Duece had great advice, now I will add my views coming from a artists perspective because I am qualified. Making songs in 4 bars, nothing wrong with it. Sampling 4 bars of someone elses work and calling it yours I think something is wrong with that. Even the courts will tell you that it's not yours by law. Artist are in the business of creation, or atleast the emulation of creation. (Go deep)Everything that man does is a emulation of creation, but whatever he does cannot posess the properties of true creation, so we begin at the emulation of. If we see a landscape and paint it, our painting is a emulation of something real, while being original according to popular perspective. So we can say that a real musician playing a instrument is the closest emulation of controlled sound other than the human voice. The problem with hip hop is that hip hop missed the emulation theory, because technology could not provide the opportunity for none musicians to emulate actually musicians. So hip hop began by recycling previously recorded music. Now that technology has progress and is accessible to many this barrier has been broken. Artist who has broken the chain and have emulated the musicians has always brought the ground breaking stuff to the industry. Take Outkast production for example. Yes what sounds good sounds good, but things aren't always what they seem, and that's where the art and the creative process differs. I don't give credit to anyone who finds a sample and makes a beat out of it because I know the process. You search and search and find something by chance, and that chance depends on wether you got a hot track or not, not your own ability. The part that stinks the most is each one of these people who do this, has the potential, to let us in on a original part of themselves, but you will never hear it, because they got a goal that's headed for the industry, and they have no interest in sharing or exploring their innerself. I'd rather appreciate music rather than just like how it sounds. Yeah you can flip samples and make them unreconizable, and I'm all for that, because you can emulate a new pattern with sounds, but as always, even those people who do sample in untraditional ways get offended about the topic I'm speaking on because it is 9 times out of 10 it's talked about vaguely. I really don 't see how people who sample 4 bars of another persons composition cannot know that without the original, they don't have anything. From a artists perspective it's the same as a person who traces because they cannot draw, rather than a person who has skillz, but traces to spend more time using talent heavy mediums. Don't miss the point, because it's not exactly on the topic of the thread. I've said somethings before, but this is what I've been saying all along.
Real or fake do what you do it's a free country, but commercial value is not the same as artistic value.
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It's not a hard concept to grasp, I'm just particular about my craft. But what would the world be without the dishonorable side, the world has never known a world of such, maybe for a instance.
