Dr Van Nostrand wrote:since when is it all about choppin and stuff thought?? these are the dudes that helped created the the ways of beat making that we all know today, they were the progression, and there is more to beat makin than just choppin shit up and rearrangin it, and just cause blogs and youtube blow up sample sources, people start to realize that sometimes these dudes just don't chop, but madlib is like a music teacher man, he's a big reason why alot of us really do what we do and like what we like, he made me realize that i can learn the same shit off of other hip hop as i did off of him, he's like a musical curator you know, just cause everybody seems to ride his dick doesn't mean you can't appreciate the music he makes, he's schoolin us on the music of the past so that we can know and build on it
I do appreciate his music, but if all he's doing is just adding drums to a loop, I can't respect him that much as a musician. I'm not saying that all Madlib and Dilla tracks are based on loops, but most of them certainly are.
Some of the sample artists might appreciate that he's using their sample, but he's still making money off of other people's [partial] work.
Primo on the other hand can find dope samples and also chop them up to make it sound really dope. I find him more creative than Madlib, yes...at least when it comes to sample-based hip-hop.
Just my 2 cents.