Quote Originally Posted by Kawaii Ryűkishi View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Shattered Dreamer View Post
90% of his hit singles feature sampling of other great songs eg. Stronger featured heavy sampling of the Daft Punk song Harder,Better Faster, Stronger. Sampling does not take talent just basic computing skills. As a musician I'm highly critical of sampling its basically piggybacking on other musicians talents. I'm not looking to argue this point on sampling by the way I can't be swayed.
Guess I'll just say that I patently disagree, then.
And I am very much with Kawaii Ryukishi here. Sampling doesn't take talent? Listen to Paul's Boutique by Beastie Boys, Since I Left You by The Avalaches or Entroducing by DJ Shadow and then say that. The latter two (and much of the former) were entirely built from samples and are brilliant. And countless great songs have used samples over the years. You say won't be swayed? Fine, you don't have to like it. But to say sampling doesn't require any talent is complete nonsense.

I do wish Kanye West would let the music do the talking sometimes anyway. As Breine said, he doesn't need to act like this.