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New Music Friday: April 24th, 2020

Albums

Smino - She Already Decided*
Wiz Khalifa - The Saga of Wiz Khalifa
Mike Dean - 4:20
J. Cole & DJ Critical Hype - In Search Of...Cole (Mashup album)
Quelle Chris & Chris Keys - Innocent Country 2
Lil Gotit - Hood Baby 2
MOBB DEEP - THE INFAMOUS 25TH ANNIVERSARY EXPANDED EDITION
YoungBoy Never Broke Again - 38 Baby 2
Asher Roth - Flowers On The Weekend
Clams Casino - Instrumental Relics
Azizi Gibson - Reaping The Benefits
Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes - What Kinda Music
GRIMM Doza - GRiMM & EViL
Chris Crack - White People Love Algorithms
ANKHLEJOHN - The Face of Jason
lojii & Swarvy - DUE RENT (Blends)
Jackboy - Jackboy
Alina Baraz - It Was Divine
BONES & Drew The Architect - DamagedGoods
Zeroh - BLQLYTE
TyFontaine - 1800
K CAMP - Kiss 5
Trouble - Thug Luv
Smoke DZA - The Smokers Club Presents: Worldwide Smoke Session
Yhung T.O. & Daboii - Demon and Mufasa
Nafe Smallz - Goat World
Ufo361 - Rich Rich
Ivan Ave - Double Goodbyes
Lil West & Brevin Kim - Metallic Body Language
Melo of Higher Brothers - Old Master
Lil Wop - Light
J. Period - OutKast: ReFixed
Spodee - Determination 2
Slimmy B - Time to Shine
Moor Mother & Mental Jewelry - Moor Jewelry: True Opera
Sam Stan & Namesake. - Happy Raps 2
Vic Spencer - No Shawn Skemps
Abby Jasmine - Who Cares?

EPs

Kali Uchis - TOO FEEL ALIVE
Guapdad4000 - Platinum Falcon Tape, Vol 1
Skyzoo & Dumbo Station - The Bluest Note
XV - With God Among Us
Jesse James Solomon - Bleak
070 Shake - Guilty Conscience (Remixes)
Terreace Martin - Conscious Conversations
Yhung T.O. - 420 Pack
Audio Push - Exhale

Singles

Isaiah Rashad - Why Worry
Travis Scott & Kid Cudi - THE SCOTTS
Earl Sweatshirt - WHOLE WORLD (feat. MAXO)
Juice WRLD - Righteous
Ab-Soul - Dangerookipawa Freestyle
JPEGMAFIA - BODYGUARD!*
shofu - TOM NOOK
Hopsin - Covid Mansion
SiR - Rapper Weed (feat. Boogie)
James Blake - You’re Too Precious
Earthgang, Guapdad 4000, Kota tha Friend, Ramriddlz - Rona Raps 6*
REASON - Might Not Make It
Zacari - Edamame / This Woman’s Work
NAV - PineSol
Flight - Disingenuous
Shoreline Mafia - Gangstas & Sippas (feat. Q Da Fool)
Jay Kila - Running Thru Mumbai
Young Dolph - Sunshine
Lil Skies - Fidget
Viper - The Whole World Need Me
Fivio Foreign - 800 BC
Michael Christmas - Credit (feat. Saint Lyor)
Black Soprano Family (Benny the Butcher, Rick Hyde, Heem) - Da Mob
KSI - Houdini (feat. Swarmz & Tion Wayne)
Dumbfoundead - Inside
Octavian & Take a Daytrip - Poison (feat. Santi & Obongjayar)
Ramirez - Tales from Tha Guttah
Mozzy - Boyz to Men
Terror Reid - Outlawz (feat. Pouya)
Mulatto - No Hook
Hook - Just Want Me Around
UMI - Mother
Key Glock - 2 Much
Lil Pump & Anuel AA - Illuminati
John River - The Pick Up
67 - Quarantined
6 Dogs - Takashi Murakami
Masego - Veg Out (Wasting Thyme)
Jon Connor - Q Love
Eric Bellinger - Couch Standing (feat. Wale & Jeremih)
Marlon Craft - High Time
Ravyn Lenae - Rewind
Chip - 0420 (R.I.P Black The Ripper)
Teejayx6 - How To End A Career
SWANG - Resume (feat. Casey Veggies)
Murs & Dee-1 - How Great (feat. Horace C. Bowers)
Bptheofficial - Yo Body (feat. Nef the Pharaoh)
Problem - G Shit
Paul Wall & Lil' Keke - So Trill (feat. Slim Thug)
Joyner Lucas - Lotto (Remix) [feat. Yandel & G-Eazy]
Rayven Justice - On Everything (feat. E-40)
Cassius Jay & Trap Jazz - Go Get It (feat. Jeezy & Chief Keef)
Flume - The Difference (feat. Toro Y Moi) [Extended]
Macky Gee & Tempa T - Not That Guy
Sonny Miles - Arbor Day
Queski & Roddy Ricch - Pain in My Eyes
GFR - Run It Up (feat. Pi'erre Bourne)
Bobby Sessions - Level Up
Asethic - Say That Shit Is Fire
BESTÓR - Backseat Love (feat. Aaron Childs)
Phi11a - Witness (feat. Trippie Redd)
Nino Man - What I Need (Remix) [feat. French Montana, Jim Jones & Papoose]
Leven Kali - PERFECT IS BORING (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)
Ethereal - 2 Easy
CZARFACE - Still Crazy
Akon & Wizkid - Escape
Savon & Sango- River City
Black Coffee & Sabrina Claudio - SBCNCSLY
Slimelife Shawty - Understand Me (feat. Rylo Rodriguez)
Monster Florence - 26 Ghosts
Javed - Dummy (feat. Michael Christmas)
Audio Slugs & Tommy B - On My Toes (feat. JME)
Spectacular Diagnostics - Ridin' (Remix) [feat. Jeremiah Jae]
Jidenna - Feng Shui (From Insecure Soundtrack)
New Kids On The Block - House Party (feat. Boyz II Men, Big Freedia, Naughty By Nature & Jordan Sparks)
Telly Mac & Mozzy - Out Her Purse (Remix) [feat. Yung Lott & D-Moe]
Blackway & Busta Rhymes - Intense
Iamkeynotes - Buss it Down (feat. DaBaby & Petey Pablo)
Youngs Teflon & Slay Products - Baldie
Lil Baby - All In
Khalid & Disclosure - Know Your Worth (feat. Davido & Tems)
Jabee - ChecMate (feat. Atmosphere & Lil B)
Supreme Ace - Everything I Need (feat. TYuS)
Young Lito - Man Down (feat. Money Montage & Holy Cheezus)
Yung Killz - Cypher Freestyle (feat. Chris Carter)
Rockie Fresh - VS Ideas
Tony Njoku - 100% 4 Beauty
Cautious Clay, Remi Wolf & sophie meyers - Cheesin' (feat. Still Woozy, Claud, Melanie Faye & HXNS)
Lotus Blooming - By Myself (feat. YFX & Supa Bwe)
A-Wax - Dinner Plate
33rdscrap - East Atlanta (feat. Casino & Young Scooter)
Wiley - Drip Insured (feat. Lotto Ash)
Ro James - Selfish
SZA & Justin Timberlake - The Other Side (Ovy On The Drums Remix)
Vibbar - Rollin' My Sheets (feat. Kojey Radical & Sam Wise)
Lowwki - Highs & Lows (feat. Mick Jenkins)
Mase Well - Cycles (feat. Michael Christmas)
Juvie & Lancey Foux - Go Up
Tobe Nwigwe - SAGE
Lil Duval - High (feat. Devin the Dude)
J. Banks - 1 I'm Wit (feat. Nef the Pharaoh)
Tycoon Showtime - Dominique Wilkins (feat. Future)
Oliver Asadi - Father - True Animal
Barni Bolduin - Five Six Figures (feat. City Girls)
T-Pain - Wake Up Dead (feat. Chris Brown)
Rod Wave - The Last Sad Song
* means not on streaming
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2017 Album of the Year #24: Kelela - Take Me Apart

