Large Professor Speaks About A Tribe Called Quest
Production legend Extra P talks about his favorite A Tribe Called Quest songs and Q-Tip’s tendency towards 3 bar loops.
Common Day Officially Declared By City of Chicago
According to Power 92.3 FM, Chicago has officially declared September 20th to be Common Day in honor the native South Side MC. Coincidentally, he’ll be performing tonight at the Chicago Charter One Pavillion along with Joss Stone, which I’m sure will be a crazy show. Unfortunately, I’ll be unable to attend the festivities due to … Read more
Havoc – “I’m The Boss” Sample Breakdown
In case you didn’t recognize the sample, it was already made famous by A Tribe Called Quest for “Luck of Lucien.” That’s ok though, it’s alright if the Tribe sample wasn’t familiar… it’s also fine, and not altogether unusual, that a classic Tribe beat was redone for fresh ears. What really threw me off was … Read more
Kanye West Revisits “Stronger” In The Studio
Apparently Kanye West’s “Stronger” has been mixed about 11 different times. Take a look as Kanye, Timbaland,and a couple of frustrated studio folks rework and compress kick drums to perfection.
Scratch Magazine Is Dead!
Coming straight from the Scratch Magazine website… Issue #20 featuring 50 Cent & Timbaland will be the last ever published! Announcing the news In a post today, Eskay over at Nah Right says “I hope all you purist snobs are happy. You didn’t buy it when it targeted you, then you screamed bloody murder when … Read more
Jazze Phae’s Studio: 7 Year Old Making Beats
Big Korey constructs a beat using an MPC 2000 XL and Korg keyboard. Producer’s are getting started early nowadays, this kid is only 7 years old and is already flying through programs and sequences. Pretty impressive considering that most of the equipment he’s using is bigger than he is.
Havoc Challenges Kanye West
A tipsy Havoc offers a friendly challenge to Kanye West to see who has the best beats. Kind of funny that he knows the track numbers, but not the names of the songs that he produced.
50 Cent Declares War On Def Jam After Lying About Kanye West Bet
According to preliminary numbers it looks like 50 has already lost his sales challenge to Kanye West. We all knew he wouldn’t honor the bet and retire rapping, but after blaming lagging sales on his own label, he’s declaring war on Def Jam and by threatening to release independent albums for each one of Def … Read more
Kanye West Talks About How Started Producing
Here’ another video of Mr. West talking a little production and how he initially got started by trying to make video games. I had to throw this up in honor of Kanye blasting the folks at the MTV Video Music Awards. Who would have ever imagined that MTV is actually in the business of exploiting … Read more
Ohmega Watts Digging In The Crates
The ever busy Ohmega Watts takes us on a record digging mission to Calgary. While in the crates he talks about paying attention to the personal that appeared on the album, year, and artwork.