for sure, at one point the university in FW (IPFW I think) was putting them on the street so anyone could just take them and NO ONE did, they got thrown away. I moved there like two years to late or I would have got like 5 of them.
No he doesnt use ghost producers, believe it or not I actually know all the gear in his studio from my inside sources ha ha
on the latest record he did collab with a bunch of other producers such as the RZA, Primo even Pete Rocks talks about how Kayne makes Pete's beats even better
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yea and it would make him an eternal legend!
But honestly you should check out his stuff, he is really brilliant despite all the crazy public stuff. He is still making real hip-hop and is a wicked good producer.
Just listen to what he say's in his songs. Talk's about having a beautiful death, and being the greatest rapper of all time in 5 years. Well what is the fast track to do that?
ha ha anyway I am probably way off, but he is just crazy enough to do it.
Yea the SP808 is nice, the biggest problem with Roland stuff in general is there learning curve and UI's. Once you learn them they are powerful but it is not intuitive at first.
I have nothing but love for the Roland units, but I don't think of them as "classic" hip-hop box's, pretty much the MPC60,3000,2000 fill those then of course the SP1200. Maybe an 808 could be a classic hip-hop box as well. ha ha