Artist: Kelela
Album: Take Me Apart
Released: October 6, 2017
Listen: Spotify / Apple Music
BIOGRAPHY!
Kelela Mizanekristos was born in Washington, D.C. on June 6, 1983. She's a proud Ethiopian American, and is very knowledgable of her roots and her culture (Take Me Apart's cover has her name written in one of Ethiopia's languages). She grew up in the suburbs, and she listened to R&B, jazz and Björk growing up. She's a black, queer woman, and she has no shame about incorporing her personal life into her art. She has released three projects so far: her mixtape, Cut 4 Me was released in 2013 and launched her career, with overwhelming positive reviews and acclaim from Solange and Bjork herself. It was included in several publications' Year End lists, reaching the top 10 in Time and The Guardian's. In 2015 she released her EP Hallucinogen to, again, very positive reviews. She worked with Arca and BOOTS for the first time, and the lead single "Rewind" became her 'breakthrough' of sorts for its upbeat and energetic nature. Her critical acclaim and hype earned her some high profile collaborations in 2016 and 2017, with features on Clams Casino, Danny Brown, Solange and Gorillaz's albums. Her debut album Take Me Apart finally arrived on 2017, after four years of working on it. It was instantly praised as her best work yet, from critics and fans alike and it became her first charting project, reaching #128 on the Billboard 200. Lead single "LMK" followed "Rewind"'s steps as a fun and uptempo single, and became one of her biggest hits as well.
MY ALBUM ANALYSIS!
With Take Me Apart, Kelela wanted to re-write an old ideal, something that's been so written and sung about that it's hard to find something new to say - what it means to be in love, and what it means to fall out of love, and back again and out again. Like her inspirations, mainly R&B artists such as Janet and Michael (but also Phil Collins), Kelela is not only interested in the sexual implications of being with someone, which are definitely present in this album, but also the emotional weight and the devastating impact that relationships that sometimes work and sometimes don't have on people. Even talking about some tracks makes Kelela start crying. She has lived this record. By completely opening up and sharing her weak and strong sides throughout this amazing concept album, Kelela invites us to take her apart, so that's what we'll do.
It's inevitable to compare this record to Beyoncé's 2016 masterpiece "Lemonade" (or it would be had I not completely overplayed, analyzed and explored both albums). Both give us an unique and personal perspective of being angry, being black, being happy, in love, forgiving other's bullshit, hoping to be forgiven, and simply not giving a fuck. By not giving a fuck is exactly how Take Me Apart starts. "Frontline" introduces us to Kelela's mastermind, and it starts with the end of a relationship. When you've been with someone you love and it starts going sour there's a lot of internal conflict - should we end it? How will he react? Is it worth it? She compares this feeling of being near the verge of breaking up to being on the front line of a battle. You're most likely going to die - the question is when. There's a feeling of being held back that she fights, but after all this turmoil she comes out on top and ends it with a smile on her face, while her ex cries and pleads her back. The song ends with Kelela walking away, presumably from her ex, entering her car and driving away, implying she moved on.
But do we ever move on? We might tell ourselves that we're over a person, that what they do doesn't bother us anymore, but then we see their name, something that reminds us of them, or god forbid, them in person, and it sets off this strange feeling of our stomach turning over and our brain giving us flashbacks of the good and the bad moments that happened between us. "Waitin" is about that moment, when you're meeting the ex again after some months, talking to them, and realizing that maybe we made a mistake by letting each other go, that you should try to do everything again, even though it caused everyone so much pain and resentment.
And you reach the point where you're back at square one, cloud nine with this person: you're sneaking in each other's house and leaving before dawn so nobody knows you were there, you have hot, passionate sex and, most importantly, you reach a new and deeper level of understanding - "try to tell you one thing/and then you just read my mind". You're telling your partner everything that was left unsaid before the split, and there's a bigger sense of passion for each other. With the title of this record, Kelela was referencing the overarching story and concept, but in its title track, the meaning is more visceral and primal - in this moment of the relationship, you are taking each other apart, exploring new corners of the body and the soul that were perhaps never touched before. One thing I haven't mentioned yet, probably because I'm so immersed in the story of the record, is the production - this particular track was made piece by piece by six professional producers, including Arca (Bjork, FKA twigs, Kanye West), kwes (Solange) and Ariel Rechtshaid (Adele, Charli XCX, Sky Ferreira, HAIM, Vampire Weekend...). The complexity and intricacity of this track in particular is extraordinary, with a sense of urgency building in the pre-chorus, only to explode in the chorus with a dizzying collection of beats and moans. It's probably my favorite track in this record.
The brighest flame burns quickest, and we see Kelela standing where we met her - breaking up, again. This time we're in a different position than we were in "Frontline", even though she describes them as 'sister' tracks. There's a clear vulnerability displayed here, and she describes it as a "sadder leaving". You can feel the emotional stress that she's going through, the frustration of going through another breakup, and the self doubt that she feels - "will love ruin my heart?". "Jupiter" is a dreamy, short interlude and it comes at a point when Kelela is feeling completely isolated, but motivated to pick herself up and move forward for good. The title of this song comes from a Jupiter synth that her and her producers found at the basement of an hotel she was staying in - it transmits to me a cold feeling that I think matches the theme pretty wonderfully.
Something that we almost never hear about after relationships is keeping the friendship - a lot of the time, there are too many feelings of hatred or disgust towards the other person that makes it impossible to keep talking to them. That's what Kelela attempts to do on the closing song of the first half of this record, "Better". The track is about not only reconciling with your ex, but with yourself: "I know it made me betteAren't we better now?".
So Kelela has reached a midway point in her story, where she's single and ready to mingle. That's where the lead single "LMK" comes in - a sensual but affirming ode to one night stands, as long as they're respectful. We see her at a club, approaching and being approached by people, and I personally get the vibe that she's kinda frustrated by this person who doesn't say or do the right things, and that there's a LOT of shade being thrown, but she chases them anyways. And even in this hook up situation there's a lot of love and care given by Kelela, even if it's not reciprocated. In the end, she asks the other party to "let her know" if this 'fling' is something that they want to go forward with and explore deeper, or if they don't really care about it and it's a simple one night stand. Both answers are okay - "it ain't that deep, by the way". This bouncy jam has the same producers as most of the album, which helps give it a sense of consistency, but I think it's her most radio-friendly and accessible track.
A few dates later, Kelela details the first sexual encounter with her new lover. She describes it as a "game", more specifically, truth or dare. It's essentially a sexual and flirty track where they're exploring each other for the first time, playing with eacher other's fantasies and bodies. The lust flows onto the next interlude "S.O.S.", which is essentially a late night booty call, and "Blue Light", the second single off this project. In this tune, we see her diving headfirst into this new relationship. Whereas she previously held back emotionally, she's dropping her chains and confessing all her feelings to her new lover.
Another of this album's highlights for me is "Onanon". Throughout a classic glitchy and cracking Arca beat with a gorgeous string section that evokes the feeling of exasperation in the lyrics and harmonies, Kelela details one of the first and biggest fights of the couple. She calls out not only her lover's faults, but her own, and there's an overwhelming feeling of permanent discontent, doubt and anger, to the point where she says she's got the taste of her tears down. The constant breaking up and getting back again can be extremely stressful, like you're in a never ending cycle.
"Turn To Dust" covers the last moments of the relationship, or as she puts it, 'right before "Frontline"', when she feels like she has nothing left to give while her lover is 'bottled up inside', not sharing enough, holding back. This feels very contradictory to her very vulnerable side: she's willing to share her soul but her lover denies that. This track was co-written with The XX's Remy Croft, which is a fun fact. Personally, this is my least favorite song in this album and I skip it almost every time. I guess I find it too slow and not really captivating after the first minute or so. The last track in this story is another interlude, "Bluff". After their disagreement on the previous track, her lover says they're leaving her and she challenges them to stay and open up, one last time. It works.
The last song in the album, much like the previously mentioned "Lemonade", is not about the overarching relationship story, but about black women:
“I’m specifically thinking about black women who are just like on their grind and operating in spaces where they’re not appreciated and its just a message for those people so that they can feel like it’s worth pursuing and pushing”
I can't talk about what it means to be an underappreciated black woman, and the message is pretty straightforward. I'll say that this is a very beautiful and dreamy closer and it works perfectly.
MY THOUGHTS ON THIS ALBUM!
I have loved Kelela since about 2015 when I first listened to "The High" from her Hallucinogen EP on one of my 8tracks (rip) music discovery sessions. Now I know it's not one of the best songs from her amazing EP, but at the time I was mesmerized by the pulsating beat and the mellow, spacey, bedroom/soundcloud production that drew me in to artists such as Tinashe and FKA twigs and is now plaguing your Discover Weekly playlists. She quickly became one of my favorite artists and I have checked for her ever since. I saw her live in 2016 (which is a big deal for me since nobody wants to tour in my country!) and it was an ethereal experience, listening to her hit all those high notes. I narrowly missed on a selfie with her sadly!
So, fast forward to 2017...needless to say, I was super excited when she announced her debut album, and listening to it really clicked with me and made me feel understood in a certain way? I'm a very emotional person, I feel things intensely, but I'm not the best at expressing how I feel, which is why albums like this resonate so hard with me. I feel like Kelela does an amazing job at conveying her emotions and her vulnerable side, and I definitely connect to her a lot of the time. She has a hard time explaining some songs due to the emotional weight attached to them, and it's a hard listen for me too. There's a lot of memories that her lyrics bring up and they're not always pretty ones.
The production is fucking bonkers, I don't even know how to explain it. It just suits the tracks so well, and what she's trying to say, there's no disconnect. A casual pop fan would probably find it 'boring' and too same-y, I believe, but the industrial and futuristic R&B approach they have is absolutely gorgeous and they are able to draw some of her influences - Janet, Aaliyah, Sade - and transport it not to 2017, but to 3017. A lot of these tracks have an explosive chorus that is executed with a sharp precision.
It's my absolute favorite album of 2017 and I'm honored I was picked to do this write up.
Some of my favorite lyrics in this record:
Frontline
Could be winter but I burn inside
Waitin
Will you stay now?
'Cause winter's always warmer when you're round
Better
Though I'm in love with it, I will amputate
S.O.S.
I could touch myself, bae
But it's not the same
If you could stop and help me out
Onanon
Fight all the tears, I got the tears down
The type when your life is deep into the ground
and
It doesn't help I watch your every single move
Like I wanna fight with you
Essential Tracks: LMK, Onanon, Blue Light, Take Me Apart
Deep Cuts: Truth or Dare, Jupiter, S.O.S., Altadena
DISCUSSION POINTS!
  1. How can Kelela further evolve her sound?
  2. Why is Kelela still very 'niche' in comparison to her alt-r&b peers, such as FKA twigs or SZA?
  3. How well do you think Kelela told her 'story' throughout this album?
  4. Do you think Kelela broke the paradox of sounding 90's and 3000's at the same time?
  5. Overall thoughts/fav tracks/any other comment?
Sorry these questions are trash lol I'm out of creativity
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Best Beats 2.0, Week 28 - MF DOOM

The super villain is this week's best beats!
Background: An English hip hop recording artist and record producer. Best known for his "super villain" stage persona and unique lyrics, Dumile has taken on several stage names in his career, most notably as MF Doom, often stylized as "MF DOOM". He has appeared in several collaborative projects such as Madvillain (with Madlib), Danger Doom (with Danger Mouse), Doomstarks (with Ghostface Killah), JJ Doom (with Jneiro Jarel), and NehruvianDoom (with Bishop Nehru).
IMPORTANT TIPS BEFORE VOTING:
  1. All Votes must provide a one-two sentence justification for it to be counted.
  2. Remember to provide links!
  3. One vote per comment as well.
  4. Before voting please look into listen to some of the Shadow's best beats and lesser known beats to ensure we are not voting on popularity:
Past 20 Week Results:
Week 7 - Noah "40" Shebib - "Drake - Tuscan Leather" Week 8 - Pharrell Williams/The Neptunes - "Clipse - Grindin" Week 9 - DJ Premier - "Royce da 5'9 - Boom" Week 10 - Zaytoven - "Future - Oooooh" Week 11 - The Alchemist - "Mac Miller - Red Dot Music" Week 12 - Mike Will Made It - "Future - Move That Dope" Week 13 - DJ Dahi - "Kendrick Lamar - Money Trees" Week 14 - Knxwledge - "Kendrick Lamar - Momma" Week 15 - Timbaland - "JAY Z - Big Pimpin'" Week 16 - Swizz Beatz - "DMX - Ruff Ryders Anthem" Week 17 - Flying Lotus - "Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me" Week 18 - Hit-Boy - "JAY Z & Kanye West - Niggas in Paris" Week 19 - Pete Rock - "Pete Rock & CL Smoth - T.R.O.Y." Week 20 - 9th Wonder - "Anderson .Paak - The Season/Carry Me" Week 21 - El-P - "Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy" Week 22 - Boi-1da - "Drake - Pound Cake" Week 23 - 2016 - "Danny Brown - Ain't It Funny" Week 24 - Q-Tip - "Nas - One Love" Week 25 - No I.D. - "Big Sean - Control" Week 26 - Clams Casino - "Lil B - I'm God" Week 27 - DJ Shadow - "DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World"
Post your favorite beats (with links) here!
remember just because a beat may be iconic that does necessarily mean it's their best beat.
taking suggestions for next week
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Best Beats 2.0, Week 29 - Nujabes

The Japanese beat king is this week's best verse!
Background: Nujabes (ヌジャベス Nujabesu?). Nujabes (pronounced /ˈnudʒɑːbɛs/) was an anagram of his name, being the reverse spelling of Seba Jun. He was the owner of two Shibuya record stores, T Records and Guinness Records, and founder of the independent label Hydeout Productions. His style mixes hip hop and jazz samples. Nujabes collaborated with other Japanese artists such as Uyama Hiroto, Shing02 (with whom he created the critically acclaimed "Luv(sic)" hexalogy), Minmi, and was also involved with America's underground hip hop scene through collaboration with CYNE, Apani B, Five Deez, Substantial, CL Smooth, Fat Jon, and Terry Callier. In his career, he released three studio albums (Metaphorical Music in 2003, Modal Soul in 2005, and Spiritual State, released posthumously in 2011) and two collection compilations (Hydeout Productions 1st Collection in 2003 and 2nd Collection in 2007).[1] One of his most recognizable works is that of the background music for Shinichirō Watanabe's series Samurai Champloo (Music Record: Departure and Impression) in 2004.
On February 26, 2010, Jun Seba died in a traffic accident.[2] Following his death, numerous tributes were made by other artists from around the world (including his own label Hydeout Productions).
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  2. Remember to provide links!
  3. One vote per comment as well.
  4. Before voting please look into listen to some of the Nujabes' best beats and lesser known beats to ensure we are not voting on popularity:
Past 20 Week Results:
Week 8 - Pharrell Williams/The Neptunes - "Clipse - Grindin" Week 9 - DJ Premier - "Royce da 5'9 - Boom" Week 10 - Zaytoven - "Future - Oooooh" Week 11 - The Alchemist - "Mac Miller - Red Dot Music" Week 12 - Mike Will Made It - "Future - Move That Dope" Week 13 - DJ Dahi - "Kendrick Lamar - Money Trees" Week 14 - Knxwledge - "Kendrick Lamar - Momma" Week 15 - Timbaland - "JAY Z - Big Pimpin'" Week 16 - Swizz Beatz - "DMX - Ruff Ryders Anthem" Week 17 - Flying Lotus - "Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me" Week 18 - Hit-Boy - "JAY Z & Kanye West - Niggas in Paris" Week 19 - Pete Rock - "Pete Rock & CL Smoth - T.R.O.Y." Week 20 - 9th Wonder - "Anderson .Paak - The Season/Carry Me" Week 21 - El-P - "Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy" Week 22 - Boi-1da - "Drake - Pound Cake" Week 23 - 2016 - "Danny Brown - Ain't It Funny" Week 24 - Q-Tip - "Nas - One Love" Week 25 - No I.D. - "Big Sean - Control" Week 26 - Clams Casino - "Lil B - I'm God" Week 27 - DJ Shadow - "DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World" Week 28 - MF DOOM - "MF DOOM - Hoe Cakes"
Post your favorite beats (with links) here!
remember just because a beat may be iconic that does necessarily mean it's their best beat.
taking suggestions for next week
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Best Beast 2.0, Week 32 - KAYTRANADA

