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12-01-2008, 08:27 AM
| | | | HIP HOP BASS GROOVES
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You guys may give me a ton of s**t for saying this but sometimes I really dig old hip hop grooves. I know that most of the time their isn't even a real bass in the mix but I still love it. For example, DR. DRE's the Chronic album is full of insane beats. Please check it out before you judge. I ussually listen to groove bands like MMW or Charlie Hunter and stuff like that. Does anyoine else think that some (obviously not all) hip hop beats are cool. I often find myself in my basement jammin along with them. |
12-01-2008, 08:33 AM
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I agree completely. |
12-01-2008, 08:37 AM
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12-01-2008, 08:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: the Netherlands, Amsterdam | | | tbh, i only dig a handful of hiphop basslines, and those are only basslines of the earlier days of hiphop. the basslines nowadays seem so uninspired and repetitive. but then again, i think the "clap" is way overused in todays songs. |
12-01-2008, 08:42 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: San Antonio, TX | | | IMHO Some hip hop beats are cool even though I'm not a hip hop fan perse'. It's a generational thing for me. I just gave my son a crate of old 70's R&B LP's and he went nuts. He loves'em. He sampled a Denise Williams cut added some drums and had a friend put a rap on it and it sounded pretty nice. Dr. Dre is also a fan of 70's R&B and used a lot samples from that era.
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12-01-2008, 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by DWBass  Hip Hop basslines are basically R&B basslines. Just rapping instead of singing on top. | DITTO.....My son asked me "what does R&B stands for?". I told him "Real Bands"....
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12-01-2008, 11:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: East Coast, USA | | | almost all dre's 90s beats were p-funk. i cant blame him for sampling those basslines. |
12-01-2008, 12:41 PM
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12-01-2008, 12:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Florida | | | A good grove is a good groove, even if they are often lessened by asinine rapping on top. Off the top of my head, Ton Loc's "Cheeba Cheeba" comes to mind. I wonder who played bass on that track?
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12-01-2008, 01:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Torrance, CA | | | How come no one's mentioned Flea's bass line in Young MC's "Bust a Move"? A good example of a non-pfunk sampled line. |
12-01-2008, 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Infernal Affair How come no one's mentioned Flea's bass line in Young MC's "Bust a Move"? A good example of a non-pfunk sampled line. | That's a good example, and as a plus, the lyrics don't make me 
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12-01-2008, 02:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Wellington, New Zealand | | | So many great lines and grooves in the Hip Hop genre! I always come back to The Chronic/2001 if I ever wanna jam a mean line or 2! |
12-01-2008, 02:36 PM
|  | America's Favorite Hot Dog! | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CHI/NWI | | | Cyrpess Hill and Wu Tang are as big an influence on me as Geezer and Frank Bello are. I don't care for most of today's rappers, their tracks lack a little musical substance. Give me The Roots, Jurassic 5, Tribe Called Quest, hell, I'll take The Ghetto Boys over the stuff that plays in clubs now.
(Nerdy side note) I recently found a compilation called "Shaolin Soul". It's all of the original songs that Wu-Tang sampled for the 36 Chambers album. Good stuff! |
12-01-2008, 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Muusers tbh, i only dig a handful of hiphop basslines, and those are only basslines of the earlier days of hiphop. the basslines nowadays seem so uninspired and repetitive. but then again, i think the "clap" is way overused in todays songs. | LOVE the old Hip Hop Basslines.
HATE the "clap"! It burns! It Burns! 
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12-01-2008, 03:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: new hampshire | | | i dig the bass line in skee-lo's "i wish". remember that song?
and wu-tang, and older snoop and dre, nwa, lots of older rap, for newer stuff it's like... mr. lif, aesop rock, mc chris, a local dude called el-a-kwentz and his cohorts. used to go to this semi-political rap show every friday at this bar.
i like body count quite a bit, and i personally regard that as rap music even though it's a metal/rock sounding band.
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12-20-2008, 11:54 PM
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12-21-2008, 11:18 AM
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To me that sums up hip hop bass lines, incredibly simple, but its like a james brown track, theres that tension when the bass disappears, you want it back.
check wefunkradio for some cool rnb and hip hop basslines
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