Hehe, ja, im Prinzip kann man heutzutage unglaublich viel mit Samples (aus legalen Quellen) machen, das stimmt auf jeden Fall.
Ich bin ehrlich gesagt nicht so tief im Thema drin.
Es scheint mir (oberflächlich betrachtet) so, als ob eine bestimmte, ich nenns mal "kulturelle Art des Samplens im Sinne von Zitaten" nicht mehr so möglich ist, wie in den 80igern (Stichwort Golden Age des Hip Hops).
Dieser Artikel fragt z.B. in dem Zusammenhang:
"Did the Decline of Sampling Cause the Decline of Political Hip Hop?
Legal and financial limitations have put a damper on a musical tool that once served as an important way for rappers to connect with musical and social history."
"It’s notable, for instance, that at the same time sampling was curbed by new copyright enforcement, we also witnessed the sunset of rap’s “golden age,” a time when dropping socially or politically engaged lyrics didn’t automatically relegate artists to “the underground.” As someone who studies and teaches about hip hop (and who’s been listening to the music for 25 years), I'm not sure that’s a coincidence. After all, sampling provided an important engagement with musical and political history, a connection that was interrupted by
Grand Upright and the cases after it, coinciding with a growing disconnect between rap music and a sense of social responsibility.
That’s not to say sampling always resulted in the lyrics that educated, even during the “golden age.” The Beastie Boys’ 1989 album
Paul’s Boutique, a sampling classic, wasn’t exactly concerned with social edification. But as Hank Shocklee, pioneering member of Public Enemy’s production team The Bomb Squad, told me, having open access to samples often did significantly impact artists’ lyrical content: “A lot of the records that were being sampled were socially conscious, socially relevant records, and that has a way of shaping the lyrics that you’re going to write in conjunction with them.” When you take sampling out of the equation, Shocklee said, much of the social consciousness disappears because, as he put it, “artists’ lyrical reference point only lies within themselves.”
When that lyrical reference point can be rooted in previous compositions, the creative possibilities become astonishing. Take the first 30 seconds of Public Enemy’s song “
Can’t Truss It,” off their 1991 album
Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black. Lyrically, the song argues that in order to understand the present, African Americans have to understand the past—they’ve got to “get to the roots” and grapple with the historical legacy of slavery. To reinforce the song’s message, there’s an entire storyline of samples underpinning the lyrics, beginning with Richard Pryor’s
voice saying, “It started in slave ships.” Then, immediately following, is a distorted sample of Alex Haley, author of
Roots(hence the connection to the song’s focus on “roots”),
describing the horrors of the Middle Passage. That clip then cuts to a sample of Malcolm X’s
voice, arguing for violent resistance, which ultimately foreshadows Chuck D’s vengeance later in the song when he raps, “Still I plan to get my hands around the neck of the man with the whip.” All throughout these opening moments, we hear churning helicopter blades, providing a sonic connection to the present and a reminder of the ways in which police and military power are still used to maintain the hierarchies that trace back to slavery."
Legal and financial limitations have put a damper on a musical tool that once served as an important way for rappers to connect with musical and social history.
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