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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
It’s battle time again and I can barely contain my excitement! Our last producer beat battle set a record for participation with the largest number of entries and another talented winner Young B Da Producer (whose feature profile will appear tomorrow). As always I look forward to the competition and hearing all of the amazing … Read more
Midi Mafia Talks about the history of their name, show’s off their collection of equipment & MPC’s, competing in the DMC world championships, and shifting from the MC role to a producer. They also show off a a few screens from their MPC 2000 XL and give a preview of a N.O.R.E. track.