Kanye never said he had beats like J Dilla

In this video I chat about using inspiration and then forgetting it. Also I react to a few of the comments and discuss 90's production versus modern production.
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TONY BLACK is a Grammy-winning music producer, mixer/engineer & songwriter/musician. He has contributed to recordings totaling more than 80 million units sold or downloaded.
He won a GRAMMY AWARD for his contribution to the album “THE DIARY OF ALICIA KEYS” for BEST R&B ALBUM.
He also mixed and recorded “RIDE OR DIE” on the Grammy-winning album JAY-Z “HARD KNOCK LIFE VOL.2”

[@xjtreex]

You're a hiphop channel now whether you like it or not

[@w12mcee]

Yep, he got his timberlands on

[@capitalghost]

Haha…

[@kingvintage2227]

facts .. lol .. he got all the right exact credentials that we care about

[@tomblaze2]

Past 5 videos have him a shoe 👞 in for hip hop KZbin channel of the year 😅

[@GlassTarantulah]

Tony mixed Ghostface Killah's 'Ironman'.. got damn 💎💎

[@kingvintage2227]

one best mixed albums from wu.. I think it had a nice in between of vintage wu and future wu mixing wise

[@djtrakakadrunkpoet8598]

Yooooo you mixed Ironman . That’s one my favorite Wu releases. Black Jesus , Wildflower, Fish , Daytona 500 sheesh .

[@Harlem-Instrumental]

& his name is Tony.

[@madblessings]

Please never stop provide this type of quality insight 🙌🏾✨

[@TonyBlackNYC]

Feel free to comment any things you might want to hear about in the future...I'll be looking. thanks for the views. tb

[@unc1589]

Thanks Tony for the backstories on gear and sessions. Too bad on that Linn Drum thing. But yeah we can use more 90s sessions talk. The same realities still apply. One guy innovates and the rest follow. I just found out (off topic) that the drum loop for Rihanna‘s “umbrella”, a massive hit, was a loop from Logic! “Vintage Funk kit 03.” I pulled it up and yep. Still there! A pure lift from a stock DAW loop. Let’s talk about creativity and the different mindsets for making music. I’ve heard pure hit production just given away for free on the internet. The model, the reason for making music is so different today. But you can’t tell me the old model (Find an artist, build them up with good songs exclusively, launch) Doesn’t work anymore. (Like the first Chris Brown album from 20 years ago.) People just stopped for some strange reason. Maybe you can touch on that kinda thing.

[@wigmaster7894]

can you do a video specifically about the madlib sp-303 compressor sound from the madvillain / jaylib era? maybe breaking down why that cheap compressor sounds so good. or why you don't like it. I know you said you don't want to do videos like that but it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on it.

[@kingvintage2227]

Probably 😂 because madlib is toying with it

[@wigmaster7894]

@@kingvintage2227 sounds like you've never used one. I think it has to do with the 303 sampling in a compressed format but I wanted to hear tony's thoughts on it.

[@subufubu]

​@@wigmaster7894I think he means it sounds good because it's Madlib using it. At least that's how I took his comment.

[@wigmaster7894]

@@subufubu yeah I just disagree. I’ve had one and I know people that have one and you can get the same sound as madlib if you’re sampling off records too. I’ve also owned a 404 og, 404a and 606. The 404 is linear and the 303 is a compressed format. They sound different.

[@mikulamusic]

I discovered your channel today!! Maaaaan what great content you’re sharing with the world!!! Also nice to see how your channel is taking of since you’re teaching us about 90’s hiphop and RnB production techniques. Hope you will stay in this genre for years to come 😁 lotta love from Amsterdam 👊🏼

[@TonyBlackNYC]

welcome...love Amsterdam. Little known...I recorded some of Diary of Alicia Keys at a studio there...very cool place but I can't remember the name of it, very modern.

[@snubdawg1386]

thanks for reacting to my comment ...i always had the problem that the sound of my mixes changed too much after trying to get competitive loudness with a mastering limiter...nowadays i use clippers in the mix and loudness is no issue anymore ...i always hesitated when an artist or their mixing guy asked me to send them the tracks of my beat to mix the song without me and when i did it i was never satisfied with the result, because it sounded way too digital/harsh and off from my original idea ....90s hip hop mixing and mastering engineers deserve so much more appreciation and respect ...thank you for sharing these stories and information!

[@obo_9942]

As someone who just got into producing roughly 4 years ago (but have spent hours every single day at it), this is advice I could have used in the very beginning! I was set on not trying to sound like anyone else or copy/borrow and just kind of figure it out almost organically as I go. This has created some awesome music that I wouldn't have come up with otherwise but I think it's super important to understand "the base" of whatever genre you're in. In the beginning, I felt like It was very easy to look at the blank slate and just start playing around with the tools I had from a standpoint of curiosity. But after you put in the hours - that tends to fade a bit and having a base to fall back on so that those creative ideas can come up seems much more important to me now. Good stuff, really enjoying your channel - just subscribed

[@DanielIvan707]

These are great! Thanks Tony.

[@bartboguski635]

Thank You Tony...Much appriciated❤

[@Harlem-Instrumental]

Your right about Hip-Hop artists wanting to be unique back in the 90s. Now in this current Type-Beat era, most sound like they all watched the same "How to make a beat" videos & put out as much stuff as they can based on what's popular without their own flavor. I wish everybody had musical amnesia. Peace!