The Canadian DJ is this week's best beats!
Background: Celestin began his career under the name Kaytradamus in 2010. He released two projects as Kaytradamus before changing his name to 'Kaytranada' in 2012. Kaytranada has released a total of thirteen projects and forty-one remixes. Kaytranada has toured more than 50 Canadian, American, European and Australian cities.
During 2015, Kaytranada opened for two nights of Madonna's Rebel Heart Tour, one in Canada and one in the United States.
In December 2014 he signed an exclusive recording agreement with XL Recordings. His debut album, 99.9%, was released on May 6, 2016. The album includes features from GoldLink, AlunaGeorge, Syd tha Kyd, Anderson Paak, and Vic Mensa among others. He also did a collaboration with Craig David, on the song "Got It Good", which is also included in David's sixth studio album, Following My Intuition.
Speculation arose that Kaytranada and producer Rick Rubin had started working together when a photo of them surfaced online around February 2015. It was later confirmed that they did in fact enter in a partnership for his publishing, that is backed by Pulse Recordings based in Los Angeles.
He won the 2016 Polaris Music Prize for his album 99.9%.
IMPORTANT TIPS BEFORE VOTING:
  1. All Votes must provide a one-two sentence justification for it to be counted.
  2. Remember to provide links!
  3. One vote per comment as well.
  4. Before voting please look into listen to some of the Kay's best beats and lesser known beats to ensure we are not voting on popularity:
Past 20 Week Results:
Week 11 - The Alchemist - "Mac Miller - Red Dot Music" Week 12 - Mike Will Made It - "Future - Move That Dope" Week 13 - DJ Dahi - "Kendrick Lamar - Money Trees" Week 14 - Knxwledge - "Kendrick Lamar - Momma" Week 15 - Timbaland - "JAY Z - Big Pimpin'" Week 16 - Swizz Beatz - "DMX - Ruff Ryders Anthem" Week 17 - Flying Lotus - "Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me" Week 18 - Hit-Boy - "JAY Z & Kanye West - Niggas in Paris" Week 19 - Pete Rock - "Pete Rock & CL Smoth - T.R.O.Y." Week 20 - 9th Wonder - "Anderson .Paak - The Season/Carry Me" Week 21 - El-P - "Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy" Week 22 - Boi-1da - "Drake - Pound Cake" Week 23 - 2016 - "Danny Brown - Ain't It Funny" Week 24 - Q-Tip - "Nas - One Love" Week 25 - No I.D. - "Big Sean - Control" Week 26 - Clams Casino - "Lil B - I'm God" Week 27 - DJ Shadow - "DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World" Week 28 - MF DOOM - "MF DOOM - Hoe Cakes" Week 29 - Nujabes - "Nujabes - Feather" Week 30 - Havoc - "Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt. II" Week 31 - Organized Noize - "Outkast - Da Art of Story Tellin' Pt. 1"
Post your favorite beats (with links) here!
remember just because a beat may be iconic that does necessarily mean it's their best beat.
taking suggestions for next week
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Best Beats 2.0, Week 38 - Mike Dean

Houston very own is this week's best beats!
Background: Mike Dean started doing collaborations with numerous Texan artists, including Selena, for whom Dean served as musical director and producer. Dean first became widely known for pioneering the Dirty South sound in the 1990s, particularly in work for artists from Rap-A-Lot Records. Dean has most notably worked alongside Scarface of the Geto Boys, Do or Die, Tha Dogg Pound, Yukmouth of the Luniz, C-Bo, Nate Dogg, Tech N9ne, UGK, Z-Ro, Devin the Dude, Outlawz and 2Pac.
Dean went on to mix, produce and master widely throughout American hip hop. He has become known for his work with Kanye West. After initially contributing to the mixing of West's albums The College Dropout and Late Registration, Dean contributed as producer on West's Graduation, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Yeezus, and The Life of Pablo albums.[4] He also co-produced with West on his collaboration album with Jay-Z, Watch the Throne. Dean was an additional producer on "Mercy" and "Higher" on GOOD Music's 2012 compilation album Cruel Summer. Dean has made particularly heavy contributions on West's last albums, and is credited on most tracks.
In recent years, Mike Dean has served as a regular guitarist and keyboardist for Kanye West at his live performances, headlining numerous music festivals, the Watch the Throne Tour, and the Yeezus Tour. Dean has also been a frequent collaborator with Travis Scott. Dean's production has appeared on every one of Scott's musical bodies of work from 2013 to the present. In 2016, Dean mastered Frank Ocean's visual album Endless, and wrote and produced tracks on Desiigner's mixtape New English and produced Desiigner's single "Tiimmy Turner"
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Past 20 Week Results:
Week 17 - Flying Lotus - "Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me" Week 18 - Hit-Boy - "JAY Z & Kanye West - Niggas in Paris" Week 19 - Pete Rock - "Pete Rock & CL Smoth - T.R.O.Y." Week 20 - 9th Wonder - "Anderson .Paak - The Season/Carry Me" Week 21 - El-P - "Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy" Week 22 - Boi-1da - "Drake - Pound Cake" Week 23 - 2016 - "Danny Brown - Ain't It Funny" Week 24 - Q-Tip - "Nas - One Love" Week 25 - No I.D. - "Big Sean - Control" Week 26 - Clams Casino - "Lil B - I'm God" Week 27 - DJ Shadow - "DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World" Week 28 - MF DOOM - "MF DOOM - Hoe Cakes" Week 29 - Nujabes - "Nujabes - Feather" Week 30 - Havoc - "Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt. II" Week 31 - Organized Noize - "Outkast - Da Art of Story Tellin' Pt. 1" Week 32 - KAYTRANADA - "KAYTRANADA - Glowed Up" Week 33 - Tyler, The Creator - "Tyler The Creator - Rusty" Week 34 - Lex Luger - "Wakka Flocka Flame - Hard in the Paint" Week 35 - Danger Mouse - "DangerDoom - Crosshairs" Week 36 - Cardo - "Kendrick Lamar - Untitled 02" Week 37 - Earl Sweatshirt - "
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Best Beats 2.0, Week 30 - Havoc

The 41st side's very own Havoc is this week's best Beats!
Background: Havoc is from the New York City housing project Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City, Queens; his mother is from Brooklyn, NY. Havoc is the lead producer of Mobb Deep he has produced songs for MCs such as Eminem, Nas, Foxy Brown, Onyx, The Notorious B.I.G., Jadakiss, Styles P, Method Man, Game, Diddy, LL Cool J, La The Darkman, Rohff, Big Noyd, Termanology, Per Vers, O.G.C., Tragedy Khadafi, Capone-N-Noreaga, and his own partner Prodigy on his solo work. In the spring of 2005, Mobb Deep was signed to fellow Queens rapper 50 Cent's record label G-Unit Records. In late 2009 50 Cent dropped the duo from the label.
Havoc is renowned among serious hip-hop fans as one of the prominent figures during the mid-1990s for his hard-hitting and stripped-down beats complementary to the RZA's work on Wu-Tang Clan projects. Following The Infamous, he tweaked his skills and transitioned to a more atmospheric production style that incorporated samples from classical music, most notably visible on the 1996 album Hell on Earth. As an MC, he is known for his hardcore lyricism and consistent flow. He also contributed background vocals and a verse on Black Moon's debut album Enta da Stage in 1993.
In July 2009, Havoc was featured alongside Raekwon in J Dilla's music video for "24K Rap" off of the Jay Stay Paid album, the video was directed by Derek Pike. In 2010, Havoc produced a beat for Eminem which resulted in a song called "Untitled" which is a hidden track on Eminem's album Recovery and contributed to the iTunes bonus track to Raekwon's album Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang & Bad Meets Evil's Hell: The Sequel EP. He revealed that he plans on recording a new Mobb album with Nas. His third studio album 13 was released on May 7, 2013.
Havoc worked with Kavinsky on his 2013 album OutRun. He wrote the lyrics and sang the vocals for, "Suburbia", the 6th track on the album. In 2016, Havoc produced "Real Friends" and "Famous", two tracks on Kanye West's album The Life of Pablo.
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Past 20 Week Results:
Week 9 - DJ Premier - "Royce da 5'9 - Boom" Week 10 - Zaytoven - "Future - Oooooh" Week 11 - The Alchemist - "Mac Miller - Red Dot Music" Week 12 - Mike Will Made It - "Future - Move That Dope" Week 13 - DJ Dahi - "Kendrick Lamar - Money Trees" Week 14 - Knxwledge - "Kendrick Lamar - Momma" Week 15 - Timbaland - "JAY Z - Big Pimpin'" Week 16 - Swizz Beatz - "DMX - Ruff Ryders Anthem" Week 17 - Flying Lotus - "Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me" Week 18 - Hit-Boy - "JAY Z & Kanye West - Niggas in Paris" Week 19 - Pete Rock - "Pete Rock & CL Smoth - T.R.O.Y." Week 20 - 9th Wonder - "Anderson .Paak - The Season/Carry Me" Week 21 - El-P - "Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy" Week 22 - Boi-1da - "Drake - Pound Cake" Week 23 - 2016 - "Danny Brown - Ain't It Funny" Week 24 - Q-Tip - "Nas - One Love" Week 25 - No I.D. - "Big Sean - Control" Week 26 - Clams Casino - "Lil B - I'm God" Week 27 - DJ Shadow - "DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World" Week 28 - MF DOOM - "MF DOOM - Hoe Cakes" Week 29 - Nujabes - "Nujabes - Feather"
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Best Beats 2.0, Week 39 - Jake One

LA's very own is this week's best beats!
Background: Dutton grew up in the Central District and moved to the North End of Seattle when he was 15. He started making music on a Casio keyboard in 1992. He attended the University of Washington and gave a tape of his music to a friend who worked in a local record store. One of the store's other employees, the DJ Mr. Supreme heard the tape, and when he set up his Conception Records label, he used Dutton to create backing tracks. The first record he produced was Eclipse's "World Premier". His early influences included Pete Rock, Dr. Dre, DJ Premier, and Marley Marl.
He was a part of the G-Unit production team, The Money Management Group. His first album credited to Jake One, White Van Music, was released on October 7, 2008 on Rhymesayers Entertainment, which features contributions from Brother Ali, Young Buck, De La Soul, M.O.P., Freeway, DOOM, Slug, and Keak da Sneak.
He has had tracks included on the soundtracks to films such as Get Rich or Die Tryin' (50 Cent's "I Don't Know Officer"), The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ("Jake Alert"), and Gone Baby Gone.
In 2010, Jake One released two collaborative albums, The Stimulus Package with Freeway and Patience with Truthlive.
He also produced Brother Ali's full-length album Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color on Rhymesayers Entertainment.
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Past 20 Week Results:
Week 18 - Hit-Boy - "JAY Z & Kanye West - Niggas in Paris" Week 19 - Pete Rock - "Pete Rock & CL Smoth - T.R.O.Y." Week 20 - 9th Wonder - "Anderson .Paak - The Season/Carry Me" Week 21 - El-P - "Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy" Week 22 - Boi-1da - "Drake - Pound Cake" Week 23 - 2016 - "Danny Brown - Ain't It Funny" Week 24 - Q-Tip - "Nas - One Love" Week 25 - No I.D. - "Big Sean - Control" Week 26 - Clams Casino - "Lil B - I'm God" Week 27 - DJ Shadow - "DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World" Week 28 - MF DOOM - "MF DOOM - Hoe Cakes" Week 29 - Nujabes - "Nujabes - Feather" Week 30 - Havoc - "Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt. II" Week 31 - Organized Noize - "Outkast - Da Art of Story Tellin' Pt. 1" Week 32 - KAYTRANADA - "KAYTRANADA - Glowed Up" Week 33 - Tyler, The Creator - "Tyler The Creator - Rusty" Week 34 - Lex Luger - "Wakka Flocka Flame - Hard in the Paint" Week 35 - Danger Mouse - "DangerDoom - Crosshairs" Week 36 - Cardo - "Kendrick Lamar - Untitled 02" Week 37 - Earl Sweatshirt - "Earl Sweatshirt - Grief" Week 38 - Mike Dean - "Kanye West - Devil in a New Dress"
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Best Beats 2.0, Week 34 - Lex Luger

