Cool Edit, drop them into Cubase, then add my own MIDI stuff on top to try to hide the fact that it was a sample.

If I knew how to mic and play drums properly, I'd just as soon record someone playing the beats instead because there is no chance of me getting nailed for copyright infrigement.

The goal is to have people use my tracks as their samples so I can hunt them down and get lots of money off them.

Take care,

Nick

 

[PG13]

<-- I do

 

[BeatTRibe]

I do.

 

[Devan Tha Dogen]

No doubt.

 

[Briellz]

I make tracks from scratch. Sometimes I like to sample though.

 

[afriquedeluxe]

i do 50% from scratch and 50% sample, but not sample like puff daddy

 

[Ghostlybeats]

I more often than not write and program my own music.. Having said that, I will use the occasional irresistable sample if it is rare and grabs me. Let's face it, mainstream is moving away from sampling and hip hop is getting more and more repsect as a true artform from outsiders. Synth and live instruments in hip hop are the future and i don't want to be left behind. Sampling will probably always be a part of hip hop but eventually the supply of quality samples with diminish. I guess I just prefer to program everything myself to be able to truly call it my own.

 

[nasir jones]

me

 

[Copenhagen]

I start most songs from scratch. If I sample, I don't sample loops but just 1-2 sounds or create a ReCycle loop file and then play the ReCycle loop totally different...but still relying on the sounds that originally got me into liking the sample...

 

[MaximeRobin]

I use alot of samples but I change them alot. I use synth tho. One way or another, I don't compose a song to canibalize it after.

 

[Millenium]

That would be me

Creativity and Originality is my prime objective in this rap game! Peace! Samples are cool but too much hastle to get permission and if the joint is really hot then your the artist that owns the sample would probably ask a ton for it! James Brown didn't make any songs for years and could afford to live lavish because of his sample royalties! Naw not gonna be able to do it! Peace

 

[Trell]

I do Just me and my MP-7

 

[old supreme]

we used to use no samples. now we use mainly samples with some instruments mixed in

 

[Barock]

I'm down with samples and synths... I don'T like the comparison between "samplers" and "non-samplers"... It just about music!!!

 

[J Cro]

i do half and half. all depends on the sound im looking for with each particular track.

 

[The KID]

I believe it shows more creativity when you write your own tracks, I usually sit down on a piano get my chords and movements together and then begin making the track

 

[Cyanide]

Me and my group make tracks from scratch all the time we have sampled a couple of things but once we get down putting our own style in it it doesn't even sound like anything else I have ever heard. And people that I pride myself on being able to rap i think its only right to write your own stuff.

 

[Cold Truth]

i do whatever i feel like!!! i mostly do everything on my xp-80 and my MPC but i began with an sp 202 and dr 202 and so everything was a sample. it just depends..... forget about hip hop, rock.... forget genres period. its just about msic itself. most of my tracks people say they couldnt here someone rapping to..... but that is in large part due to the fact that the melodies and the styles i use sound more like movie scores than "traditional" hip hop. i am pretty versatyle within my own styles, it just doesnt conform toeveryones definitions. i say screw any and all limitations; anything that you have at your disposal is suitable fo hip hop

 

[Cold Truth]

by the way i am sick of people acting like sampling isnt "real"music, that you just "stole"something someone else did. there are many times i have heard the sampled artist talk about how they never would have thought to do this ar thata certain way.... i have a track where i jacked the temptations "just My Imagination" and chopped the beginning guitar part into like 4 pieces and.... viola! instant freestyle track! and it sounded nothing at all like the original.