There is no need for sampling anymore and the entire “technique” has largely run its course in music. Hip hop producers don’t need to be celebrated as if they’re geniuses deserving of endless praise. Most of these “legendary” producers like The Alchemist, Dilla, Preemo, etc. had their heydays in the late 90s-early 2000s when most mainstream rap songs had really obvious samples. They weren’t doing anything innovative but just following the trends that already existed in mainstream music at the time. Now most rap beats are just recycled from older beats from 15-20 years ago (see: Anxiety, Kehlani’s After Hours, The Alchemist reusing his old beats).

Younger audiences are tired of sampling and see no need for it anymore. Rap is losing popularity as a genre anyway. Zoomers are largely embracing classical music because they want to see beauty re-introduced into society.

Really wish people would stop celebrating hip hop producers as if they’re geniuses deserving of praise. Most of these “legendary” producers like Al, Dilla, Preemo, etc. had their heydays in the late 90s-early 2000s when most mainstream rap songs had really obvious samples. They weren’t doing anything innovative but just following the trends that already existed in mainstream music at the time. Now most rap beats are either completely recycled from older beats or are made by three or four notes on a synth.

Sampling is the worst thing to ever happen to music.

Not only does it make music more generic but it also destroys the communal nature of music. Classical music takes an entire orchestra to perform. Folk music was meant to be played live with audience participation. Sampling makes the producer an absolute oligarch which is furthers the alienation of the working-class from music.

So why is sampling so celebrated by academic elites?

In the 1940s the CIA launched the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a think-tank designed to channel funds into the anti-Soviet left. They funded artists who appeared "leftist" but were actually anti-Marxist and anti-proletarian. This included propping up hideous and meaningless modern "art" as a means of alienating the working-class from the arts and ensuring art could only be appreciated by pompous cultured elites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD49vdreggw

The CIA and the academic elites whom it funds have been behind the rise of sample-based music for this exact same reason. This “music” is disoriented, disorganized, and ugly and creates a sense of resentment and nihilism in its listeners. The same people who think J Dilla (or The Alchemist) pushing buttons on a sampler was “innovative” are the same people who think Jackson Pollock splattering paint on a canvas was “innovative.” And this is precisely why cultured elites promote rap and sample-based "music": they want to demoralize you and alienate you so you see the world as nothing but ugliness and lose all faith in your fellow man.

Art under real socialism is about celebrating the beauty of everyday working people and festering a sense of solidarity and brotherhood. The USSR made beautiful music. China bans rap and gets its school children learning real music, namely classical. They don’t give kids MPCs to learn how to “sample” but give them actual instruments. That’s because real socialism isn’t about loving the gutter but about advancing humanity