Bun B: SENSETIVE THUG

ethan if you can hear a punch it just means it's a shitty punch, I've seen guys punch in single snare hits at 120 bpm and the end result was indistiguishable from live

Anyway, all this aside, "I wouldn't dare punch in mixed company" is a great line.

if I understand correctly hip hop pretty much began as a live phenomenon --- ie a dj rockin parties and this is before the rapper was even a big part of the equation.

it doesn't have to be an old-timey instrument to play it live, anything that makes a noise works fine --- I mean when you put a beat together on an MPC you pretty much bang shit out live, albeit quantized, right?? --- what does somebody mean when they say a track sounds "live" anyway??

and CLEARLY punches are gonna attenuate the feeling of a track --- you're gonna lose some ooomph in exchange for the extra precision/control.

Like everyone else has said, that's an awesome interview.

OTM. Great interview, so much so that it actually makes me feel guilty for not being familiar with the dude's work (other than "Big Pimpin'", of course).

Given the direction mastering has been moving in the past few years, I have the feeling most music fans' ears are gonna be devolving as time goes on, getting used/inured to uglier and uglier sounds. A few years from now, you'll be able to punch stuff in with all the subtlety of Captain Beefheart's "The Dust Blows Forward 'n' The Dust Blows Back" and no one will give a shit.

http://hiphopwired.com/2010/10/20/bun-b-confirms-teaching-class-at-rice-university-photo/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hiphopwired+%28HipHopWired.com%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

url says it all

http://hiphopwired.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/bunbid.jpg?w=479&h=640

:D

:D :D :D :D

rmde

http://www.drumza.com/images/HotLicksLearnJazzGuitarWith6GreatMastersDVDStandard.jpg

what's your deal

i mean, great that he has the respect of our national educational institutions, i guess

would audit

i mean, great that he has the respect of our national educational institutions, i guess

― j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Thursday, October 21, 2010 6:47 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

it's just a cool thing, asshole

i dunno what youre deal is with me but as someone who spent awhile playing jazz i kinda just rughghheghgh at these things
i like that hes getting deserved attention, if that makes u happy

idk i think it's cool that a legendary rapper is teaching a college class, it's a pretty simple thing

& what does this have to do w/ jazz?

the institutionalization of cool things is not cool

rofl

fight the power

historicism isnt the same thing at all doofus

criticism either

willing to bet there's some awesome "school's not g4ngsta^" post about to happen from deej now that luriqua doesn't post here anymore

was about to say, 'bet theres some really shitty post coming since whiney still posts here' & what do you know

sensitives not thug

i knew my post was sub-whiney anyway

lol "sub whiney"

lol

drown it in olive oil

thread delivers

"when waka's brother died he said fuck school this is disrepectful to waka's brother rmde TWO QUESTION MARKS"

institutionalization of jazz may not be "cool" but it's sort of a necessary substitute for a once-vibrant and competitive scene where the learning & teaching happened on the ground, or it can be

What does 'rmde' mean

RIP hip hop

we still have odd future wolf gang kill em all

& skyzoo

and lil b

i think we're gonna be okay

what is "Hip Hop and Religious Studies" class about anyway? Like 5% Nation stuff?

it's a class so rice's students can feel like they go to a cool college

also rice is a religious school so it might be some sort of lip service

^^^

really wanna see the syllabus tho

wow, if only bun b had you guys around to let him know what a mistake he made!

you guys?? it was just me. man up & name names next time

i dont think its a 'mistake' btw

im more of a 'too bad u couldnt respect him when he was actually making great music' type dude

fyi last time someone named your name you got all deej on em

name display names obv

ok, i'll concede that deej was the only one being a dick. sorry, flu vaccine got my mind in a frenzy ... anyways, not like it, you know, matters at all, but fwiw rice is one of the best universities in the nation, right? not some backwater christian school.

anyways it really speaks more than anything else to your own neuroses if you think anyone who didn't already respect bun b is going to care about this. who is this strawman who only 'respects' rappers when they become faculty members at elite private universities?

i used to have trouble differentiating this guy from soulja boy, and now i respect him

bun b = a lecturer, soulja boy = the dean

soulja boy tellem abt the many ways in which they can help their alma mater grow and prosper