6/18/08 RZA Says Guitars Are Part Of Hip Hop

[fearless31666]

6/18/08

Wu-Tang member RZA is one to give his opinions on almost everything. Being the producer and engineer for most of Wu-Tang's material he has strong opinions on what goes into the music production. As we previously reported, Raekwon spoke out stating problems with RZA's production saying "He’s trying to do too much of this guitar shit,” Rae said, continued “Our whole shit is we don’t want that….So chill with that, b.”

RZA is now defending himself, saying “I was just listening to Lil Wayne’s album and there’s guitars all over that album,” RZA told XXL. “Guitars are a part of hip-hop, a part of music. When we were doing 8 Diagrams, we had this lack of feedback and negative energy. I think it was a misunderstanding and premature. If you name 10 hip-hop songs they either have guitars or pianos on it. So the guitar has always been in hip-hop, we just forgot. I didn’t forget though. Plus I fell in love with guitar culture the last few years. Just like I fell in love with samplers when I first got a hold of a sampler. They’re all instruments, and if you can use them, use them."

Source: http://www.rapbasement.com/wu-tang/rza- ... ample.html

[<Stiiccy>]

almost every great hip hop song has a gutair sample in it

[<Stiiccy>]

almost every great hip hop song has a gutair sample in it

Just imagine how shitty "lose yourself" would be with out that fucking kickass guitar riff

and without guitars their would be no horrorcore

dude with out gutairs there would be no hip hop...

[Tornado]

the guitar rules....best ever was Amityville

[Hadez]

almost every great hip hop song has a gutair sample in it

Just imagine how shitty "lose yourself" would be with out that fucking kickass guitar riff

and without guitars their would be no horrorcore

dude with out gutairs there would be no hip hop...

guitars are hip hop. hip hop is not guitars. there's a difference.

[Tash8]

guitars are hip hop. hip hop is not guitars. there's a difference.

noooo

guitars aren't hip hop...

there's hip hop that uses guitars...

i get what ur saying but i think u worded it wrong.

[Hadez]

guitars are hip hop. hip hop is not guitars. there's a difference.

noooo

guitars aren't hip hop...

there's hip hop that uses guitars...

i get what ur saying but i think u worded it wrong.

i prolly did.

my point was guitars may be part of hip hop, but hip hop is still hip hop without them.

[Nu Syd]

co-sign what rza said

[Tash8]

guitars are hip hop. hip hop is not guitars. there's a difference.

noooo

guitars aren't hip hop...

there's hip hop that uses guitars...

i get what ur saying but i think u worded it wrong.

i prolly did.

my point was guitars may be part of hip hop, but hip hop is still hip hop without them.

yea that's what i thought u were trying to say...

[<Stiiccy>]

still imagine hip with zero bass lines or no strings in a beat...
it would suck major

[Hadez]

still imagine hip with zero bass lines or no strings in a beat...
it would suck major

well it's fortunate we have those cuz accoustic and mandalin guitar, cello, pipa, and piano are the best instruments on the planet

[chand1980]

well yeah as an anaylysation the best records tend to have guitar, piano or string riffs going on , know what ya sayin. nothin quite like a deep piano for me hehe

[chand1980]

cellos n strings love them, nearlly in 90percent of tracks in general you hear strings at a rough estimate