Is hiphop turning into tango?

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This is obviously an absurd question, but it occurred to me that a lot of--okay, maybe just some*--hiphop has this sort of nervous sounding repeated string-like sound, I guess borrowed partly from the sort of soundtrack you'd hear in a suspenseful movie. There's a really tightly wound quality to it. I'm not talking to the primary beat, but more the type of samples that are used, or the instrumental-sounding snippets.

(I am posting this under a different name so that more people will read it, since it's not meant to be a hiphop bashing thread, but some might assume that it is once they see I posted it.)

*I'm really tired of this sort of conversational tone.

― NotMe, Wednesday, 11 February 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

popular music in homogenity sh..

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

four weeks pass...

"In Da Club" is an example of the sound I'm talking about.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

From now on I'm going to say that I don't like hiphop (at least the current stuff) because it reminds me too much of tango. It gives me that unpleasantly nervous feeling that tango gives me.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I know what yer talking about Rockist. And I don't like it.
It makes think of 'Indecent Proposal' or Catherine Zeta Jones.
It's like adult soap drama, 'upmarket' uptown gloss.

― No Name, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

― ?, Thursday, 11 March 2004 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

The Big Tymers' "Gangsta Girl" immediately comes to mind, God knows why. Probably more due to the sound than the rhythms.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 11 March 2004 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

So who's the Astor Piazolla of hip-hop then?

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 11 March 2004 03:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe he hasn't arrived yet.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 11 March 2004 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

suddenly the anti-tango stance of Seger's "Old Time Rock 'n' Roll" is falling into place

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Thursday, 11 March 2004 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

So who's the Astor Piazolla of hip-hop then?

Wait! Wait! It's Dre! Don't people do the tango in the "Been There, Done That" video?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 11 March 2004 04:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Revealing the depths of my ignorance about both tango and hip-hop: isn't the rhythm in Outkast's "The Way You Move" at least vaguely tango-ish? (I know Rockist's orig. question wasn't really about the rhythms, but...)

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 11 March 2004 05:05 (twenty-two years ago)

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