Cosign drops an interview with prolific artist/producer Count Bass D as he talks about about working with STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9), their upcoming live album entitled "L7", and touches on past production techniques using the TR-808 drum machine and using only vinyl. Count Bass D even goes so far to express guilt over the … Read more
Dork Magazine presents an interview with 88 Keys as he tells of breaking into the music business, inspiring producers, getting paid $700 for his first project, and becoming involved with the Black Star album. He also goes on to discuss his first production setup (Akai S950 w/ keyboard), discovering the Akai MPC 3000 while interning … Read more
Check The Credits DVD interviews Chris Styles as he takes a few moments to discuss how he began producing, starting his company Dangerous LLC, and the responsibilities of a record producer. Styles also goes on to openly talk about rumors about past production controversies.
More controversy in Jermaine Dupri’s 4th installment of The State of The Music Business. In this segment JD asks why do people want to get into the music business and goes on to comment that the music industry is the only place where people outside of the business concern themselves with music sales stats. He … Read more
Our favorite year end wrap up provider, Skillz breaks down the making of his first release From Where???. He goes into untold stories about the specifics that went into production, samples, and J Dilla beat tapes (even confesses to passing up the beat to Pharycyde’s "Runnin"). Some of the highlights include Skillz touching upon the … Read more
A little older footage with Mark Ronson in the studio laying down strings for his album Version. It’s interesting to hear his views about about having a grand sound and coming from a background of Hip-Hop and sampling.
Ill Roots sat down with No ID to discuss the state of music, increased global access to music, new models for music distribution, and the opposing concepts of music vs. art. He also tells of his first meeting with Kanye West, celebrities as regular people, and the importance of maintaining proper manners. Read the complete … Read more
DJ Epik talks production, working with Mos Def on "True Magic", and gives a nice scratch demo. He goes on to talk about his first equipment setup with belt drive turntables (sound familiar anyone?), shows off a few records from his deep collection, and gives the MPC 2000 XL a quick workout. He also advises … Read more
Seem like Eric Hudson has been ripping up the net for the past couple of days. This time he site down with XXL for another interview/Q&A session where he talks about the process of putting together the beat for Kanye West’s "Flashing Lights", newly found attention, producing other genres, and the benefits of playing an … Read more
In part 3 of a 5 part series, Dupri talks about only a few rappers being in the top 10 of the R&B charts and how no label has broken any new rap artists. He warns new artists not to get involved in the industry and says that rap looks like it’s over.