It is worth noting, for anyone born 1995 or later... Kanye is NOT what rap used to sound like, at all. He literally started a revolution in music & fashion. Before Kanye, 50 Cent & G-Unit were the biggest thing. It was gangster rap. They literally performed in bullet proof vests... So everyone going: "HOW COULD YOU DENY SUCH A GOOD BEAT!?!" It is easier to understand, when you understand that NOTHING sounded like Kanye...until Kanye sounded like Kanye. Lol
Kanyes story is so unbelievable. How many ppl laughed at him, made fun of him. I would of never worked with those ppl again. Crazy how they all crawled back, and he kept most of their careers relevant as a producer and rapper.
@ThePBAwakening919 I never understood the genius of the track as a kid, but the way he literally tells his story is brilliant and when the strings come in around 6 minutes in gives me goosebumps every time
@@karlosman6265so true man. I first heard my older brother listening to it when I was around 8 or 9 years old and I have always gone back to it. I’m nearly 20 years old now and I still listen to the entire song every time it comes on.
Another great fact about the “Jesus Walks” beat. The sound that sounds just like a flute is actually John Legend doing some crazy whistling type of thing. I don’t even know how to describe it. There’s footage of it. I saw him replicating the sound on and mtv show probably about 20 years ago now. How he even found out he could do that is beyond me
Thats not it. Your vision and someone else's vision is not the same. Dr Dre produced in the club track for D12 and they said it was garbage but 50 cent turned it into his biggest hit. There is a guy by the name of Max Martin who has the title for the most top 10 and most number 1 songs across rap and pop and his biggest songs were all rejected and when I say his biggest song, Kanye biggest hit wouldnt make it onto this guy hit list of his worse hit... In any case, the producer has a vision and most times the artist and the label dont want to hear it .. Cardi didnt like one of her biggest number 1 track and the label had to force her to do it.. so there are a lot of layers to get a track done since a lot of people have to cosign it. You have the manager, the crew, the artist, the writers, the a&r, the label , and I am sure I am overlooking a few other positions and people who have to like the song for it to get done and then make the album
Ego. The industry is full of it apparently. The hip-hop industry has always been a game of sounding like the other guy and clowning the innovative guy until he gets a break.
Sadly as a rapper Kanye wasn't "cool enough" for the A & R's and other rappers but cool enough for us. 50 ¢ had to promote getting shot to be accepted as cool, Wayne had to be surrounded by a crew and be tatted up and others had to hide intellect to get put on. So props to Kanye for staying true to himself and reaping the benefits.
This is why Kanye is the way he is . Just like a anime character he gets laughed at for believing in himself and for seemingly having no power, in over his head, but then eventually shows everyone he’s OP
Kanye and many creatives negative experiences are reasons why you never take no for an answer. Many so-called experts don’t know much. Success is achieved from persistence. NEVER give up!
Nice one. Suggestion for a beat remake would be Jay Dee’s beat for Something That Means Something by The Pharcyde. To me it’s his most genius production. The plucking the chops out of a 10 min live version of Red Clay. Also the seemingly never ending but deft and musical variations on the patterns, and how the drums and sample interact together as one. Love the channel!
As a producer, your aim isn't to impress other producers because they will always think that they can do better, and producers have a different level of listening which is listening out for super fine details, timbre, mixing standard and sound quality, all stuff that the public don't give a shit about, the buying public just want to know if they can dance to it, is the rapper or singer any good, or will it sound great through their car speakers! I've been making music since the early 1990s and most of the time, the songs that I've spent the most time on, crafting and moulding into a masterpiece are the songs that people seem to find boring, then I will play them a crappy song that I made in 15 minutes flat, a song that I was considering deleting forever, that's when everyone starts bopping, rapping, dancing or singing and then telling me that this track is big.
@@Clevername22726 but that's the point, what you as the creator may "consider" to be your masterpiece, will sometimes appear to be a pile of horse shit to others...
I'm not a fan of Kanye as a person, but his production skills are undeniable. Also, as one of countless others in history who has had to deal with bully mentality, fuck *EVERYBODY* who was in that room in that last story. I hope they all felt like complete shit after he blew that song up.
Man love the content. I won’t lie based on thumbnail of the video I didn’t want to click on it but YOUR CONTENT IS AMAZING. I suggest maybe a thumbnail with you or a more creative one but dude I’m glad I clicked. Fantastic content, KEEP GOING ♥️🔥
Loved the video! I don’t know if it’s in your realm of expertise but, would you ever be able to touch on what are considered to be experimental producers/artists? I had Flying Lotus, knxwledge and a few others in mind… Keep up the content! I’m learning a lot from you! 🙏🏿❤️
Last call is my Favorite KANYE song of all time…I fell in love with it & played it on repeat 🔁 so many times. I even revisit it sometimes to get inspired
This is why I don't even bother trying to toss my music anymore. I had basically the same thing done to me by unknown artists and so called producers. Come to find out one producer in particular was just trying to hold me back. Or I'll later could hear bits of pieces of my music on the radio mysteriously. That was quite a while ago. Got to watch some of these haters. Unfortunately due to things just happening in life I didn't get a chance to release anything, but I'm just now starting to get back on doing music again.
N this explains why he has the attitude he has!!! He also told us before. Everything I’m not made me everything I am!!!!! Absolutely powerful words!!! I have the upmost respect for YE!!! Definitely my favorite producer ever!!! Straight up genius!!
I think u have to be a certain type of artist to rap to some of those beats. Most of those artist he pitch to had different styles of music. But, what was so nice about all of this is that these beats allowed kanye to showcase his rap skills as well as content. Especially in "heard em say". Such a great song
@@MrGST360 Just Blaze is humble he would not say Kanye took his shine. Both of them really took off after The Blueprint, both had bangers on there both had hits. From there and before Kanye put out College Dropout he became a huge in demand producer. Both of them are among the GOATs
@@matthewt8214 Blaze said it already. His half of Blueprint was done and Ye basically copied what he did to finish the album. Rest is history. What’s crazy is Bink days Blaze took his style.
Once again showing how crazy it was that Kanye was on par with Dilla, Rza and Q-Tip as one of the best boom pap producers and went full tilt the other direction.
Kanye style was super eaw for the industry. He'd be like the first millennial rapper. Even the way he sanpled and structured beats was so unorthodox compared to the engineering at the time. Alchemist was on the rise, same as Just Blaze who happened to be the more popular producer at the time
This is why I respect Kanye more than the other rappers. He is always evolving, he doesn't try to sound the same or make the same tempo beats. He tries something different even if it sounds good or bad.
exactly which rapper you know keep putting out the same type of music? The last time I checked the labels are the ones who decide what goes on the album, not the artist so you are highly mistaken. Kanye west cant put out any music that the label doesnt agree with regardless of what he wanted. Most of the songs you think kanye produced were produced by someone else and he helped coproduction so maybe we should start there... Still a genius but there is a lot that goes on behind the scene that you dont know and they dont tell.
Too Short first album drop I believe was in 1982 or 83.. he basically still looking damn same from the 80s and still doing it.. He most definitely been doing it 40 + years.. i think he came out when Run DMC and rap group Whodini..
The first time I heard Jesus walks was in the movie Jarheads my dad took me to see it in theaters and when I heard that beat come on, my soul left my body
Ye got laughed at because he wasn’t trying to be the next whoever was hot at the time he was original I won’t lie a ghost face or too short over a ye beat would be crazy
