- Pete Rock has thrown a little shade in the direction of today’s Hip Hop producers for not being creative enough when it comes to digging for samples.
- Rock has long established himself as one of Hip Hop’s most prolific producers, and as half of Pete Rock & CL Smooth, the Bronx native became a pioneer of sorts of the 1990s East Coast sound due to his partiality for sampling heavy, jazz-infused beats alongside numerous iconic collaborations with artists from Redman and Run-DMC to Skyzoo and Kanye West.
- This week he had few words of wisdom to offer and instead opted to criticize the direction producers have taken, in which they are flipping more recent tracks — many of which were already hits to begin with.
- “They are resampling rap and r&b records that was made only 3-4 years ago, no diggin for the hits they sampling what was already a hit recently lol,” he wrote via Twitter.