Genre Killer/Quotes
"The Turtles are a band you're unlikely to have heard of, seeing as they were a second-rate American pop-rock band of the 1960s who had a couple of moderate hits and promptly faded into obscurity. And yet, they probably did more damage to popular music as an art-form than anybody else ever has. Their decision to sue De La Soul for all they were worth when a snip of "You Showed Me" was sampled on 3 Feet High & Rising, and the despicably pig-headed, greedy ignorance they showed in doing so ("We don't hate sampling, we like sampling. If we don't get credit, we sue, and all that money comes back to us!"), killed hip-hop's potential just as it was getting out of the gate. Paul's Boutique and 3 Feet High & Rising are now classics because they represent a glimpse of a time when hip-hop genuinely looked like it would become the ultimate postmodern art form, with a wave of artists ready to take the innovations of [Pierre] Schaeffer and plant them firmly into the mainstream. —Ial, Rate Your Music review of Endtroducing..... by DJ Shadow.
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