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So B-Legit comes out with a southern style disc and all the sudden the entire bay is BITING lil jon? Nobody in the Bay is making anything that sounds like lil jon and thank god for that! Im so fucking tired of that Wildin out in the club WHAT! WHAT! WHAT! WHAT! WHAT! SHIT. And whats the fascination with lil jon anyways. He uses simple 808 kicks and the same tired ass clap all the time, with his punk ass screaming the entire cd. People want to bite that? $hort was using the same kicks in the mid 80's jr. By the way, do u know who put lil jon on????.....................................................strangely enough it was that boy Todd Shaw....take your biting whining to the southern room
Back when $hort moved to Atl. (i heard rumors he was pretty much pushed out the Bay too, but i know nothing about that for sure) he made a disc called Nationwide: Independance Day and had a track w/ lil jon & the eastside boys. Im pretty sure lil jon was doing nathane at that point. True, he was grindin for so so def for a long time but that wasnt going to go anywhere. If JD wanted him on, he wouldve been on. Then after the $hort disc it was pretty much a collabo from then on. Im not saying $hort gave jon all he needed but he was always there as a partner and promoter to lil jon. $hort knew anything and everything about doing it big cuz he was a godfather to that shit. Then he moved to the A and pretty much did it all over again from a different angle.
This has nothing to do with B-Legit you moron. Listen to the bay shit that they play on KMEL man.
I'm not a Lil Jon fan by any means - I can't stand his music. I respect that he's carved his own niche though. His music just aint my cup of tea. I've followed this Bay Area shit for 15 years and I know what's going on. I use my ears. You ask if people wanna bite Lil Jon... YES THEY DO! You know why? It's the same reason producers out here who never sampled in their whole lives started sampling after Kanye West got big. It's the same reason local rap artists tell they're producers to "Make some Dr. Dre shit" or "Make some of that Neptunes shit". It's the same reason you have fifty-eleven (that means a lot) Rick Rock imposters in the bay area right now. It's the same reason every producer in America with a sampler sampled that clap from "In Da Club" or that snare the Neptunes used on most of their early hits. They want to sound mainstream - imbecile!
If you only knew who you were talking to....
I'm not a Lil Jon fan by any means - I can't stand his music. I respect that he's carved his own niche though. His music just aint my cup of tea. I've followed this Bay Area shit for 15 years and I know what's going on. I use my ears. You ask if people wanna bite Lil Jon... YES THEY DO! You know why? It's the same reason producers out here who never sampled in their whole lives started sampling after Kanye West got big. It's the same reason local rap artists tell they're producers to "Make some Dr. Dre shit" or "Make some of that Neptunes shit". It's the same reason you have fifty-eleven (that means a lot) Rick Rock imposters in the bay area right now. It's the same reason every producer in America with a sampler sampled that clap from "In Da Club" or that snare the Neptunes used on most of their early hits. They want to sound mainstream - imbecile!
If you only knew who you were talking to....
In all seriousness though, it aint about the bay being southern. It's just the choices in sounds the producers are making when they make their beats. A lot of these cats are putting their own twist on what Lil Jon has done but a lot of these cats outright bite the man. The radio plays it cause it sounds like something mainstream, because it sounds like Lil Jon.
Lil Jons sound is pretty amateurish musically and is easily emulated. Plus ... IT'S SUCCESSFUL. Anything successful in the music business that's easily reproducable will get bitten QUICK. You don't see cats biting Scott Storch though. Cause THAT CAT is a musician. A lot of these new booty producers couldn't play chop sticks if their lives depended on it, lol...
peace dawg
Lil Jons sound is pretty amateurish musically and is easily emulated. Plus ... IT'S SUCCESSFUL. Anything successful in the music business that's easily reproducable will get bitten QUICK. You don't see cats biting Scott Storch though. Cause THAT CAT is a musician. A lot of these new booty producers couldn't play chop sticks if their lives depended on it, lol...
peace dawg