Crate Kings

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. CK·0061Unique Places to Dig For Records12.12.2006 · I’m constantly racking my brain through my head in an attempt to more fresh and creative ways to find records and today on the rush hour drive home I
  4. CK·0060Mixtapes and Lupe Fiasco Orginal Samples12.03.2006 · It's been a crazy week trying to finish the absolute final version of the classic Hip Hop/Samples mixtape for Science Skateboards, but it is finally done 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·0052More Dusty Offerings...11.18.2006 · It’s been a bit of a crazy week for me. I finished the bulk of the Science Skateboards Mix CD, which features hip hop, original breaks and samples, rode
  10. 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.