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Madlib Made All the Beats for ‘Bandana’ On His iPad
Madlib shook up the beatmaking community Saturday when he announced that he'd made all of the beats for…
BeatTips MusicStudy: Bobby Boyd Congress – “Dig Deep In Your Soul”
Early Funk From Obscure, Little-Known Outfit
One of the things that makes digging for "new" music so…
John King and the Story of Chung King Studios
Pioneering Recording Studio and Its Owner Helped Give Hip Hop/Rap Music New Dimension
Chung King…
What The Music Taught Me: Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers Taught Me How To Shuffle
Listening To One Of Jazz's Most Prolific Groups, I Learned How To Add Natural Shuffle To My Beats
The…
BeatTips Friday Freestyle: Sa’id – “Funny Politics”
Fridays are always a heavy day for me. It's usually the day that I have the most going on. So to help…
BeatTips Friday Freestyle: Sa’id – “High Top Fade”
Fridays are always a heavy day for me. It's usually the day that I have the most going on. So to help…
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…
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…
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,…