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| From | "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: L.A. has a new "indie" alternative radio station? |
| Date | Tue, 06 Jan 2004 12:18:54 -0600 |
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After listening to SPEAKERBOXX a few times, I looked at the liner notes, and
I was suprised how few samples were used -- the nifty R & B melodic choruses
were almost unanimously written by Big Boi and his collaborators.
But I don't think Billy was accusing Outkast of ripping off a hook -- he
just said it sounded like a prior R & B era -- and while I don't hear new
jack, I thought the same thing -- "The Way You Move"'s chorus is a
throwback. And a damn good one.
Mike Bennett
Record reviews and more at http://fufkin.com
>From: Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org, audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: L.A. has a new "indie" alternative radio station?
>Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 13:09:05 -0500
>
>At 04:22 AM 1/6/2004 -0600, Billy G. Spradlin wrote:
> >I have heard the follow-up "I Like the Way You Move" and its your basic
> >gangsta
> >party rap with a super catchy chorus that sounds like it was pilfered
>from
> >some "new jack swing" hit from 1989-92.
>
>Except that it's an original chorus written by Big Boi and the guy who's
>singing it, Patrick "Sleepy" Brown.
>
>I've read several people so far make similar claims about "The Way You
>Move" ("aww, they just ripped off the chorus from some old Earth Wind and
>Fire song" is another popular contention) and it's always a hoot when they
>discover otherwise. Guess what, folks! They're not all subliterate
>cretins! Some hip-hoppers can write their own hooks!
>
>S
>
>NP: Pioneer Paramus -- R. Stevie Moore
>
>
>
>
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