Comments on: “Never Show Your Hand…”

By: jul

jul — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:35:00 +0000

Funny, considering he’s stated not caring about being sampled himself, in his Wire interview from some months back…

By: Meth Green

Meth Green — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:32:08 +0000

since madlib famously uses no computer, www or email, this article is highly suspect.

and since hip-hop heads themselves should be promoting albums rather than getting them shut down, the article is a little worse than suspect.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:40:35 +0000

Link to the samples? Anyone?

By: Mr. Rogers

Mr. Rogers — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:16:12 +0000

Preem gave a legitimate reason for these things on one of the Gangstarr albums which talks about how major labels and their publishing companies have representative “snitches” who search the internet and try to find if a song from their catalog was sampled, then look for payment from that artist. I wouldn’t be telling anybody either, if you know, you know, but I ain’t telling nobody.

By: J Bigglesworth

J Bigglesworth — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:26:58 +0000

cosign w/ lightednight & Franchise. I’m trying to figure out what you cats are so angry and bent out of shape about, honestly. Because the guy doesn’t want his samples put out there to the public? The same rare samples that HE found and flipped..to have you cats on some “oooh shit” the 1st time you heard it? But it’s not quite right unless he reveals the samples sources, right? lol Jesus Christ. David D. , i understand where you’re coming from…but honestly man, the logic behind it is simple. I’ve heard Madlib’s record collection is pretty extensive…Premo, Pete, etc….and i’ve read interviews where they pride themselves on coming across certain records they have obtaned from the other side of the pond….and once they get that piece in the lab and do what they do….who are we to get salty b/c they request they not be available to the public? seriously….we sit here and right click on a link that displays original sources from 1/2 their catalog…d/l it in 3 minutes…and….smh.

Don’t get me wrong…i have a ton of orignals from some of my fav. producers…got goosebumps when i heard what they did….but to complain about them not wanting the originals posted to the world? c’mon man lol no disrepect to those complaining…but, who are you and what part did you play in the production process?

good post tho, peace

By: 500K flea

500K flea — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:06:49 +0000

Why the fuck would you post all the original samples used in a song? That kind of ruins the joy of listening because now I know what was used to create the song (which I don’t care to know anyway as long as the shit bangs!). Plus, all the bitch-ass biting-ass clone producers will start digging trying to create some wack-ass half-ass “heat” if they know where your gems come from. If any of you truly listen to Madlib at all then you would know that he gets extremely vocal about “wack-beat-jackers”, so I don’t understand what the fuck all the fuss is about.

SHUT THE FUCK UP & LISTEN TO THE MUSIC!!!

By: solo

solo — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:51:02 +0000

Speaking of Madlib if anyone here lives in St. Louis or Chicago I am working with Red Bull to bring Madlib in for a production workshop and discussion about a program called Red Bull Music Academy. Click the links for the e-Flyer.

Chicago
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n56/wesallmond/RBMA_Chicago/Madlib-RBMA-Chicago_Final_Horizonta.jpg

St. Louis
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n56/wesallmond/RBMA_STL/Madlib-RBMA-STL_Final_Horizontal-1.jpg

By: Gottyâ„¢

Gottyâ„¢ — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:54:45 +0000

Yo…I was literally considering the whole “gay and hip-hop” argument the other day in my head. I got a few thoughts…but a lot more things to do today. Definitely gonna try to come back to it either here or in a whole new post.

By: AmpGeez a.k.a. The Bachelor

AmpGeez a.k.a. The Bachelor — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:33:55 +0000

The only thing that is disapointing about the TSS community is despite how intelligent the muscial commentary can beâ€¦the homophobia is crazy in the commentsâ€¦
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Hip-Hop itself is homophobic by nature. Yeah, I know it’s insensitive for people to throw around derrogatory remarks about gay people, I know personally, when I use the term gay in the comments, it’s usually to describe anyone who’s overly sensitive or something that’s feminine. “No Homo’s” are just a way to avoid jokes from the room if You inadvertantly say something “questionable”. I’m not gonna say the cliche thing like “I don’t hate gay people, I have gay friends” because I dont. But at the same time, I have nothing against gay people & when I do throw a “Homotional” out there, it’s not to belittle someone’s sexual preference or to consciously disrespect any gay people who may be reading My comments (though that thought has passed My mind before). Forgive Me if I’m rambling, I’m slightly impaired at the moment (“Sippin Coughee”lol), but I realize that sometimes My remarks can be insensitive & I’m gonna try to fall back on that. But this is a public forum & some people just think & speak like that. This is Hip-Hop, You gotta have thick skin.

By: j

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:25:28 +0000

if you read the full contents of the blog in question, it sounds like it wasn’t Madlib, but a rep from stones throw and also they didn’t ask that the sampleset be taken down, but rather that madvillian’s name be taken off it. It also makes it clearer that it’s a clearance issue not so much a “don’t show my tricks thing”

I kinda wonder how much Madlib is even aware of all this stuff, while he personally is taking all the heat.