The pioneer of trap is this week's best beats.
Background: Luger uses the digital audio workstation, FL Studio along with custom installed VST plugins to compose his beats. He has also incorporated music production workstations such as Maschine and Pro Tools. In each of his productions, he has become known for using his signature electronic sounding build up effect in the beginning and throughout his productions. The basis for his stage name came from professional wrestler Lex Luger as well as the Luger pistol. He cites producers Dr. Dre, Shawty Redd, D. Rich, Drumma Boy, Jazze Pha, hip hop production duo The Heatmakerz, rapper Juicy J and his former group Three Six Mafia, and the Harlem rap group The Diplomats as his musical influences. He self describes the creative process of making his beats coming from his inner "pain" bringing out stress and pouring his heart out when he composes his beats.
Luger is known for his strong adherence to Atlanta's trap sound making use of the Roland TR-808 kick drum, ominous synth lines, and threatening ad-libs.[30] His austere, jackhammer and utilitarian orchestral trap sound has been well known for his heavy use of hard hitting 808's, crisp snare drums, frantic synthesizers, spooky, sinister and rhythmic Danny Elfman-like bombastic ominous orchestration of synthesized brass, stringed, woodwind, and keyboard instruments commonly incorporated throughout his productions. Luger is known for his musical confluence of combining bombastic orchestral instruments, spooky synths with urban street hip hop sounds. Since his entrance into the hip hop industry, he produces with a more diverse approach further incorporating pop, R&B, as well as electronic dance as a creative aberration from his traditional trap sound into his production repertoire.
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Past 20 Week Results:
Week 13 - DJ Dahi - "Kendrick Lamar - Money Trees" Week 14 - Knxwledge - "Kendrick Lamar - Momma" Week 15 - Timbaland - "JAY Z - Big Pimpin'" Week 16 - Swizz Beatz - "DMX - Ruff Ryders Anthem" Week 17 - Flying Lotus - "Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me" Week 18 - Hit-Boy - "JAY Z & Kanye West - Niggas in Paris" Week 19 - Pete Rock - "Pete Rock & CL Smoth - T.R.O.Y." Week 20 - 9th Wonder - "Anderson .Paak - The Season/Carry Me" Week 21 - El-P - "Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy" Week 22 - Boi-1da - "Drake - Pound Cake" Week 23 - 2016 - "Danny Brown - Ain't It Funny" Week 24 - Q-Tip - "Nas - One Love" Week 25 - No I.D. - "Big Sean - Control" Week 26 - Clams Casino - "Lil B - I'm God" Week 27 - DJ Shadow - "DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World" Week 28 - MF DOOM - "MF DOOM - Hoe Cakes" Week 29 - Nujabes - "Nujabes - Feather" Week 30 - Havoc - "Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt. II" Week 31 - Organized Noize - "Outkast - Da Art of Story Tellin' Pt. 1" Week 32 - KAYTRANADA - "KAYTRANADA - Glowed Up" Week 33 - Tyler, The Creator - "Tyler The Creator - Rusty"
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The Weekly [Fresh]ness - week of Sunday, November 11, 2018

