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Paul's Boutique and Fear of a Black Planet : Digital Sampling and Musical Style in Hip Hop

2014; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 8; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s175219631300059x

1752-1971

Amanda Sewell,

Music Technology and Sound Studies

Abstract The Beastie Boys’ Paul's Boutique (1989) and Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet (1990) often draw comparisons because of their profuse and eclectic use of digital sampling. These two hip hop albums, however, use sampling in markedly different ways, a fact that is obscured because no well-developed language exists to differentiate how and why their sampling styles differ. To account for these differences, this article proposes a typology for sample-based hip hop, a systematic terminological and conceptual approach to this repertory. Using these two classic albums by the Beastie Boys and Public Enemy as case studies, this typology offers a way to describe and distinguish in concrete terms the richly varied musical styles that make up sample-based hip hop.