Why are there so many hands involved in hip hop? Multiple writers and producers for every song, I mean look at the list of personnel on any modern hip hop record, it's absurd. Wouldn't the record stand to gain from not having 40 people involved making their inputs? Instrumentally speaking Hip Hop is at its infancy, it is nowhere near as sophisticated as other genres out there, where a lot of the time the song writing comes from 1 person and then you have the other band members playing the actual instruments. So why? It's not like a producer is the equivalent of a band member.
Look at Atrocity Exhibition, Bottomless Pit and Blonde, arguably some fan favorite hip hop albums from last year, then look at the creative input, fairly minimal all things considered. Is there actually mass appeal in having all of these names attached to a record? It just muddles the cohesion.
>look at the list of personnel on any modern hip hop record
look at the list of personnel on any modern record**
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Julian Sullivan
>Look at Atrocity Exhibition, Bottomless Pit and Blonde, arguably some fan favorite hip hop albums from last year,
blonde isn't hip hop bottomless pit isn't hip hop danny brown sure
>Why are there so many hands involved in hip hop? because lots of money is involved in mainstream hip hop records and they hire the best in the business to make sure everything goes smoothly
Joshua Myers
I fucked up on Blonde, but Bottomless Pit is absolutely a hip hop record.
>because lots of money is involved in mainstream hip hop records and they hire the best in the business to make sure everything goes smoothly
>>Doesn't sound very artistic. you realize without funding from rich families majority of art wouldn't be made right?
Robert Walker
>Look at Atrocity Exhibition ok... 2/3 of the songs produced by paul white, most of the songs that aren't features just say written by danny brown and paul white aka not an example of what you were talking about above
Isaac Brown
in fact now that i look closer at the track list, all the writing credits are either the person rapping on the song, the person who produced the song, or the musician who was sampled
Joshua Gray
Funding is not the same as a publisher telling the artist they need them to make the record a certain way that appeases them.
Hudson Reyes
it is if you're a teenager who sees the industry in some really black and white money vs artistic integrity kind of way, which is what op sounds like
