Nah, just Swizz beats at this time doesn’t aged the best. @op

S*** was almost 20 years ago

I think a lot of Swizz s*** sucks, but I’m genuinely asking from the lens of the use of synthesizers here

Thank you for pointing that out. You really got spell everything out for people. When I’m saying dated here, I’m not referring to production on songs being old for the sake of being old. Music ebbs and flows. It’s pendulum forever swinging in terms of creativity and philosophy… typically when someone says something sounds dated (even if they don’t know how to put it into words) they mean it doesn’t hold up well. Usually because it’s cheap sounding or it’s other records from that time/era that sound better of achieve the sound the time was going for

has nothing to do with that, ‘gucci time’ is a similar sort of beat this is a swizz thing

2000s production will age better than 2010s and 2020s production. Timbo, Kanye, Dre, Lil Jon etc... blows away the current crop of producers and the stagnant ass sound that has dominated for more than a decade now. 808s just fried most rap fans by now lol

probably not

I mean a couple weeks ago, I just watch a 2 part video of Danja going over the My Love beat that him and Timbo made. He said something that a lot of producers back then and nowadays lacked when using these vintage synthesizers.

He pointed out that he would use cheap synths like the Roland Fanthom, but he’ll use it in a way that makes it sound RICH.

Ofc, we can go on a tangent about Timbo, but I like to point out dudes like Polow Da Don who was also hot at this time, who applied this same type of thinking into more R&B beats (DJ Play Another Love Song & Crying Out For Me)

Long story short, if you use these synths, make it sound unique and rich and not CHEAP.

The tweet in op is just a mishmash of words

The 808 since at least 08 is the most abused sound in modern music.

Ofc it’s been around since it’s inception, but it’s gotten to the point where I just rather hear Fender Electric Basslines lmao

The runners/dj toomp/shawty Redd type beats aged really well imo

Don’t forget…..

“THA BIZNE BIZNESS” 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Yeah ultimately my biggest thing with the futuristic beats of this era was how thin they sounded most of the time

bad tweet

This really only applies to that “futuristic” hip hop production era of that time

Lazer gun beats that clip

Another person I’ll argue is R Les (Ryan Leslie), his production still ages well today.

Nigga was spazzin over those beats.

Some of the sounds were just kinda cheesy and overly simplistic, in a bad way. Like on Love In This Club the "Heyyyyy" sound effect combined with the synth.

His run was incredible fs

they was stuck using those damn romplers

And s*** still sounds fresh as hell foh

i think u can look at it in many diff ways cause a lot of stuff from the 2000s do sound dated, from the drum samples to the synths.

overall, songs from the 2000s were just written better (most of the time)

i dont think that many producers of our time are great songwriters, arrangers, etc.. a lot of them are loopmakers/sample makers

I think the bigger reason why a lot of it sounds dated is because it's 15-20 years old.

Not everything from particular eras of music age well. S***, there's music from just 5-10 years ago that have been aging like white people in the sun.

lol ok man.