I read an Xzibit interview so I knew about his Detroit origins. That Snoop daddy's dogg business is new to me though... Now that I think about it, the dark style is pretty pervasive as well. Chalk my former statements up to personal bias :-) I liked the Esham tune that samples Roy Ayers, its pretty difficult to screw up an Ayers based tune though. Most of the folks I talk to prefer the stuff I described in my previous post, and I come across more local producers doing that style, including some buddies of mine (like Recloose, though he's in NZ now). Maybe me and the dark hop folk's paths just don't cross?
To keep this 313 related, its interesting that nowadays most Detroit hip hop producers & Detroit electronic producers tend to have near identical collections of gear. I consider hip hop to be electronic music (duh?), and most of the time I use the same types of tones to craft all my stuff, hip hop or otherwise - so I don't feel horrible about putting it on the same project. The lines are so blurry now! If all goes well, I'm gonna be dropping some vocals on an upcoming album by a local artist who's more known for techie fare - not gonna spill the beans prematurely! Oh, there's a local rapper dude named Sun on a more soulful vibe as well. He's okay, I like a couple of his tunes. Here's a pop quiz for you: Awesome Dre? Kaos & Maestro? Toodles.>>> JPH. From: "Cyclone Wehner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:01:21 +1100 To: 313 Detroit <[email protected]> Subject: (313) From: Jason Hogans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: >> In the future he wants to be less in the spotlight as a rapper and eventually >> do more production... I guess there's a Detroit style emerging... > > I'd say that a Detroit style of hip hop has been around for a minute, not > necessarily mainstream though. T There's a couple > of other Detroit hip hop flavours running around, but they aren't as > pervasive within the community - and in my opinion they suck. Interesting. I kinda put Slum Village on their own. I have some stuff I still have to play that I got in Detroit but that dark style seems to be associated with Eminem, D12, Proof and Dogmatic and Sicknotes and some others, and they seem partial to rock too. I didn't care for it at first but Em's work is getting more boom to it. I hate that tinny synth sound in some gangsta rap, I dig the booming bass, powerful beats, myself. Incidentally Xzibit grew up in Detroit and left at 10. Snoop Dogg's dad is from Detroit. Betcha didn't know that.
