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Hip Hop Production

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  1. CK·0066Happy New Year Sample Drop!01.01.2007 · Happy New Year Everyone!  2006 has definitely been an interesting and exciting year all around, especially musically.  We saw the return of Jay Z,
  2. CK·0064Crate Digging and Sampling Ethics... Who Heard of Such A Thing???12.29.2006 · They let me out of my gig a little early today so I took the opportunity to do a little crate digging on my way home from work. It's tough when you walk into
  3. CK·0063Kev Brown Making Beats On The MPC12.23.2006 · I really like this video of Kev Brown making a beat on his trusty MPC 2000XL. This is a great video because he goes farther than just looping a beat and takes
  4. CK·0062Who Stole My MPC Sucka???... How's That???12.23.2006 · Life is good… life is grand… My apologies for the lack of updates lately, but I’ve been doing my best to climb the corporate ladder and
  5. CK·0059Mobb Deep - The Infamous Samples & Breaks Case Study11.26.2006 · A case study of the samples and breaks behind Mobb Deep's The Infamous (1995): the records Havoc flipped and how the album's dark sound was built.
  6. CK·0057Science Skateboards Mixtape by DJ Semantik Is Now Available11.26.2006 · We're doing big things here at Crate Kings!  The official Science Skateboards mixtape by DJ Semantik is now available as a free stream over at the Science
  7. CK·0056Crate Digging w/ DJ Shadow from the Movie Scratch11.23.2006 · I needed a little inspiration tonight to get busy on the MPC, so I went hunting for beat videos again. This is one of my all time favorite videos and DJ
  8. CK·0055Is Crate and Record Digging Dead?11.22.2006 · This crazy thought crossed my mind a while back as I was downloading a fairly difficult to find album entitled Afreaka by a little known group named Demon
  9. CK·0050The Greatest Defunct Hip Hop Magazines of All Time11.14.2006 · The greatest defunct hip-hop magazines of all time, from Grand Slam to Ego Trip: the short-lived publications that covered breaks, samples and rap history.
  10. CK·0032The Best Beat Making Videos10.15.2006 · About a year ago I went through a bit of a strange phase where I felt the need to hunt down every single beat making video that I could find on the net. Like