[@illfunk1967]

Great insight Tony

[@scarloopa]

yessir, keep this content up.

[@jasonwilliamson1396]

I agree with the copying bit. I have always been chasing the sonics of "Friends" by Whodini. I think recorded at the studio across from Zomba in London, maybe Battery?

[@jaypkock]

Music is about expressing yourself and striving forward, the only reason to ever look back is if you feel its moving in the wrong direction, so i feel like us that hates on modern hip hop just don't look at the right artists, because all eras have stale artists not innovating and moving out of their comfort zones, theres always artists doing the opposite - there's always a forward motion - as a listener you have to search em up - as a creator you have to move on up, plainly

[@illfunk1967]

How many producers copied/ influenced by DJ Premier and they never found their own sound.. so I there’s part of this that I understand Tony.

[@TonyBlackNYC]

Premier is legendary.

[@raykane2063]

Hi Tony did you ever think about making a Hip Hop sample pack engineers have the best ears.

[@TonyBlackNYC]

it has been a thought

[@djray2705]

Probably the most handsome channel host in hip hop rn tbh 😅

[@TonyBlackNYC]

I concur.

[@Dawless1]

Hey Tony can you shed some light on an extremely mysterious subject for me in the electronic Bass department. I love bass Old School Bass music like TECH MASTER PEB or Bass mechanic, BASS Cube , THE BASS THAT ATE MIAMI all that kind of good stuff.. My question is how did they make that bass? I understand a sequencer is involved maybe a sine wave machine but it's like magic for me a big mystery. Thanks Tony stay out of that stinking Heat

[@kingvintage2227]

I know thing ... that sp 1200 was involved with Miami bass .. with the 808 of coarse ...

[@Behnan]

Somehow you remind me of Kevin Costner and Bruce Willis … at the same time

[@TonyBlackNYC]

you're supposed to say a young version

[@loscorinthians]

Have you ever worked with Mike Dean? Yall two would be a artists dreamteam

[@TonyBlackNYC]

No I haven't but I like the idea

[@illfunk1967]

Try living in London… I’d prefer NY’s summer

[@drucartier2164]

I was in the studio when Kanye did Drunk Hot Girls…

[@chinbeats6551]

I hate when people say "90s beats", I don't put any year or age on sound.

[@kingvintage2227]

yo I got like 15,000 records any person saying that kinda nonsense you should pray for them lol

[@b3astmedia173]

keeping things esoteric . i'd really like to know what the secret spatializer was that's mentioned

[@TonyBlackNYC]

Behringer Edison

[@b3astmedia173]

thanks ,tony! sound on sound 1994 review can't seem to decide whether its the emperor's new robes or legit piece of kit. intriguing. kinda tempted to seek one out.

[@TonyBlackNYC]

I don't think its the grail. Lots of new toys do the same thing now.

[@b3astmedia173]

​@@TonyBlackNYC sure, i'm a sucker for obscure "retro" gear. i'll miss that one. the grail would probably be more of some kind of gnostic flavor; like the ability to laser focus on creative ideas, not ever let one go to waste, learn how to best synergize them, keep them in a kind of easily accessible database and pursue them to fruition with superhuman dedication.

[@TonyBlackNYC]

@@b3astmedia173 laser focus is the grail

[@djtrakakadrunkpoet8598]

I’d like to send u some music sir .

[@maximustheproducer]

Salute 🫡

[@Laze-Mz]

nice video

[@osi9567]

The width thing is because samplers in the 90's were mostly mono

[@TonyBlackNYC]

its a difficult thing to explain...maybe I'll get back to it in a future vid

[@Aqua_1014]

11:15 was that the Desper Spatializer? or a Dim-D? Thanks for the vids!

[@TonyBlackNYC]

behringer edison

[@Aqua_1014]

@@TonyBlackNYC Awesome, thank you! Love learning about this stuff :)

[@eddiemoney6625]

Was the spatilizer made by Behringer?

[@TonyBlackNYC]

Behringer Edison

[@eddiemoney6625]

@@TonyBlackNYC I had the Behringer EX2200, great videos, Im an IAR graduate

[@eddiemoney6625]

Definitely a Son of your work, Respect…

[@pmtoner9852]

How did they get the mix so hot before daw plug in

[@TonyBlackNYC]

I'll try to get to this asap

[@pmtoner9852]

@TonyBlackNYC I think that would be an interesting topic

[@OfficeSonatine]

What I get out of this channel is that both J Dilla and Jeff Buckley watch this from Heaven.

Oh no…

[@nzreggae2534]

Kanye did say he was the new Slick Rick and Pete Rock. He's not even the new No ID. Resurrection.

[@Sockeater]

Can you drop a link to the design video you're referencing? Thanks!

[@kingvintage2227]

last one and proudly that dude that was saying he got beats like jdilla lol...youll never be jay my man ..your kick and bass is weak

[@TonyBlackNYC]

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[@Sockeater]

@@TonyBlackNYC Thanks! yeah his videos are great. Very applicable to music production, I really like this one since it uses the ADSR envelope as a metaphor kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYmwn2WGhrB8bdE