Elton John Wants To Make Hip-Hop Records

[Magic]

Elton John Wants To Make Hip-Hop Records

While Elton John isn't quite sure what his next record is going to sound like, he admits that he would like to incorporate some hip-hop.

"I'd love to," he said when asked by Rolling Stone if he wanted to do some hip-hop on the album. "I just don't know how to do it. I do love electronica. So, for me, I'd have to work with someone who knows about it, like a Pharrell or a Kanye [West], who I respect tremendously. I'd love to do that. It's just a matter of when and where and, should I do it, the mood that I'm in. You can never tell. It's happenstance and luck, basically."

John added that when it comes to a different type of music, you 'can't knock it until you try it.'

"You never can knock anybody else's type of music until you try it. I could never do a rap record because I wouldn't know where to start. You can learn so much from working with somebody that does. In the studio with Kanye, when I was doing that in Honolulu, he was just on fire. It was amazing to watch. You knew you were in the presence of greatness."

 

[Vehicle]

I think his views are pretty cool, because of his honesty about his lack of knowledge.

I don't care for hip hop/rap, but I respect the talent it takes to create it.

Just the fact that I lumped hip hop and rap together shows my own ignorance of the genre.

Unlike Sir Elton, though, I have no desire to explore it.

 

[LG]

I take this as a futile attempt to stay relevant, or sell more songs and keep the money rolling in.

Not that there's anything wrong with that, but for me Elton's prime ended in the 80's and he's never come close to equaling his 70's catalog.

 

[Vehicle]

Not that there's anything wrong with that, but for me Elton's prime ended in the 80's

At precisely the same time he signed that Disney contract. After that, whatever he wrote all sounded like one big long song.



On a side note, I don't think Elton could literally hop if he a gun held to his head.