The Hustle Simmons Report

This has inspired to post all the music and artist who shaped, your truly's music career. Whether it was inspiration, healthy competition, these guys always pushed me forward, they were visionaries, simple as that. I actually have almost every sample used in hip-hop, and to hear how they manipulated and assimilated it into their own abilities and ear, it made me have that much more respect for them. Not like Puff taking songs everyone knows, these guys were digging finding artists like Brother Jazz McDuff, Ohio Players, Billy Squire, and many off-the-beaten-path albums & artists from the 60's and 70's.

Pete Rock was one such innovator. With his use of obscure samples, and his ability to turn it into something completely different, made him a legend, his mixing approach with filtering, paramixing, and sample placement, still has him ahead of many producers out here (I dont even count these jerks currently)...I used to sit in my dorm room and litsten to this album like my life depended on it..how he kept using the Long Red breakbeat in almost every song, but he made it WORK!! My first inductee...Mantronix...the man responsible for inspiring me to be a producer. His mastery of the TR-808 in the mid-80's was unheard of (don't know what a TR-808 is? It's the drum machine you hear in every song made by a Southern rap artist Lil Jon, Gucci Mane, and many others. Beastie Boy's "Licenced to Ill" drums was made with an 808, it was the facilitator of the big "bass sound" outta Miami (Thanks to Uncle Luke & The 2 Live Crew)


Mind you, these beats were from the mid 80's...
MUSIC MADNESS - Peep his technique at layering drum programming OVER the Headhunters breakbeat sample, his experimentation with velocities, dynamics, quantinization, and cutting edge technologies of his time..he was a wunderkind..


GET STUPID FRESH - Off his 1st album..simple, excellent drum programming with use of just a beat, pure, uncut hip-hop...Mannie Fresh worships this dude


WHO IS IT - One of my all-time favorite Mantronix tracks..this was futuristic for its time...I love Marley Marl, Herby LoveBug and others but, Mantronix was the best, hands down


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