How many mixes have we heard where the signature is the sample and the chaff is the stuff surrounding it?
That's a great point. One song the article mentioned that epitomized this was the Puff Daddy 'Missing you' song. The sentiment was worthwhile, and I can also see it within the musical tradition of rap and the soundsystem aesthetic where musicians develop their MCing skills by rapping over over a sampled loop in their bedroom/the garage etc. so to build a whole song over a single looped sample with a minimum of additional production elements actually served a musical function of evoking nostalgia for 'the way things used to be' when the people in question were young and just learning how to rap. But it ended up sounding like a complete lift of someone else's song, and while the licensing was probably taken care of in this case it's spawned thousands of imitations with even less musical novelty.
That's a great point. One song the article mentioned that epitomized this was the Puff Daddy 'Missing you' song. The sentiment was worthwhile, and I can also see it within the musical tradition of rap and the soundsystem aesthetic where musicians develop their MCing skills by rapping over over a sampled loop in their bedroom/the garage etc. so to build a whole song over a single looped sample with a minimum of additional production elements actually served a musical function of evoking nostalgia for 'the way things used to be' when the people in question were young and just learning how to rap. But it ended up sounding like a complete lift of someone else's song, and while the licensing was probably taken care of in this case it's spawned thousands of imitations with even less musical novelty.