MetroStyles
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80% of a record's commercial success is about the production/beat, and has nothing to do with the rapper.
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To clarify my stance: I like rap, at least some of it, but when I think about mega popular songs from the 90s like:
80% of a record's commercial success is about the production/beat, and has nothing to do with the rapper.
One big knock against Nas being the greatest emcee of all is his lack of a ear for good beats from the middle of his career onward.
One big knock against Nas being the greatest emcee of all is his lack of a ear for good beats from the middle of his career onward.
BTW, to those that say this applies to all genres, I disagree.
Not true. Take country music, for example. It's very common for country singers to release albums where they've written only a couple of songs, and their bands are basically interchangeable. No one knows who was in Garth Brooks' band because they were basically a bunch of studio musicians hired to go on the road with him. This is very much like what you describe with rap - Garth Brooks is just the singer. The songs are written by someone else, and the music is performed by a bunch of guys who receive no recognition.