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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,…
True Master: One of the Sharpest Masters of the Art of Beatmaking
True Master is a sharp dude. The type that calculates three moves ahead. The type that could have…
The Art of Beatmaking is Bigger than Any Piece of Gear
Concepts, themes, and theories over gear, equipment, and plug-ins — It’s about the beatmaker and his…
Jump N Funk: DJ Rich Medina and His Celebration of Afrobeat
To speak with Rich Medina, a world renowned DJ, producer, and poet, is to receive a lesson in culture,…
The Soul of Curtis Mayfield
In the discussion of music, numerous names are tossed around. Sure, there are many recording artists who…