When I'm not The Second Funkiest White Man in America, I am The Second Coming of Ward Cleaver. By that, I mean that I sometimes let my 14-year-old daughter control the radio in the car.

I've noticed that the last few "popular" hip-hop/rap songs have keyboard lines that sound straight out of an early-generation Nintendo game. I cannot listen to these songs without seeing Donkey Kong jump over a barrel or Mario jump over a...well, a barrel.

Ugh.

RodeoSchro said:

When I'm not The Second Funkiest White Man in America, I am The Second Coming of Ward Cleaver. By that, I mean that I sometimes let my 14-year-old daughter control the radio in the car.

I've noticed that the last few "popular" hip-hop/rap songs have keyboard lines that sound straight out of an early-generation Nintendo game. I cannot listen to these songs without seeing Donkey Kong jump over a barrel or Mario jump over a...well, a barrel.

Ugh.

hey!

those game soundtracks are CLASSICS!!

dont be raggining on DK's soundtrack!

if you're going to compare today's music to video games, don't compare it to the good ones

I haven't hear any Kong samples lately.

The sound made when you jump on a kremling was utilized by Mannie Fresh back in the late 90s.

The Block is Hot by Lil Wayne has a bunch of those groans on it.

I don't know if it was directly sampled but it kind of sounds like it.

I just realized you meant the original Donkey Kong.

I'm so familiar with Kong Country I just think of that game whenever DonkeyKong is mentioned.

The original DK yes true, but the DK Country soundtrack's where the bomb... i have them on my itunes actually

That's funny...I was going to say something similar to this on another thread. Yeah, here in Atlanta, that's all they play...If hip-hop producers in the 80s/90s were influenced by funk, rock & soul, majority of the producers in this century spent a little too much time playing video games & watching football...

If it ain't the NES & Sega Genesis sounding samples, it's songs with keyboard horns sounding straight out of Madden NFL Football. Then, there's songs that sound like they sampled them from RPGs like Final Fantasy & fighting games (Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Dead or Alive, etc.)

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It sounds more like computer midis.

RodeoSchro said:

When I'm not The Second Funkiest White Man in America, I am The Second Coming of Ward Cleaver. By that, I mean that I sometimes let my 14-year-old daughter control the radio in the car.

I've noticed that the last few "popular" hip-hop/rap songs have keyboard lines that sound straight out of an early-generation Nintendo game. I cannot listen to these songs without seeing Donkey Kong jump over a barrel or Mario jump over a...well, a barrel.

Ugh.

THAT'S^ what happen when you make hip-hop tracks with instruments from Toys R Us!