Sunday, November 11, 2018
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[FRESH] Zillakami x Danon the Producer - SHOOTINPHOTOS link +116 Jared_Rollins
[FRESH] Ecco2K - Don't Ask (Quick Slip) link +104 leFrostii
[FRESH] Lil Wayne feat. Post Malone - What About Me Remix link +62 serialchiller420
[FRESH] QUADECA x B.LOU - Unusual link +41 dcheng47
Monday, November 12, 2018
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[FRESH] iLoveMakonnen - Twisted (feat. Lil Peep) link +524 HappyHandel
[FRESH VIDEO] Roy Woods - Snow White link +259 NoFlexZone6
[FRESH] Na-kel Smith - A LOVE SONG FOR YOU link +185 loverspetunia
[FRESH] Lil durk - Don’t Talk To Me feat. Gunna & Juice WRLD link +148 Flushy_
[FRESH VIDEO] nothing,nowhere. - dread link +103 Skit7
[FRESH MERCH] KIDS SEE GHOSTS MERCH link +27 XxScytherxX
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
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[Fresh] Mike Will Made It ft Kendrick Lamar & Pharrell Williams- The Mantra link +615 ape124
[FRESH] $uicideboy$ - Scrape link +311 Smiis
[FRESH MUSIC VIDEO] Moneybagg Yo - Say Na ft. J. Cole link +140 Acisius
[FRESH] Big Ghost - The Black Album Revisited (Jay-Z remix) link +66 AarbyPls
[FRESH] Benny The Butcher - Joe Pesci 38 (prod. by Daringer) link +60 giraffeking
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
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[FRESH VIDEO] Yung Lean - friday the 13th link +633 sereneflash
[FRESH VIDEO] Juicy J - Neighbor (feat. Travis Scott) link +526 sereneflash
[FRESH VIDEO] Mick Jenkins - Reginald (feat. Ben Hixton) link +431 sereneflash
[FRESH ALBUM] Warhol.ss - Chest Pains link +407 gimmeyopublishing
[FRESH] Kendrick Lamar & Pharrell Williams - The Mantra (prod. Mike WiLL Made-It ) link +196 HipHopSongs
[FRESH VIDEO] Asher Roth - Mommydog link +78 SlappyBag9
[FRESH] $UICIDEBOY$ - Scrape link +73 Bman5299
[FRESH] Ghostface Killah feat. Raekwon, Masta Killa & Cappadonna – Watch ‘Em Holla (Bronze Nazareth Remix) link +65 serialchiller420
[FRESH VIDEO] Danger Incorporated - Superstars link +49 tunedketamine
[FRESH VIDEO] Mick Jenkins "Reginald" link +41 bjzisook
Thursday, November 15, 2018
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[FRESH] TYLER, THE CREATOR - LIGHTS ON link +3264 sereneflash
[FRESH VIDEO] NASIR - The Film link +1008 Gotham_Ashes
[FRESH] Gucci Mane - I’m Not Goin’ (feat. Kevin Gates) link +696 sereneflash
[Fresh Video] Maxo Kream - Roaches link +603 NewTownBull
[FRESH] Ol' Dirty Bastard - Intoxicated (ft. Raekwon, Method Man, Macy Gray) link +365 ILoveIndividualError
[FRESH ALBUM] Creed II: The Album - Mike WiLL Made-it link +168 suarim16
[FRESH VIDEO] Choker - Starfruit LA link +157 blondfold
[FRESH] Clams Casino - Healing link +137 bangsjamin
[FRESH] Normani - Waves (Feat. 6LACK) link +136 bobflatearth
[FRESH] Gunna x M Huncho x Nafe Smallz - Broken Homes link +67 lurkbender
[FRESH VIDEO] BONES - ThisGameIsRigged link +59 GiveItSomeTime
[FRESH] Gucci Mane ft. Kevin Gates - I'm Not Goin' link +52 XIJ3S0NXX385
[FRESH EP] Tyler, The Creator - Music Inspired by Illumination & Dr Seuss’s The Grinch link +51 brckhmptnbible
[FRESH ALUBM] Mike WiLL - Creed II : The Album link +51 renges
[FRESH ALBUM] 88GLAM - 88GLAM2 link +38 YungSrover
[FRESH VIDEO] Wifisfuneral - Been 2 Hell & Back link +33 Twisted_Lobster
[FRESH] Mach Hommy & Tha God Fahim - NOTORIOUS DUMP LEGENDS link +28 MetroZumoff
[FRESH] Millie Go Lightly - Gold Chain link +28 BOLMoney
[FRESH] Watsky - Mean Ass Drunk link +26 im_so_not_creative
Friday, November 16, 2018
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[FRESH] Anderson .Paak - Oxnard link +10218 fireneeb
[FRESH VIDEO) MF DOOM - One Beer link +3813 paranorman_activity
[FRESH EP] Tyler, The Creator - Music Inspired By Illumination & Dr. Seuss' The Grinch link +1861 hulksreddit
[FRESH EP] Big K.R.I.T. - Thrice X link +1607 zcrates66
[FRESH] Saba - Beautiful Smile (feat. IDK) link +1006 arielgreenwood
[FRESH ALBUM] 88GLAM - 88GLAM2 link +853 88of2000
[FRESH ALBUM] Mike Will Made-It - Creed II: The Album link +848 bobflatearth
[FRESH] Anderson .Paak - Brother’s Keeper (ft. Pusha-T) link +736 tvanek26
[FRESH] Anderson .Paak - Trippy (ft. J. Cole) link +406 scarysite
[FRESH] Kodak Black - Take One link +395 chriscantrap
[FRESH] Anderson .Paak - Cheers (ft. Q-Tip) link +300 mrc96
[FRESH] 2 Chainz - Hot Wings / Girl's Best Friend (feat. Ty Dolla $ign) link +262 MikeChecker
[FRESH] J.K. The Reaper - Moon (feat. Denzel Curry) link +187 unscrambleme
[FRESH ALBUM] Montana of 300 - A Gun in The Teacher's Desk link +157 Ezzy1998
[FRESH VIDEO] XXXTENTACION & Lil Pump - Arms Around You (feat. Maluma & Swae Lee) link +154 Usernamesin2016LUL
[FRESH] TM88, Southside & Gunna - Order link +117 bobflatearth
[FRESH] Kemba ft. Smino - Exhale link +93 Snorlax_spiritanimal
[FRESH] Wicca Phase Spring Eternal - Waiting Here Feat. Lil B link +74 zodiacal_dust
[FRESH] Shea Butter Baby - J. Cole & Ari Lennox off the Creed II soundtrack link +72 issssaaaac
[FRESH] Logic - Freestyle Friday’s Vol. 3 link +70 tvanek26
[FRESH ALBUM] Anderson .Paak - Oxnard link +68 triumphant_return
[FRESH EP] Amir Obè - Can't Be A ____ Here: Chapter 3 link +63 LedditIsHilarious
[FRESH/ORIGINAL] BOOKS - today I just sat down -- 19 y/o Chicago college rapper link +62 readup98
[FRESH ALBUM] 24hrs - Houses On The Hill link +58 gimmeyopublishing
[FRESH ALBUM] Z-Ro - Sadism link +56 dadouks
[Fresh EP] Big K.R.I.T. - THRICE X link +49 7alexbruno
[Fresh Album] J.K. The Reaper - Surrounded by Idiots link +46 Morty01x
[FRESH] Wicca Phase Springs Eternal - ‎Waiting Here (feat. Lil B) link +36 EPineapple
[FRESH] Mariah Carey - Stay Long Love You (feat. Gunna) link +34 FeverythingLnothing
[FRESH] Kemba - Exhale (feat. Smino) link +32 ThugginOnTheInternet
[FRESH VIDEO] MF DOOM - One Beer link +30 311Cons_Theorist
[Fresh] Key Glock - Yea!! (Prod. Tay Keith) link +30 FreexBrennen
[FRESH] The Lox - Never Over link +29 bobflatearth
[FRESH ALBUM] Kenny Beats & ALLBLACK - 2 Minute Drills link +28 Flaxbeard
[FRESH ALBUM] City Girls - Girl Code link +27 bobflatearth
[FRESH ALBUM] Anderson .Paak - Oxnard link +25 jazzstripe
Saturday, November 17, 2018
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[FRESH] Jaden Smith - The Sunset Tapes: A Cool Tape Story link +1218 nikkilulz
[FRESH] Anderson .Paak - 6 Summers link +1112 brazilbruno
[FRESH] lil tracy - filet mignon link +294 xamdzcx
[FRESH] Jaden Smith - SOHO link +220 rd4vis
[FRESH] Jaden Smith - The Sunset Tapes: A Cool Tape Story link +214 AliensAMenace
[FRESH ALBUM] Brainfeeder - Brainfeeder X link +203 mikeest
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Artist: Kelela
Album: Take Me Apart
Released: October 6, 2017
Listen: Spotify / Apple Music
BIOGRAPHY!
Kelela Mizanekristos was born in Washington, D.C. on June 6, 1983. She's a proud Ethiopian American, and is very knowledgable of her roots and her culture (Take Me Apart's cover has her name written in one of Ethiopia's languages). She grew up in the suburbs, and she listened to R&B, jazz and Björk growing up. She's a black, queer woman, and she has no shame about incorporing her personal life into her art. She has released three projects so far: her mixtape, Cut 4 Me was released in 2013 and launched her career, with overwhelming positive reviews and acclaim from Solange and Bjork herself. It was included in several publications' Year End lists, reaching the top 10 in Time and The Guardian's. In 2015 she released her EP Hallucinogen to, again, very positive reviews. She worked with Arca and BOOTS for the first time, and the lead single "Rewind" became her 'breakthrough' of sorts for its upbeat and energetic nature. Her critical acclaim and hype earned her some high profile collaborations in 2016 and 2017, with features on Clams Casino, Danny Brown, Solange and Gorillaz's albums. Her debut album Take Me Apart finally arrived on 2017, after four years of working on it. It was instantly praised as her best work yet, from critics and fans alike and it became her first charting project, reaching #128 on the Billboard 200. Lead single "LMK" followed "Rewind"'s steps as a fun and uptempo single, and became one of her biggest hits as well.
MY ALBUM ANALYSIS!
With Take Me Apart, Kelela wanted to re-write an old ideal, something that's been so written and sung about that it's hard to find something new to say - what it means to be in love, and what it means to fall out of love, and back again and out again. Like her inspirations, mainly R&B artists such as Janet and Michael (but also Phil Collins), Kelela is not only interested in the sexual implications of being with someone, which are definitely present in this album, but also the emotional weight and the devastating impact that relationships that sometimes work and sometimes don't have on people. Even talking about some tracks makes Kelela start crying. She has lived this record. By completely opening up and sharing her weak and strong sides throughout this amazing concept album, Kelela invites us to take her apart, so that's what we'll do.
It's inevitable to compare this record to Beyoncé's 2016 masterpiece "Lemonade" (or it would be had I not completely overplayed, analyzed and explored both albums). Both give us an unique and personal perspective of being angry, being black, being happy, in love, forgiving other's bullshit, hoping to be forgiven, and simply not giving a fuck. By not giving a fuck is exactly how Take Me Apart starts. "Frontline" introduces us to Kelela's mastermind, and it starts with the end of a relationship. When you've been with someone you love and it starts going sour there's a lot of internal conflict - should we end it? How will he react? Is it worth it? She compares this feeling of being near the verge of breaking up to being on the front line of a battle. You're most likely going to die - the question is when. There's a feeling of being held back that she fights, but after all this turmoil she comes out on top and ends it with a smile on her face, while her ex cries and pleads her back. The song ends with Kelela walking away, presumably from her ex, entering her car and driving away, implying she moved on.
But do we ever move on? We might tell ourselves that we're over a person, that what they do doesn't bother us anymore, but then we see their name, something that reminds us of them, or god forbid, them in person, and it sets off this strange feeling of our stomach turning over and our brain giving us flashbacks of the good and the bad moments that happened between us. "Waitin" is about that moment, when you're meeting the ex again after some months, talking to them, and realizing that maybe we made a mistake by letting each other go, that you should try to do everything again, even though it caused everyone so much pain and resentment.
And you reach the point where you're back at square one, cloud nine with this person: you're sneaking in each other's house and leaving before dawn so nobody knows you were there, you have hot, passionate sex and, most importantly, you reach a new and deeper level of understanding - "try to tell you one thing/and then you just read my mind". You're telling your partner everything that was left unsaid before the split, and there's a bigger sense of passion for each other. With the title of this record, Kelela was referencing the overarching story and concept, but in its title track, the meaning is more visceral and primal - in this moment of the relationship, you are taking each other apart, exploring new corners of the body and the soul that were perhaps never touched before. One thing I haven't mentioned yet, probably because I'm so immersed in the story of the record, is the production - this particular track was made piece by piece by six professional producers, including Arca (Bjork, FKA twigs, Kanye West), kwes (Solange) and Ariel Rechtshaid (Adele, Charli XCX, Sky Ferreira, HAIM, Vampire Weekend...). The complexity and intricacity of this track in particular is extraordinary, with a sense of urgency building in the pre-chorus, only to explode in the chorus with a dizzying collection of beats and moans. It's probably my favorite track in this record.
The brighest flame burns quickest, and we see Kelela standing where we met her - breaking up, again. This time we're in a different position than we were in "Frontline", even though she describes them as 'sister' tracks. There's a clear vulnerability displayed here, and she describes it as a "sadder leaving". You can feel the emotional stress that she's going through, the frustration of going through another breakup, and the self doubt that she feels - "will love ruin my heart?". "Jupiter" is a dreamy, short interlude and it comes at a point when Kelela is feeling completely isolated, but motivated to pick herself up and move forward for good. The title of this song comes from a Jupiter synth that her and her producers found at the basement of an hotel she was staying in - it transmits to me a cold feeling that I think matches the theme pretty wonderfully.
Something that we almost never hear about after relationships is keeping the friendship - a lot of the time, there are too many feelings of hatred or disgust towards the other person that makes it impossible to keep talking to them. That's what Kelela attempts to do on the closing song of the first half of this record, "Better". The track is about not only reconciling with your ex, but with yourself: "I know it made me betteAren't we better now?".
So Kelela has reached a midway point in her story, where she's single and ready to mingle. That's where the lead single "LMK" comes in - a sensual but affirming ode to one night stands, as long as they're respectful. We see her at a club, approaching and being approached by people, and I personally get the vibe that she's kinda frustrated by this person who doesn't say or do the right things, and that there's a LOT of shade being thrown, but she chases them anyways. And even in this hook up situation there's a lot of love and care given by Kelela, even if it's not reciprocated. In the end, she asks the other party to "let her know" if this 'fling' is something that they want to go forward with and explore deeper, or if they don't really care about it and it's a simple one night stand. Both answers are okay - "it ain't that deep, by the way". This bouncy jam has the same producers as most of the album, which helps give it a sense of consistency, but I think it's her most radio-friendly and accessible track.
A few dates later, Kelela details the first sexual encounter with her new lover. She describes it as a "game", more specifically, truth or dare. It's essentially a sexual and flirty track where they're exploring each other for the first time, playing with eacher other's fantasies and bodies. The lust flows onto the next interlude "S.O.S.", which is essentially a late night booty call, and "Blue Light", the second single off this project. In this tune, we see her diving headfirst into this new relationship. Whereas she previously held back emotionally, she's dropping her chains and confessing all her feelings to her new lover.
Another of this album's highlights for me is "Onanon". Throughout a classic glitchy and cracking Arca beat with a gorgeous string section that evokes the feeling of exasperation in the lyrics and harmonies, Kelela details one of the first and biggest fights of the couple. She calls out not only her lover's faults, but her own, and there's an overwhelming feeling of permanent discontent, doubt and anger, to the point where she says she's got the taste of her tears down. The constant breaking up and getting back again can be extremely stressful, like you're in a never ending cycle.
"Turn To Dust" covers the last moments of the relationship, or as she puts it, 'right before "Frontline"', when she feels like she has nothing left to give while her lover is 'bottled up inside', not sharing enough, holding back. This feels very contradictory to her very vulnerable side: she's willing to share her soul but her lover denies that. This track was co-written with The XX's Remy Croft, which is a fun fact. Personally, this is my least favorite song in this album and I skip it almost every time. I guess I find it too slow and not really captivating after the first minute or so. The last track in this story is another interlude, "Bluff". After their disagreement on the previous track, her lover says they're leaving her and she challenges them to stay and open up, one last time. It works.
The last song in the album, much like the previously mentioned "Lemonade", is not about the overarching relationship story, but about black women:
“I’m specifically thinking about black women who are just like on their grind and operating in spaces where they’re not appreciated and its just a message for those people so that they can feel like it’s worth pursuing and pushing”
I can't talk about what it means to be an underappreciated black woman, and the message is pretty straightforward. I'll say that this is a very beautiful and dreamy closer and it works perfectly.
MY THOUGHTS ON THIS ALBUM!
I have loved Kelela since about 2015 when I first listened to "The High" from her Hallucinogen EP on one of my 8tracks (rip) music discovery sessions. Now I know it's not one of the best songs from her amazing EP, but at the time I was mesmerized by the pulsating beat and the mellow, spacey, bedroom/soundcloud production that drew me in to artists such as Tinashe and FKA twigs and is now plaguing your Discover Weekly playlists. She quickly became one of my favorite artists and I have checked for her ever since. I saw her live in 2016 (which is a big deal for me since nobody wants to tour in my country!) and it was an ethereal experience, listening to her hit all those high notes. I narrowly missed on a selfie with her sadly!
So, fast forward to 2017...needless to say, I was super excited when she announced her debut album, and listening to it really clicked with me and made me feel understood in a certain way? I'm a very emotional person, I feel things intensely, but I'm not the best at expressing how I feel, which is why albums like this resonate so hard with me. I feel like Kelela does an amazing job at conveying her emotions and her vulnerable side, and I definitely connect to her a lot of the time. She has a hard time explaining some songs due to the emotional weight attached to them, and it's a hard listen for me too. There's a lot of memories that her lyrics bring up and they're not always pretty ones.
The production is fucking bonkers, I don't even know how to explain it. It just suits the tracks so well, and what she's trying to say, there's no disconnect. A casual pop fan would probably find it 'boring' and too same-y, I believe, but the industrial and futuristic R&B approach they have is absolutely gorgeous and they are able to draw some of her influences - Janet, Aaliyah, Sade - and transport it not to 2017, but to 3017. A lot of these tracks have an explosive chorus that is executed with a sharp precision.
It's my absolute favorite album of 2017 and I'm honored I was picked to do this write up.
Some of my favorite lyrics in this record:
Frontline
Could be winter but I burn inside
Waitin
Will you stay now?
'Cause winter's always warmer when you're round
Better
Though I'm in love with it, I will amputate
S.O.S.
I could touch myself, bae
But it's not the same
If you could stop and help me out
Onanon
Fight all the tears, I got the tears down
The type when your life is deep into the ground
and
It doesn't help I watch your every single move
Like I wanna fight with you
Essential Tracks: LMK, Onanon, Blue Light, Take Me Apart
Deep Cuts: Truth or Dare, Jupiter, S.O.S., Altadena
DISCUSSION POINTS!
  1. How can Kelela further evolve her sound?
  2. Why is Kelela still very 'niche' in comparison to her alt-r&b peers, such as FKA twigs or SZA?
  3. How well do you think Kelela told her 'story' throughout this album?
  4. Do you think Kelela broke the paradox of sounding 90's and 3000's at the same time?
  5. Overall thoughts/fav tracks/any other comment?
Sorry these questions are trash lol I'm out of creativity
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Best Beats 2.0, Week 27 - DJ Shadow

