Then there's BoB, partial to some (sampled) Vampire Weekend himself, and whose UK chart-topping Airplanes featured Paramore's Hayley Williams. Kid Cudi has collaborated with MGMT, Ratatat, Best Coast and Vampire Weekend, while Philadelphia duo Chiddy Bang made liberal use of MGMT's Kids on their Opposite Of Adults track, taken from a debut album titled The Preview that also packs in samples from Passion Pit, Sufjan Stevens and Radiohead. Now, rap's rising stars are cutting out the middle man and rhyming over these backdrops themselves, if they aren't already busy recording with the artists behind them. A few years back, hipster DJs took delight in mashing up rap vocals with alt-rock or dance beats. Recently, though, hip-hop seems to have stopped marching to its own beat. Certain drum breaks became sonic staples (who didn't sample the Honey Drippers' Impeach The President?), while regional tastes in beats – the sinewy, P-funk inspired grooves of Dr Dre and his West Coast compadres, for instance – ensured that hip-hop had variety without ever sacrificing that all-important nod factor.
In the late-80s, artists as diverse as Eric B & Rakim, Big Daddy Kane and Public Enemy sampled funk-soul brothers like James Brown, Bobby Byrd and the Meters, before 90s newcomers Gang Starr and A Tribe Called Quest brought jazz cats like Roy Ayers, Weather Report and Grover Washington Jr into the mix.
In 2010, though, it's hard to know what hip-hop's supposed to sound like.
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