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Re: Ill Communication #6: My Napster Theory

Rae Faith Fiveonethree — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 00:15:35 -0000

Music is powerful in its purest form and throughout the human history has been held sacred and in recorded form connects us to the past. It's interesting in the way that we are able to obtain it, easier and quicker than ever, but I feel alot of it has lost the richness that helped make music timeless. I don't know if that is just in the production or the digitizing. Something that you get from records. The energy that fills a room. Maybe it is my Era, but I feel like I have lost my song collection to old tapes and scratched c.d.'s. Yes I may splurge on a record now and then....but for the most part I listen to music on YouTube when I have access to the Internet. Do I wish I had mp3s of all my favorite songs, yes. Have you heard the quality of some of the mixes...!? From ancestors who shared song around camp fires. To musicians trying to make a living in today's day and age. The same rings true, if it's heartfelt and brings a meaningful message it will stand the test of time. The idea that music can reach around the world is beautiful. The fact that it is able to do so with less impact on the environment, that is worthy of acknowledgement. But I will always treasure the records in my collection that bring my heart and soul peace and I could never exchange them... I guess what I'm trying to say is the great ones matter.

Re: Ill Communication: “Catch Me If You Can”

Noshess Capoccia — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 22:18:00 -0000

I totally agree with you man, I'm constantly conflicted with dropping beats with time stretch boom bap layering even after i play keys over it.... but i love that style its kind of like djing, and you're the selector for the the emcee to do his thing. I as a small time artist live in the gray, which is why everyone as a producer should diversify their pallet and make all kinds of different types of music. I'm currently sampling myself a lot playing guitar and drums. I've been focusing on a few different musical projects that relay on my musical talents and not sampling to kind of help snuff the guilt of me blatantly sampling the drums of ginger baker chopped up over a Grover Washington break. i love sample chopping and flipping! i can't stop but that's why I'm slowing down dropping hip hop to focus on everything else. I've got a project with meta one with bru and one with you one it with a track with illogic and abstract rude over a rare earth sample and a whole bunch of other badass emcees and samples then after that I'm going a lot of other stuff(musically). the article was awesome your progression from wal mart piano to mpc to soft wear to creating your own sound while making beats sampling them and dropping them without clearing the sample. i completely feel you, i took this same path. i could be red handed guilty and I'm not going to stop digging for rare sample flips or even familiar sounds we can all vibe to from all of the years of the culture. dilla pete primo and alchemist all do it on a large scale. but they are kind of in the grey too, but big as hell? anyway great read! ps. i have too many run on sentences in this lol

Re: Ill Communication: “Catch Me If You Can”

Ill Po — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 17:44:55 -0000

Thanks for the feedback. Great angle, really fascinating to hear about the TOOMB catalog. I agree fully in regards to the level of respect hip-hop producers are not shown, however, within another generation or so this lack of respect from gatekeepers will (and already has begun to) fade. With the continued progression of EDM, Trap and every subgenre in between that samples (as influence noted from hip-hop, D&B & techno), eventually our generation will actually have some type of pull with law-makers. Most cutting edge and counterculture genres of any capacity were never respected until enough old people died for that counterculture to become the system itsself. So I guess the solution is to just wait for old people to die.

Re: Ill Communication: “Catch Me If You Can”

Artis Moore — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:50:47 -0000

Great breakdown of the internal arguments and/or compromises that get made in creating this music. Since I have finally decided to make it official and become a publisher of my own music and not just an affiliated writer, the tactics have changed. And I was like you, an anarchist as far as sampling music, digging in the crates. Catching the sniffles due to the dried mold on records in the 25 cent bin was the biggest consequence I expected to suffer. I figured that unless I sold enough copies to get on the sample cops' radar, I was free to do what I wanted to do.

I had the hope that if I moved enough units to get that much attention, there would be a record company waiting to pick up the tab before it turned into De La Soul or Beastie Boys "Paul's Boutique" problems. But, after several times being denied the right to clear many of our early TOOMB songs through BMI due to telling the truth about the samples I used, it is clear that trying to go legit is a hassle many artists can't handle.

I now find myself at the crossroads of weeding through which songs I can take complete ownership of and which ones I must in some way say to 'The Man', "You're right, I just took these whole songs and made them my own so I should pay the people who probably tricked the original artists into signing over their publishing." And if they are messing with Soundcloud artists' posting music, this seems like bottom-of-the-barrel scraping or world-class ass-covering. I mean, it's impossible to make a dollar, much less, 10 cents off of Soundcloud technically, right?