The sample king is this week's best beats!
Background: DJ Shadow (born Josh Davis) is widely credited as a key figure in developing the experimental instrumental hip-hop style associated with the London-based Mo' Wax label. Inspired by hip-hop's early years, he then grew to absorb the heyday of crews like Eric B. & Rakim, Ultramagnetic MCs, and Public Enemy; groups which prominently featured DJs in their ranks.
Josh "Shadow" Davis had already been fiddling around with making beats and breaks on a four-track recorder while he was in high school in the NorCal cow-town of Davis, but it was during college that he co-founded his own Solesides label as an outlet for his original tracks. Hooking up with Davis' few b-boys (including eventual Solesides artists Blackalicious and Lyrics Born) through the college radio station, Shadow began releasing the Hip-Hop Reconstruction mix tapes in 1991 and pressed his 17-minute beat-head symphony "Entropy" in 1993. His tracks spread widely through the DJ-strong hip-hop underground, eventually catching the attention of Mo' Wax.
Shadow's first full-length, "Endtroducing...", was released in late 1996 to immense critical acclaim in Britain and America. "Preemptive Strike," a compilation of early singles, followed in early 1998. Later that year, Shadow produced tracks for the debut album by U.N.K.L.E., a long-time Mo' Wax production team that gained superstar guests including Thom Yorke (of Radiohead), Richard Ashcroft (of the Verve), Mike D (of the Beastie Boys), and others.
His next project came in 1999, with the transformation of Solesides into a new label, Quannum Projects. Nearly six years after his debut production album, the proper follow-up, "The Private Press," was released in June 2002. The following year Shadow released a mix album, "Diminishing Returns," and in 2004 he released a live album and DVD, "Live! In Tune and on Time." In 2006 he released another long awaited full-length album "The Outsider," which featured rising Bay Area Hyphy rappers including Keak Da Sneak and E-40. "The Outsider" also featured a single with Q-Tip (of A Tribe Called Quest), which led to Shadow's first appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman.
Between 2007 and 2009 Shadow released three volumes of "The 4-Track Era Collection," a series of his earliest recordings. The 4-Track Era project was exclusively available through his web store, ShopDjShadow.com. In the midst of all of these solo projects, DJ Shadow collaborated with fellow hip-hop DJ Cut Chemist. Together they created a series of mixes that fused soul, funk, and rock, in the framework of a cohesive concept involving using only 45 rpm records (7 inches). These mixes include Brainfreeze, Product Placement, and The Hard Sell, which would be debuted at the Hollywood Bowl.
Shadow's website relaunched in August 2009, enabling him to sell digital downloads direct to his fans through his own autonomous storefront. 2009 also saw the announcement of Shadow's involvement with DJ Hero, an Activision video game which features Shadow as a playable character within the game. Shadow also contributed several mixes to the game.
2010 and 2011 saw a tour throughout Europe and North America entitled "Live From The Shadowsphere."
In 2011, DJ Shadow released "The Less You Know, The Better," a much anticipated full-length studio album, which met massive acclaim. 2012 included Shadow's heralded "All Basses Covered" DJ set-tour, as well as "Total Breakdown, Hidden Transmissions From The MPC Era (1992-1996)," an archival project; and "Reconstructed: Best of DJ Shadow," a greatest hits album.
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Week 5 - Dr. Dre - "Dr. Dre - Still Dre" Week 6 - RZA - "GZA - 4th Chamber" Week 7 - Noah "40" Shebib - "Drake - Tuscan Leather" Week 8 - Pharrell Williams/The Neptunes - "Clipse - Grindin" Week 9 - DJ Premier - "Royce da 5'9 - Boom" Week 10 - Zaytoven - "Future - Oooooh" Week 11 - The Alchemist - "Mac Miller - Red Dot Music" Week 12 - Mike Will Made It - "Future - Move That Dope" Week 13 - DJ Dahi - "Kendrick Lamar - Money Trees" Week 14 - Knxwledge - "Kendrick Lamar - Momma" Week 15 - Timbaland - "JAY Z - Big Pimpin'" Week 16 - Swizz Beatz - "DMX - Ruff Ryders Anthem" Week 17 - Flying Lotus - "Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me" Week 18 - Hit-Boy - "JAY Z & Kanye West - Niggas in Paris" Week 19 - Pete Rock - "Pete Rock & CL Smoth - T.R.O.Y." Week 20 - 9th Wonder - "Anderson .Paak - The Season/Carry Me" Week 21 - El-P - "Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy" Week 22 - Boi-1da - "Drake - Pound Cake" Week 23 - 2016 - "Danny Brown - Ain't It Funny" Week 24 - Q-Tip - "Nas - One Love" Week 25 - No I.D. - "Big Sean - Control" Week 26 - Clams Casino - "Lil B - I'm God"
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Best Beats 2.0, Week 33 - Tyler, The Creator

Odd Futures very own Tyler is this week's best Beats!
Background: Tyler Gregory Okonma (born March 6, 1991), better known by his stage name Tyler, The Creator, is an American rapper, record producer, and music video director. Born in Ladera Heights, California, he rose to prominence as the leader and co-founder of the alternative hip hop collective Odd Future and has rapped on and produced songs for nearly every Odd Future release. Okonma creates all the artwork for the group's releases and designs the group's clothing and other merchandise as well.
After releasing his debut album Goblin under XL Recordings, in April 2011, he signed a joint venture deal for him and his label Odd Future Records, with RED Distribution and Sony Music Entertainment. Following that he released his second studio album Wolf, which was met with generally positive reviews and debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200 selling 90,000 copies in its first week. He has his own clothing company, called Golf Wang, started in 2011, and a carnival, named Camp Flog Gnaw, hosted annually since 2012. He runs his own streaming service Golf Media, Camp Flog Gnaw streams there yearly and contains original scripted series from Tyler himself.
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Past 20 Week Results:
Week 12 - Mike Will Made It - "Future - Move That Dope" Week 13 - DJ Dahi - "Kendrick Lamar - Money Trees" Week 14 - Knxwledge - "Kendrick Lamar - Momma" Week 15 - Timbaland - "JAY Z - Big Pimpin'" Week 16 - Swizz Beatz - "DMX - Ruff Ryders Anthem" Week 17 - Flying Lotus - "Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me" Week 18 - Hit-Boy - "JAY Z & Kanye West - Niggas in Paris" Week 19 - Pete Rock - "Pete Rock & CL Smoth - T.R.O.Y." Week 20 - 9th Wonder - "Anderson .Paak - The Season/Carry Me" Week 21 - El-P - "Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy" Week 22 - Boi-1da - "Drake - Pound Cake" Week 23 - 2016 - "Danny Brown - Ain't It Funny" Week 24 - Q-Tip - "Nas - One Love" Week 25 - No I.D. - "Big Sean - Control" Week 26 - Clams Casino - "Lil B - I'm God" Week 27 - DJ Shadow - "DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World" Week 28 - MF DOOM - "MF DOOM - Hoe Cakes" Week 29 - Nujabes - "Nujabes - Feather" Week 30 - Havoc - "Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt. II" Week 31 - Organized Noize - "Outkast - Da Art of Story Tellin' Pt. 1" Week 32 - KAYTRANADA - "KAYTRANADA - Glowed Up"
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Best Beats 2.0, Week 36 - Cardo

Oe of todays hottest producer is this week's best beats!
Background: Cardo was born September 24, 1984 and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. Cardo then moved to Fort Worth, Texas.[2]
In 2010, Cardo was producing for Mac Miller and Chevy Woods and subsequently met Wiz Khalifa at a show in Texas through Chevy Woods and his Uncle Motor. Cardo gave Khalifa a couple of his beats, which would end up on Khalifa's Kush & Orange Juice mixtape.[3] Cardo then started producing for other artists.[4]
Cardo is the founder and current CEO of Everything is Gold Music (EISG). Cardo was previously a member of, and producer on, Taylor Gang Records, and currently signed to Fool's Gold Records.[5] He has produced on many rappers albums and singles including 2 Chainz, Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Wiz Khalifa, R. Kelly, Jeezy, Jay Z, Frank Dukes and Swizz Beatz, among others.[6]
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Past 20 Week Results:
Week 15 - Timbaland - "JAY Z - Big Pimpin'" Week 16 - Swizz Beatz - "DMX - Ruff Ryders Anthem" Week 17 - Flying Lotus - "Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me" Week 18 - Hit-Boy - "JAY Z & Kanye West - Niggas in Paris" Week 19 - Pete Rock - "Pete Rock & CL Smoth - T.R.O.Y." Week 20 - 9th Wonder - "Anderson .Paak - The Season/Carry Me" Week 21 - El-P - "Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy" Week 22 - Boi-1da - "Drake - Pound Cake" Week 23 - 2016 - "Danny Brown - Ain't It Funny" Week 24 - Q-Tip - "Nas - One Love" Week 25 - No I.D. - "Big Sean - Control" Week 26 - Clams Casino - "Lil B - I'm God" Week 27 - DJ Shadow - "DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World" Week 28 - MF DOOM - "MF DOOM - Hoe Cakes" Week 29 - Nujabes - "Nujabes - Feather" Week 30 - Havoc - "Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt. II" Week 31 - Organized Noize - "Outkast - Da Art of Story Tellin' Pt. 1" Week 32 - KAYTRANADA - "KAYTRANADA - Glowed Up" Week 33 - Tyler, The Creator - "Tyler The Creator - Rusty" Week 34 - Lex Luger - "Wakka Flocka Flame - Hard in the Paint" Week 35 - Danger Mouse - "DangerDoom - Crosshairs"
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Best Beats 2.0, Week 37 - randomblackdude a.k.a. Earl Sweatshirt

Odd Future's very own Earl is this week's best beats.
Background: Earl Sweatshirt, is an American recording artist, record producer, singer and songwriter from Los Angeles, California. He originally went by the moniker Sly Tendencies in 2008, but soon changed it when Tyler, The Creator invited him to join his hip hop collective Odd Future in late 2009. He gained recognition and critical praise for his debut mixtape Earl, released in March 2010. Following its release, his mother sent him to a boarding school in Samoa until his eighteenth birthday, and he was not able to produce new music for a year and a half.
After returning to Los Angeles in February 2012, Earl rejoined Odd Future and started producing new music. Earl released his debut studio album, Doris in August 2013. His sophomore album, I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt followed in March 2015. Both received widespread critical acclaim. He is currently signed to Columbia Records as well as his independent label Tan Cressida. As well as to his solo and Odd Future careers, Earl is also one half of EarlWolf with Tyler, The Creator, one half of Sweaty Martians with Matt Martians, and one half of Hog Slaughta Boyz with Na'kel.
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Week 16 - Swizz Beatz - "DMX - Ruff Ryders Anthem" Week 17 - Flying Lotus - "Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me" Week 18 - Hit-Boy - "JAY Z & Kanye West - Niggas in Paris" Week 19 - Pete Rock - "Pete Rock & CL Smoth - T.R.O.Y." Week 20 - 9th Wonder - "Anderson .Paak - The Season/Carry Me" Week 21 - El-P - "Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy" Week 22 - Boi-1da - "Drake - Pound Cake" Week 23 - 2016 - "Danny Brown - Ain't It Funny" Week 24 - Q-Tip - "Nas - One Love" Week 25 - No I.D. - "Big Sean - Control" Week 26 - Clams Casino - "Lil B - I'm God" Week 27 - DJ Shadow - "DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World" Week 28 - MF DOOM - "MF DOOM - Hoe Cakes" Week 29 - Nujabes - "Nujabes - Feather" Week 30 - Havoc - "Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt. II" Week 31 - Organized Noize - "Outkast - Da Art of Story Tellin' Pt. 1" Week 32 - KAYTRANADA - "KAYTRANADA - Glowed Up" Week 33 - Tyler, The Creator - "Tyler The Creator - Rusty" Week 34 - Lex Luger - "Wakka Flocka Flame - Hard in the Paint" Week 35 - Danger Mouse - "DangerDoom - Crosshairs" Week 36 - Cardo - "Kendrick Lamar - Untitled 02"
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Best Beats 2.0, Week 35 - Danger Mouse

The mouse is this week's best vbeats!
Background: anger Mouse, is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. He came to prominence in 2004 when he released The Grey Album, which combined vocal performances from Jay-Z's The Black Album with instrumentals from The Beatles' The Beatles (aka the White Album).
He formed Gnarls Barkley with CeeLo Green and produced its albums St. Elsewhere and The Odd Couple. In 2009 he collaborated with James Mercer of the indie rock band The Shins to form the band Broken Bells. In addition, Burton worked with rapper MF Doom as Danger Doom and released the album The Mouse and the Mask.
As a producer Danger Mouse produced the second Gorillaz album, 2005's Demon Days, as well as Beck's 2008 record Modern Guilt and three albums with The Black Keys (Attack & Release, El Camino and Turn Blue). In 2016, Danger Mouse produced, performed on and co-wrote songs for the eleventh studio album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers titled The Getaway. Danger Mouse has also produced and co-written albums by Norah Jones (Little Broken Hearts), Electric Guest (Mondo), Portugal. The Man (Evil Friends), Adele (25), and ASAP Rocky's (At.Long.Last.ASAP (ALLA)). He has been nominated for 19 Grammy Awards and has won 6. He's been nominated in the Producer of the Year category five times, and won the award in 2011.
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Past 20 Week Results:
Week 14 - Knxwledge - "Kendrick Lamar - Momma" Week 15 - Timbaland - "JAY Z - Big Pimpin'" Week 16 - Swizz Beatz - "DMX - Ruff Ryders Anthem" Week 17 - Flying Lotus - "Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me" Week 18 - Hit-Boy - "JAY Z & Kanye West - Niggas in Paris" Week 19 - Pete Rock - "Pete Rock & CL Smoth - T.R.O.Y." Week 20 - 9th Wonder - "Anderson .Paak - The Season/Carry Me" Week 21 - El-P - "Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy" Week 22 - Boi-1da - "Drake - Pound Cake" Week 23 - 2016 - "Danny Brown - Ain't It Funny" Week 24 - Q-Tip - "Nas - One Love" Week 25 - No I.D. - "Big Sean - Control" Week 26 - Clams Casino - "Lil B - I'm God" Week 27 - DJ Shadow - "DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World" Week 28 - MF DOOM - "MF DOOM - Hoe Cakes" Week 29 - Nujabes - "Nujabes - Feather" Week 30 - Havoc - "Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt. II" Week 31 - Organized Noize - "Outkast - Da Art of Story Tellin' Pt. 1" Week 32 - KAYTRANADA - "KAYTRANADA - Glowed Up" Week 33 - Tyler, The Creator - "Tyler The Creator - Rusty" Week 34 - Lex Luger - "Wakka Flocka Flame - Hard in the Paint"
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Best Beats 2.0, Week 31 - Organized Noize

