A new book chronicaling the life and career of Dr. Dre is scheduled to be release during late may. Author Jake Brown will be revealing the the path that Dr. Dre has taken from his early beginning as a DJ to his current superproducer status. Check out more of the article here.
?uestlove of the Roots and his sister give us a glimpse into his infamous record vault. Trust me… this collection is no joke!
I don’t know who this actually is rocking the MPC 2000, but it’s a pretty dope video to watch Pete Rock and Large Professor’s “The Rap World” instrumental be reworked live.
A nice little clip of Pete Rock talking about trends in Hip Hop and upcoming projects.
I just discovered that Just Blaze has been putting out JBTV videos on You Tube. They are more comedy than anything, but still revealing. This one features Just Blaze jacking the beat for Jay Z’s “Show Em What You Got” by using the Dark Side and a light saber.
One of my favorite videos/DVD’s for record diggin has been Deep Crates, produced by Beat Dawg. It really touches on real down and dirty digging from a producers perspective and I’m glad to see that Beat Dawg has slated to release Deep Crate Part 2 for Spring of 07. Hopefully we will have review for … Read more
It looks like Timbaland has his whole camp coming after Scott Storch. This one Feature D.O.E. charging directly at Storch with a beat produced by Timbaland. D.O.E. – "Piano Man" [audio:https://cratekings.com/audio/clips/doe.mp3]
Here’s a response "Beam You Up" from Ms. Jade directed towards Scott Storch and his Timbaland Diss. I’ve never been a huge fan of Ms. Jade, but it was definately better than Storch’s version. Ms. Jade – "Beam You Up" [audio:https://cratekings.com/audio/clips/jade.mp3]
I gotta give the usual huge shout out to my man DJ Trends for putting me up on the latest track "Classic" by Kanye West featuring Nas, KRS-One, Rakim with production by DJ Premier. The best part, of the many, is beginning where we get a glimpse into how DJ Premier works with his MPC … Read more
I have to admit that I’m really intriqued about the whole Scott Storch vs Timbaland beef. Not only are two great producers beefing over something really stupid, but one of them had the audacity to try to rhyme. One top of that, to add ever more fuel to the fire, Storch somehow decided it would … Read more