Both of your rules/compromises make good sense. You have been studying and thinking about this for a long time I see. There's no doubt that when you have made an unarguably dope song which has an unarguably dope sample as it's foundation you should pay (or give publicly seen, clearly printed props to the artists that created it). But, as you pointed out, I'd rather pay the man/woman, not the greed-head that acquired the publishing (unless said artist owns their own publishing). And on point number two: Until respect is given to how Hip Hop Producers in general create entirely new sounds from recycled sounds, it IS hard to respect copyright/publishing restrictions. The Hip Hop genre itself it not given the respect it deserves in how music of the past (and present) can get restructured and re-purposed with or without diminishing the meaning of the source material. Here's one example: Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" intro was a carbon copy of a song by Spirit. Jimmy Page is still ducking the lawsuit from this now, decades later. But try to sample a Led Zeppelin riff now and see how far you get that song before you get an E-Mail.

You are right, we can't let this place restrictions on HOW we create music, we can only keep the ramifications in mind. Great read, keep educating.

Re: Kansas Funk – Approach x Reggie B

ill poetic — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:37:49 -0000

Thanks! Much appreciated. We'll have a lot of new music releasing this spring and summer for you as well:)

Re: Kansas Funk – Approach x Reggie B

Amy Jones — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:33:35 -0000

Danny told me to listen to your music. I told him there was no good music out. I like this poetry in motion. "Thursday" I wanted to let you know I'm listening.

Re: “Hourglass” Fan-Made Video Competition

Trevor Langenkamp — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:47:10 -0000

Werd. Some great art is gonna be birthed from this.

Re: Stack the Deck 11/23 @ Troubadour Club w/ Nick Tolford, Ill Poetic, Kim Joyce, The Apes & more

Segmation www.segmation.com — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 07:52:20 -0000

Synesthesia, Love Seeing Numbers in Color! Thanks for sharing this interesting blog.

Re: Private: I Am…

Ill Po — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 23:20:46 -0000

Thank you!
PS - all music including "Suicide Note" is available over at www.illpoetic.bandcamp.com. Thank you for listening. I really appreciate it.

Re: Private: I Am…

Matthew Morpheus Otoide — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 18:16:42 -0000

I'm writing from Nigeria. Just came across some of your work online and i became an instant fan. 'Suicide note' just blew me away. i can't believe you this young cuz you sound like a vet. Peace and God bless.

Re: A Part of the Art: The “Silhouette” Project

Joshua Lint — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:14:18 -0000

Columbus Hip Hop Time Capsule! one word... DOPE...

Re: Ill Poetic Signs Deal w/ Empire Distribution, sets date for EP release

Darrin Cox — Thu, 02 May 2013 23:37:23 -0000

That's great to hear from the O-H to the dime. Great production skills.
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Re: Synesthesia Yellow: The Artists

Lee Koehn — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:52:21 -0000

Awesome work, Jennifer!

Re: Synesthesia Yellow: The Singers

CJ the Cynic — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:36:12 -0000

Yo, I need to send you a better pic.

Re: Ill Poetic Signs Deal w/ Empire Distribution, sets date for EP release

Illpoetic — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 10:25:05 -0000

Thank You. Hope you dig the new stuff too. If not, I'll take "The Beautiful". I was prepared to peak out at that song for a while ;)

Re: Ill Poetic Signs Deal w/ Empire Distribution, sets date for EP release

Iyzymari162326 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:34:05 -0000

Congrats to you Tim! I am soooooooo very happy for you. The Beautiful is still my favorite cut, but I am excited to see what u will come up with next. A long time coming.......a long time coming :)

Re: J Skillz “King of the Jungle” (f. Ill Poetic)

Illpoetic — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:41:06 -0000

Good question. I'm not sure. I don't think he started making noise until after the Top Cats era.

Re: “Synesthesia: The Yellow Movement” New Photos

Illpoetic — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:39:55 -0000

Oh yeah, we're wrapping our final shot this Thursday. Editing is pretty much done. Should be out by the end of the month I imagine.

Re: “Synesthesia: The Yellow Movement” New Photos

Ifelicious — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:20:22 -0000

nice pics! i'm excited to know that there will be a music video for "numb." you know i'm always a fan. :)

Re: J Skillz “King of the Jungle” (f. Ill Poetic)

DJ Chizzad — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 07:05:46 -0000

Was he ever at Top Cats on Wednesday nights?

Re: New Song: Ill Poetic “Autonomy”

Shahidah — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:09:24 -0000

This is what needs to happen to music and society as a whole! People need to stop trying to be something they're not. God gave everyone their own special gifts. It's about time people began to showcase those blessings instead of trying to fit into someone else's mold. Cheers to you Ill Po! I pray this starts a much needed revolution!

Re: Ill Poetic “Pretzel Logic”

SETSOhio — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:18:06 -0000

Nice song. Pretty heavy. Really excited about the album. Can't wait! Those Loosies are pretty awesome too. Really liked the "Drawing Board Rhyme".

PS- Glad your mom is ok. Good luck and God Bless!!!

Re: J. Rawls #Ohio Takeover Mixtape f. Myself, Illogic, L.e, Stalley, MOOD, much more

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Re: Ill Poetic “The World is Ours” Instrumentals (Free Download)

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Re: Citybeat Column: The Hip-Hop (Un)Scene #15 “On To The Next One”

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