The big deal on "Hip Hop" radio right now is the new Kanye West/Jay-Z track called "Otis" in which they sample Otis Redding's reading of the song "Try A Little Tenderness". Colby Cole, afternoon drive man on WENZ, is "Lady Ga Ga", er, let me re-phrase that... "Mr. Ga Ga" over this recording. He's so hot on it that he played it twice in a row yesterday, and went into a little speech about how great this track is. I beg to differ.
I'm not saying it's lousy, but it's not as ground breaking as he makes it out to be (imo). I mean, come on, sampling has been done forever in Hip Hop/Rap. It starts out with Otis Redding singing, but they quickly start throwing in some noise with the original recording making it a jumbled mess to me, then they take one little sound-bite from the song and basically do their rap over it. Maybe Colby is all over this song because it gives some love to an old-time legend. However, if he thinks this thing is going to inspire young listeners to go check out more of Otis Redding's music, I think he's mistaken because it doesn't show Mr. Redding to a good advantage at all (imo).
I'm not saying it's lousy, but it's not as ground breaking as he makes it out to be (imo). I mean, come on, sampling has been done forever in Hip Hop/Rap. It starts out with Otis Redding singing, but they quickly start throwing in some noise with the original recording making it a jumbled mess to me, then they take one little sound-bite from the song and basically do their rap over it. Maybe Colby is all over this song because it gives some love to an old-time legend. However, if he thinks this thing is going to inspire young listeners to go check out more of Otis Redding's music, I think he's mistaken because it doesn't show Mr. Redding to a good advantage at all (imo).