Doc Truth said:
Are those the Bosko,Mike Mosley, Studio Tone tracks or is it the content they rap about? If it's the beats, then that will never come back because that was time specific. That shit sounds and belongs in the 90s.
Mobb Shit is the sound of The Bay. It could probably be described as a sort of "Pimp Funk". One of the main hallmarks of the Mobb Sound was the fact that it was slower than most other regional styles. In my opinion, I'd say the Mobb Sound was more about the music than the content of the lyrics, but you must also recognize the contribution the rappers gave to the music through rhythmic inspiration and the unique flow and cadences of the rap styles that were born in the bay.
To a point you are correct as far as being time specific. When the original Mobb Sound was concieved different instruments were being used. The Korg Triton, the Yamaha Motif, and the Roland Fantom were not even invented. You were more likely to find the Korg Poly Six, the Korg M-1 or M-3, the Yamaha DX-7, SY-77 or SY-22, and the Roland SH, TR, Juno, Jupiter, JX, or JV lines. There were also Moog's, Oberhiem's, and Rhodes used as well. The Emu SP-12 and the Akai S Series were the samplers of choice until The Akai MPC line came along around 1988. The dedicated drum machines were of course the Roland 808 and 909, and Alesis HR-16 and 16B although many different brands were experimented with to some success. Nowadays a cat will go out and purchase a Triton, a Fantom, or a Motif, or a MPC or Roland MV, and tickle the keys or pads a little bit and call himself a producer. Back then it was a little more complicated. Because the sounds from the keyboards were alot thinner then, a producer had to learn how to layer his sounds. And sampling time was a whole lot harder to come by so cats had to find more creative ways to sample. The biggest difference to me is that back then you couldn't call yourself a producer unless you knew how to achieve sonic quality through creativity and knowledge of an entire studio full of equipment. Today cats tap out a beat and on one piece and leave the rest to the engineer if they even bother to use one and to them it's considered a production.
But back to the statement that the Mobb Sound will never come back because it is time specific... The problem with that theory is
1. The Mobb Sound never left. It is STILL and will continue to be the Sound of the Bay. A couple of years of Hyphy or any other new bay style could never begin to drive a nail in the coffin of almost 3 decades (26 years by my count) of Mobb Related Music. At best these new styles are offshoots of an original style of music that was created here in the bay (AKA Bay Area HIP HOP, AKA Mobb Music).
2. Though the instruments used may be dated and time specific the rhythmic styles and cadences of the actual instrument PLAYING is timeless. In other words if you update the instruments and play the exact same notes
you still have a more than viable style of music. In fact some of the instruments of today actually lend themselves to the style even better than the original instruments.
Like I said in another thread there's no reason why Mobb Music and other Bay area styles cant co-exist. It's all gravy if you ask me. But to think that Mobb Music is dead is flat out wrong.
P.S. The Konglomerati Cometh