Big Doomy String Samples On RnB Records

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Listened to the Christina Milian ft Yng Jeezy single, and yes I like it, but the talk about Aaliyah and so on yesterday had me thinking back to '00/'01 and all the jittery/ravey/squelchy/odd background stuff that producers were putting into R'n'B then. Those production choices seemed to give access to a much wider emotional range - more vulnerability, swooniness, dread, joy, sass - than sticking another portentiously cinematic string riff on the back of your tune.

No?

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Kanye did something really special though, something I've not heard much of in hip hop, which is celebrating the gold digger for being resourceful and canny and also hott - the song's totally in love with the archetype it describes.

Young Jeezy, er, does not do this.