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Old School Beats
Old School beats are often refered as nineties beats, but there are differences between them. First and last, an old school beat doesn’t have to sound like the beats that were made in the nineties. At that time there was people playing with different drum patterns and tempos, and that doesn’t make them Old School beats because it wasn’t Old School. Listen below and you’ll get what I’m talking about.
The old school era usually gets flattened into one dusty sound, and that is the wrong way to hear it. These are the years when the drums came out of a machine, the hooks came out of a DJ routine and no two crews had agreed on a pattern, so an old school hip hop beat can be dry and skeletal or wide and warm depending on whose block it came from. Calling all of it nineties would miss the point: this sound was already old by then.
Old school hip hop beats from the Kanye soul era to Dr. Dre
That is how the shelf is built. An old school type beat is often just a drum machine pattern with nothing else on it, an old school rap type beat asks to be rhymed over without a hook, and the dark old school boom bap type beat end is where the sample gets pitched down until it drags. The Kanye soul chop era sits at one edge of this page, the N.W.A. era drum work of Dr. Dre at the other, and old school freestyle boom bap type beat loops in the middle for a single take.