The A's very own Organized Noize is this week's best beats!
Background: Among the hit records they have worked on include TLC's "Waterfalls", En Vogue's "Don't Let Go (Love)", and Ludacris' "Saturday (Oooh Ooooh)". They are most notable for producing a large amount of material for OutKast (including all of Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik and "So Fresh, So Clean" from Stankonia) and Goodie Mob (including all of Soul Food and "They Don't Dance No Mo" from Still Standing). Both groups are part of Organized Noize's Dungeon Family collective, which also includes Slimm Cutta Calhoun and Joi, among others.
They also contributed on the soundtrack of the 1996 critically acclaimed heist film Set It Off. In 2006, they contributed additional music to the film Miami Vice. In 2010 they produced several songs on the critically acclaimed Island/Def Jam solo debut from Big Boi titled Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty. In 2011, they produced the album Nappy Dot Org for Nappy Roots.
The documentary feature The Art of Organized Noize premiered on Netflix on March 22, 2016.
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Past 20 Week Results:
Week 10 - Zaytoven - "Future - Oooooh" Week 11 - The Alchemist - "Mac Miller - Red Dot Music" Week 12 - Mike Will Made It - "Future - Move That Dope" Week 13 - DJ Dahi - "Kendrick Lamar - Money Trees" Week 14 - Knxwledge - "Kendrick Lamar - Momma" Week 15 - Timbaland - "JAY Z - Big Pimpin'" Week 16 - Swizz Beatz - "DMX - Ruff Ryders Anthem" Week 17 - Flying Lotus - "Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me" Week 18 - Hit-Boy - "JAY Z & Kanye West - Niggas in Paris" Week 19 - Pete Rock - "Pete Rock & CL Smoth - T.R.O.Y." Week 20 - 9th Wonder - "Anderson .Paak - The Season/Carry Me" Week 21 - El-P - "Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy" Week 22 - Boi-1da - "Drake - Pound Cake" Week 23 - 2016 - "Danny Brown - Ain't It Funny" Week 24 - Q-Tip - "Nas - One Love" Week 25 - No I.D. - "Big Sean - Control" Week 26 - Clams Casino - "Lil B - I'm God" Week 27 - DJ Shadow - "DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World" Week 28 - MF DOOM - "MF DOOM - Hoe Cakes" Week 29 - Nujabes - "Nujabes - Feather" Week 30 - Havoc - "Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt. II"
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[Table] I am a Music Producer who works for Atlantic Records. AMA

