--It is no accident that the individuals who create hip-hop music call themselves "producers" rather than composers or musicians. The term producer came into vogue in popular music in the 1960's with such individuals such as Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, and George Martin. WHile a recording engineer uses recording equipment to capture a sound on tape, a producer, although performing a materially similar task, is considered to have a larger aesthetic responsibility.--
:As breaks are torn from their original context and repeated, they are reconcieved--by performer and listener alike--
as circular, even if their original harmonic or melodic purposes were linear. In other words, melodies become riffs:
--When you see a swoardsman, draw your sword. Do not recite poetry to one who is not a poet.--
:All the vegetable sedatives and narcotics, all the eurphorics that grow on trees, the hallucinogens that ripen in berries, or can be squeezed from roots--all, without exception, have been known and systematically used by human beings from time immemorial.:
--If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.--