Or maybe Al-kaaliqu just didnt no how to arrange into a hip hop song so he reached out to someone like Boi-1 da
Did you even watch the vid?
The sample was already sounding like the final version in the first place lol. Its not like he did some crazy re-arrangement that nobody could have thought of.
Its obvious Al-kaaliqu did all the work. That's the side of hip hop i can't stand at all. Even in the most obvious cases, people will snatch the credit where they can and don't say shit till somebody finds out.
Yea he got mentioned but its still boi-1da getting all the spotlight for unexplainable reasons. And you see this shit quite a lot in this genre.
Sometimes i feel like hip hop is so far away from integrity and ethics its not even funny anymore. And people don't wanna admit cuz apparently you lose your backbone as soon as that first paycheck rolls in.
Seriously i bet hip hop is the only genre you see this happening so often.
Somehow the term "grinding hard" turned into "snatch credit, do everything to cover it up, act stupid about it, get money fast". Not saying boi-1da is doing this but we all know plenty of storys where such ****ery happenend...the thing is nobody wants to talk about it...and then new people in the game wonder why they're getting played...sure you get played if nobody is willing to address this topic. Its not the player its the game that is so ****ed up.
Backstabber mentality for real.
And don't quote me and come with silly shit like "only the strongest can survive in this game, it ain't for everybody".
Being strong and outdoing your competition and losing your morality over some green paper are two completely different things. "Making it" in this game doesn't mean you need to backstab your oopponent to win his spot...again different thing. Its just that a lot of people in hip hop get this shit mixed up.
90% of the records are made like this...
Still doesn't change the fact that there is a lot of this type of ****ery going on in hip hop. And its because of peoples mindset thinking its alright to "snatch" credit and put your own name on the record when infact, you didn't do shit except for the ****ing snare roll. Again i don't talk about boi-1da here but you see this quite often.
Sometimes hip hop heads are just on some delusional bubble world shit for real. Its like with timbo back then...
everybody outside of hip hop realized that all dude was doing is sample a ethnic loop from some unknown act and take all the credit for it. No work nothing...just straight up jack that shit. Still...hip hop heads didn't know what they all where talking about...after all thats "hip hop" right?
"yes he did take the samples without crediting them, but he put his own twist on it!". I love this line lol.
Its the mindset of todays hip hop people that make this ****ery happen. Dudes got no respect for the art anymore.