“…they should make a law to ban sampling as then all the real producers would come out”

Yep. That’s a real gem Young Joc’s old producer Nitti dropped in an interview with Hip Hop DX the other day.

HHDX: Why do you choose not to sample that much? Is it a personal choice?
Nitti: Because it takes up too much time and to me sampling is not original. I don’t get impressed by no producer that samples a lot. To me you are taking something that was already a master recording and you are using someone else’s ideas from scratch. To me being a producer is coming up with something from scratch. Don’t sample nobody’s melodies, make your own. I get in there and make my beats from scratch all the way. I don’t get impressed by sampling Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, that is A, B, C shit to me.

HHDX: When you say time I assume you mean for clearance?
Nitti: Yeah that takes both time and money. You know if you sample a record and Earth, Wind and Fire are sampled, they are probably going to look for 75% of that record and they actually deserve 100% as it is their record, as it is their song behind it. You took something that belonged to them that sounded good before you started recording it. I think they should make a law to ban sampling as then all the real producers would come out and until then all the producers that sample, I will respect them but they do not impress me as they are doing nothing new.

Who’s Nitti to say something like this? This is going to create quite the backlash, or at least it should. Does he not know where hip hop came from? Last I heard, it didn’t come from repetitive synths. But hey, every man’s entitled to his opinion.

Check out the full interview here.