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5 Things to Help You Make Beats Consistently and Grow Your Style and Sound
The key to making great beats is consistency. Consistency keeps you in a music-making zone and away from…
AmirSaysNothing: Blue Collar Priest, Rapper for the People
Off the heels of a solid debut EP in Medium Rare (2015), AmirSaysNothing dropped his first full-length…
One Way to Avoid Over Producing: Minimal Programming Context
You're in the lab making a new beat, you're nodding your head, the beat is dope — almost. You just have…
Beat Breakdown: Main Source – “Looking At the Front Door”
Oliver Wang breaks down Main Source’s “Looking At the Front Door” and points out why Large Professor’s…
Should Millennials Skip the Canon of Hip Hop/Rap Because There’s Too Much Music?
As the number of new hip hop artists has grown drastically in the past decade, resulting in the explosion…
Check This: Carl Navy – “Can’t Hide Love” (Prod. by Laronisaloser)
Unearthing a quality sample is worth the pay off.
Flipping music from the '70s isn't an easy feat.…
Beat Breakdown: Prodigy – “Keep It Thoro” (Prod. by Alchemist)
A menacing apparatus, "Keep It Thoro" personifies how light and heavy textures co-mingle and combine,…
Names on the Marquee: Ahmad Jamal Trio – “Darn That Dream”
Genius and the Intimate Intensity of an After Hours Lounge.
The beatmaking community (and culture)…
Check This: Najjee – “Letters of Incarceration” (Prod. by Judah Hex)
Najjee and Hex release their first album together.
Najjee, formerly of The Krookz collective, has…
Check This: King Shampz – “Murder Art” (Prod. by Azzan)
Philly brothers turn paint brushes to hammers with "Murder Art."
King Shampz and his brother Azzan, a…