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Date: 2012-12-21
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1) How much sex, drugs, and boozing goes on in the studio? 1) Sex. Never seen it. heard of it, never seen it. Drugs. On occasion. Boozing. I've been known to have a Whiskey neat while in the studio, nothing overboard.
2) How do you deal with all the over-inflated egos? 2)Usually tend to treat them like children.
3) How much do you make a year? 3)More than $30k less than $200k haha.
4) How does someone with zero experience get into your line of work? 4)Youtube. There's a goldmine of tutorials.
5) What is the biggest perk/downfall of your job? 5) Perk: Travel! I love to travel! Downfall: People from my past "suddenly remembering" we're best friends.
6) Do you believe in any illuminati conspiracies? 6) A lot of people laugh at that illuminati bullshit. A lot of artists play it up, just to get people talking about their video. It's honestly just a marketing gimmick at this point.
7) What are the keys to being succesfull in your line of work? 7) HARD motherfucking WORK. There's no way around it. You need to spend hours mastering your craft before you'll even be considered.
8) What is the most amount of cash and/or drugs you have seen at once? 8) Cash: 500k at once. Drugs: I honestly try my hardest to stay away from all that shit.
9) Who is the most over-rated music star right now? 9) 2 Chainz & Tyler, the Creator.
10) What is the most degrading thing you have seen someone do to be around a celebrity? 10) I've had girls from my home town offer me untolds amount of sexual favours to have me let them meet their favourite singerappemusician. Girls can honestly be the worst.
2)Usually tend to treat them like children. So, $31,000. Yes I eat babies for 31k.
Can you explain why you name these too? I have below.
Dont you think Tyler's earlier work was good? I do agree that his new stuff is pretty awful. I've just really never been a fan of the guy in general. Just my own personal preference I guess.
I would like to ask you the question #3 again, because as a musician this is actually a line of work I'm considering. I'd rather not put my income out there.
For the first 10 years I made really jack shit. A few decent placements here and there, but nothing I could fully live off of. Now I can help my parents out, pay for my school, and be comfortable.
6) o_- Ʌ THE TRIANGLE.
12) What percent of your success would you attribute to luck/skill? 12) Luck about 30% the other 70% skill.
Oh yeah i can understand why. his childish way of reacting to success along with his cult army of teenagers yelling swag im surprised that i still like his music. I've never seen more white kids drop the N-Word because they think it's acceptable because they want to be edgy like him.
Here's the sad part: I'm gonna go look up this 2 chains guy/thing now. Birthday Song.
Don't ask me why. Just do it.
I wonder if hiphopheads has seen this... Couldn't agree more. If I knew how to cross post, I would have posted in there.
You still go to school? Yes indeed! Currently finishing my Bachelor of Commerce with a concentration in International Management.
That was intended to be a wink. I just realized it's other interpretation. This shit goes deep man... But...we must go deeper.
Finally someone who shares that sentiment. He seems akin to sophmore kids who shout fuck at the mall because it's not the social norm. Honestly, I've never heard it put in better words. Have an up vote.
Fair enough. I appreciate your reply. My pleasure, my friend!
I can't agree more. Have an up vote for agreeing!
By mr. 2 chainz I presume? That would be correct, my good sir.
There's no science to cross posting really. You just post in two subreddits simultaneously and title them cross posts so people know you're giving credit/letting people know the post exists on other subreddits. I'm going to pretend I understood exactly what you just said!
By the way, thanks for the AMA! And not a problem!
Dude, wtf? I didn't do shit to you. I'm sorry man. I'm just at this place in my life where I have to hurt others to feel better about myself.
I feel dirty. I need to balance this out. Who are two artists who you feel are underrated? Underrated artists? Logic - I suggest checking out his song "Numbers" annnd D-Pryde. Great rapper. Young dude. From Canada.
Have you discovered anyone? -Ever had to babysit performers? "Discovered" - No. I've worked with people before they were famous however. Notably - The Weeknd and Conor Maynard (although that was only mixing and mastering some records).
Babysit. Oh God. I've been waiting awhile to tell this story.
One of my jobs in high school was a studio technician at a local studio in my home town. As a studio technician I was basically there to work all the cable running and mic set-ups within the studio. One rainy night (gotta set the mood ;) ) I get a call from the studio manager telling me the normal studio engineer is out of town and they need me to take over for him for this 13 year old girl whose daddy was paying good money to record her demo. So, I raced to the studio, set-up the session and began the recording process. The records were all demo'd and done for her before hand, she literally just had to go in and lay vocals. Now even in my youth I had a good ear of what sounded good and what was terrible (I'm blessed with perfect pitch to top it off). Every take, this girls father would be bouncing around in the studio shouting "THATS THE TAKE! THIS IS THE ONE!". To the point of it becoming incredibly irritating. Now anyone who works in a studio will tell you, singers will rarely ever get it on the first take. After 5 hours of dealing with this, I eventually kicked them out of the studio for the night because I simply couldn't deal with her father.
TL;DR - Father was a Prima Donna - got his ass kicked out of the studio.
Was her name Rebecca Black? Hahahaha. Nope!
5 hours?? I commend your patience. He would have been gone after 5 minutes if I was in there. The worst part is they had booked 3 more sessions. I refused to work with them.
Was the girl's mother a Ma'Donna? Ba dom tisss.
Damn! I thought it would match perfectly! I wouldn't admit it if it was. I'd feel so much shame for not destroying the monster before it almost destroyed the interwebs.
What is it like working for such a large label? Would you rather work for someone else? How did this come about? First, thanks for the first question! I was getting weary that this would get buried!
This is my second label I've worked with directly (through a contract). The first one I was young, naive and signed a stupid contract that did more harm to my career than good. Working for Atlantic is exciting in all honesty. I've never been more comfortable with a major label! I really can't say enough good things about how they've treated me.
Would I rather work for someone else? By "someone else" I'm assuming you mean "another label". That being the case, if the terms of the contract were better than what I currently have with Atlantic, I would not hesitate!
The gist of how this came about is I've been producing music for just over 10 years, and their A&R department eventually contacted me after hearing an earlier placement of mine. They liked my ideas and my sound and offered me a contract to produce in-house. Luck mixed with a lot of handwork!
Hope these are clear and concise enough to answer your questions!
Pro Tools or Logic? One really good tip for newbies? I am an engineer of 3 years and about to begin an internship at an artist's home studio. I'm born and bred on Pro Tools, but I can never undermine Logic. Still a very powerful program.
I'm a big supporter in it doesn't matter WHAT you use, but HOW you use it. If given the option, I'll still rock FL Studio for production then export to Pro Tools for final mixing and mastering (Yes it's tedious, but it's just my style haha)
I'm so familiar and fast with PT now, that I probably won't ever switch. What about any tips? I always tell people, stick with what works best for you and you're most comfortable with.
As for tips. Stockpile as many effects, presets, and VST's as you can. You'll never know when you need that one sound to make a record hot.
Also, spend a good amount of time creating your own Compression, Reverb and EQ presets. This will help create your signature sound.
And just as a general tip for production, have a mobile set-up. ALWAYS. You'll never know when you need to work or have the urge to create!
Good tip, man. I actually have the Waves bundle, and a bunch more other plugins, but simply enjoy the simplicity of stock plugins that I rarely use anything else. I've honestly never used 80% of my effects and VST's but it's good to know they are there if something comes up or styles change!
Where's the future of music producing heading? Is your job threatenetend by the likes of Spotify and other companies similar to it? What's changed since it (Spotify) has come around? The future of Music is bleak and exciting all at the same time. It depends on what perspective you look at it from.
Bleak: Everybody and their Mama is a music producer now. Which has really watered down the quality of music out there. Labels can now by exclusive licenses to records for 19$-35$ then turn around and make a $1,000,000 profit off that song. Not to mention, you can see in a lot of songs out there, mixing, mastering and general creativity is almost stagnant. A prime example of this is the recent song "Pop That" by French Montana. Listening to that song actually hurts my soul if you listen to it with good headphones. The mixing is absolutely horrendous.
Exciting: EVERYBODY CAN BE A PRODUCER. The thing about technology becoming so readily available to everyone to create music, is it gives the people who generally didn't have an avenue to create to put their music out and show the world. I personally benefitted a lot from this aspect. Furthermore the need for a label is slowly diminishing. Meaning, artists can now make a sustainable living off being independent. See Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.
I don't think Spotify or similar companies threaten MY job. Because no matter what there will always need to be people who make the music that will be listened to.
Manager gets 20, booking agent gets 10, so shit after taxes me and ryan have seven percent, TO SPLIT! That songs on my workout playlist.
Honestly. A lot of what he says in that song is 100% accurate. I feel bad for artists nowadays :(
If the need for a label is slowly diminishing, do you think they will try to have more control over artist tours? I don't know how much they have, I've just always been told that artists only ever make their money from merch. So feel free to prove me wrong if that is not the case. Go look up what a 360 deal is.
But essentially yes. Unless you're a high name artist (Drake, Kanye, Lady Gaga, etc.) who owns most of their publishing and a large chunk of their royalties. I can tell you first hand, the industry is panicking with the internet and piracy (See RIAA suing EVERYBODY). As a knee jerk reaction, yes labels are moving towards controlling more and more of what an artist does.
Most people being shitty producers, however, make it hard for those of us who have talent and do it well to have any sort of credibility with a label. A-freakin-men.
Producers are a dime a dozen these days. Just like artists. It takes a special person to stand out and leave their mark.
Back in the day, we had garagebands galore, but it took a special person to stand out and leave their mark. Everything changes, yet stays the same. That was deep man. Have an up vote.
How do large labels generally look at more underground genres? Do you ever get bummed out because you really just can't stand the music you're producing, when you know that this person will make boatloads of money off of no talent? I haven't come across music that absolutely breaks my heart to make. I'm a fan of all genres and sub genres. Except country. Fuck country. Don't ask me why, but the twang just kills my insides.
But. I guess to try and answer your question. There are songs out there that I sit back and think "Uh...wtf is this shit?". In terms of a mechanical stand point.
I like to think of myself as a musician who holds a lot of integrity and love for music so when I see that stuff, I feel it devalues what I do.
What do you think would sound better, 100 duck-sized horses or 1 horse-sized duck? If we could line the 100 duck sized horses in a choir line, and have them attend weekly practices. We might have something.
Although, the 1 horse-size duck might have an amazing baritone.
I'll take the choir.
Edit* I'm a retard at spelling apparently.
What do you think about "trap" producers such as Southside, Lex Luger, Sonny Digital, etc. I know they are successful (plaques on the wall, radio hits, Grammy nominations) and I personally like the sound. But sometimes I feel like they are copy cats of each other, and sound way too much alike. Opinion? I'm hot and cold on trap producers. Their sound is too easily duplicated and they literally all sound the same. I'm usually good at picking out who produced one song, but with them, it's literally like they have the same project files.
I'll never knock their success, however. They're doing something right and appealing to the masses.
While I have you here, another question. Ever work with Mike Posner? No! But he's an amazing writer! Amazing singer. Definitely doesn't get the exposure he deserves. Him and Mason killed Bieber's Boyfriend.
Some respect for MDL! that's what I like to see. he is so dope.. murdered that NY NY beat. He's a really great guy honestly. I've learned about 85% of my craft through him.
That NY, NY beat was deadly.
He's an all around really talented guy. Check out his YouTube videos of him making beats in his dorm room at duke. Also, you mentioned that you use FL. I do too. What's the best way to switch up your drum styles. My music has been sounding kinda stagnant lately. I find myself using the same drum patterns and sounds in almost every project. How do you get those (I like to call em..) "J. Cole" drums outta FL? Ignore the step counter and start playing with the piano roll for making beats. You can make interesting drum patterns! Other than that, MIDI it up! Which is essentially the same thing, but with hardware.
Hell yea, love my midi. Creativity just flows so much better with the hardware. Thanks for all the input man. If you ever find yourself in Nashville TN hit me up. I won't kill you. Lol. That's the biggest stipulation I have for friendship. You have passed! Hahaha, sounds good my friend!
Do you play any instruments? Does it help you in the studio? Do you ever lay tracks or dubs for your projects? I taught myself to play the piano when I was 14! And yes! Immensely. With midi technology it's essential. I can literally play any instrument through my midi board. I do both, depending on the project/genre. Never try to limit myself.
What do you think the music of the future will sound like? More inclusive. Hip-hop doesn't take anymore talent other than being clever with words (and even thats a stretch for some artists). I think you'll see Hip-Hop transform into the one genre that transcends race, gender, orientation, etc etc.
Mechanically. I think it'll start to sound more and more electronic influenced. I think a lot of genre lines will be very very blurry within the next 10-15 years.
What type of car do you drive? Yesterday I was whipping around in a badass Mustang...on my great grandparents farm...it was a horse is what I'm trying to say haha.
And nothing special! I like to live unassuming, BMW 323i - 2008!
Also I was wondering about the process from music production to track release, do the artists choose from a range of various beats from the label producers (I think I read that somewhere) and lay down vocals on them or do you work with some of them collab style? For Hip-hop/R&B/Pop modern genres, you'd be hard pressed to find an artist who just doesn't get flooded with beats and just pick and choose.From either in-house or independent producers.
There are still a few great artists out there however who sit down with the producers and churn out really meaningful songs!
Oh ok. Not a problem, my friend!
How does a musician these days get signed up for a label? I've heard that they look more for image than talent. Building a brand around ones self is crucial. Basically. If theres something you can do that you think a record label would have to pay money to have done, do it before the come looking. You'll be more attractive to them. Build an image, brand, fan base, personality, sound etc.
TL;DR - Labels are lazy.
Who haven't you worked with, but would like to? Haha, I understood!
Sorry, awkward grammar. I would LOVE to work with Eminem. Would sacrifice a small Brazilian boy to get that opportunity.
Hi, I have a couple things to ask! 1) I use fl studio for everything , what vsts do you use? 2) Why Pro Tools over fl studio for mastering? 3) Would you rather fight 100 duck suzed Trinidad James' or 1 Trinidad James sized duck? 1) Magician never reveals his secrets. However. I'll tell you Nexus is a great tool. One of my favourite despite its commonality.
2) I originally just used it in the infancy of my career to help myself feel more professional. When it comes down to it, I honestly believe FL has the same power as Pro Tools if you know how to use it properly. At this point it's more habit and familiarity.
3) FINALLY. 100 Duck sized Trinidad James. When I was a kid, my parents always had a problem when we went to ponds where I'd chase and try and kick and punch ducks. I'm a seasoned pro.
Biggest up and coming producer in your opinion ? I love Clams Casino's work! Right now I'd say him!
Nice! I'll check him out. Have you worked with MdL ? He's a good friend of mine, actually!
As a producer, what do you actually "do" in the studio? You're obviously not the tracking engineer or the mixing/mastering engineers ... so what are you doing in the studio? Step 1: Sit down in front of keyboard Step 2: Put sounds together Step 3: ??? Step 4: PROFIT!
In all honesty, I make the music that you hear. Whether it be through playing live instruments, or synthetic sounds (mostly synthetic for me).
Thanks for the response. I'm a musician myself, though have never (and likely will never) get to the point where a producer becomes involved, so thanks for the clarification. 1) Since you're making the sounds/instrumentation, does that have any effecgt on songwriting credits? If so, what sort of litmus test exists for this (kind of hinting at the screenwriters' type deal)? 2) How does the role of a producer with a real band (think Mumford & Sons) contrast with that of a producer in your position (sorry if i'm assuming too much, but it seems you're a pop/hiphop/electronic leaning producer)? In modern music, you can get a song writing credit for simply being in the studio and saying "yeah that sounds good". It's all really messed up. Unless I'm asked, I never really delve into song writing duties. There's no real "test" that I'm aware of. A producer for a band, someone like Mutt Lange, kind of gives the band direction and ideas for the entire record. Where as I make individual tracks.
RE: #4. If you had said I-V-VI-IV I would have /threaded the shit out of this thread. Cheers! Hahaha, I knew that was coming. I debated saying it just to see the reaction :P.
Because of your success is it a lot harder to make genuine friends? Do you have a set core of friends you only go out with? Do you have a hard time trusting people now ? I try to stay away from telling people about my career until they get to know me. Me being in school, it makes it a lot harder. Word travels fast. I do have a great core of friends who have been with me since the beginning, they definitely keep me grounded and humble.
In particular, I find it hard to trust new women (I'm currently single because of this...ladies ;) ) as soon as a lot of them find out what I do, who I've worked with, my bank account, etc etc, it's like the crazy gene kicks in and they see me as a piggy bank.
However, I have met a lot of new people that are really cool and don't just like me because of my success and what I do!
It's definitely the catch-22 of this job.
Do you work in LA? No sir! I'll be there in January, however!
Nice! you just visiting or moving ? Studio session actually! I'll never move to the States. I've had the opportunity, but, I enjoy where I live now :D.
Yea, the city gets to be a little to much sometimes. lets grab a BEER! If you don't rape and kill me, I'm down. Inbox me, I'll keep you posted.
Do you ever think about making an album of your own? If not, why? Funny you should ask.
I'm in the process of finishing a full-length instrumental album! I've always wanted to create an album of my own and have always been fond of concept albums! Unfortunately I wasn't born with pipes to sing.
What genre of music ? Would you start doing sets ? It's a blend of a lot of genres. Very piano and orchestra based. Although I produce mostly modern music, I'm in love with orchestras! I'll be conducting one in LA this January!
As for sets. Maybe. One of my best friends is a DJ and usually when I have a new record, he spins it to test the record out in a live setting. That's about as close as I think I'll go to live sets!
Sound kinda similar to stuff I'm working on (though I'm sure yours will sound a lot more professional!). Is it going to be widely released, or is it something hat you can hook us up with a Bandcamp link or something? I'm sure more people than just I would like to hear it. It's under wraps at the moment, but, since the overwhelming response I've gotten on this AMA, I may begin to leak some of it over reddit to get a response ;)
So, I Dj mainly Electro House, and want to learn how to produce. I have purchased some midi controllers and am having a hard time mapping them etc. I know nobody that has any experience with these things, and i'm having a hard time teaching myself. What would you recommend I should do? YOUTUBE. Youtube is a godsend for up and coming producers.
Also how hard is it to get into the industry? It took me 10 years to sign have my first contract offered to me. 6 for my first placement. It's about persistence. I'd say it's as hard as making the NFL. You need to pay your dues and put in the work. There's no real set formula.
Also i forgot to ask, Did you go to school for this, or did you come up from Youtube? I went to school/still going to school for business (working on my second business degree currently) I was however accepted to 3 music schools in the US but chose to decline there offers for a normal education. Never regretted the decision! A lot of it has come from working with other producers, yes Youtube, and trial and error!
2 chainz (tity boi) has put his time in though, he's been around since Luda came out with dtp. Say what you want about his music (he has put out some good songs: Link to www.youtube.com ), he's no overnight success. Have an up vote for facts.
Have you ever stepped on someones toes to get where you're at right now ? I've always tried to maintain some sort of professional and friendly attitude in my journey through this industry. Have I sent very strongly worded emails to people, yes. Have I intentionally thrown someone under the bus to advance my career, never. That's just not the type of person I am.
Do you usually finish a song before starting another one? How long does it take you to finish a track for an artist ? At any given time, I have about 15 songs on the go. Some are for artists. Some are for my catalogue.
And honestly depends. Sometimes I get on what I call "Highs" and I can churn out 2-3 songs a day (not full mastered mind you).
Mood is a big factor for me. I find it hard to create something that i'm not in the mood for at that time. Does this ever happen to you ? Sometimes I can put myself int he mindset of what I want to create even with the external circumstances. But 95% of what I create is based on my current mood. If I feel like getting crazy, I'll churn out a nice party record. If I'm feeling in the dumps, I'll churn out a sad slow piano piece. Mood does dictate a lot of what I do. But it doesn't 100% control what I create.
Dude i just want to let you know. I took my pre work out like 30 minuets ago thinking i was going to the gym. Now i'm bouncing off the walls. I drank my pre-workout before each exam this semester. I wrote a 12 page exam in 45 minutes. I know exactly what you're going through. Best of luck sleeping tonight my friend ;)
Any chance you could check out my demos? I was also wondering what you you thought of MPC's or maybe using software for drums... Thanks! Link to soundcloud.com. You have some solid compositions here, my friend! The recording is a bit shotty, but as for content, there's definitely emotion and talent here. Keep it up!
MPC's? I've used a few MPC's in my days. They're great! If I remember correctly, Just Blaze still uses an MPC for just about every record he does. I primarily use software or synthetic drums, if you will. If you have the technological know how, and musical knowledge, a good producer can make fake drums sound like they were played live!
Thanks Man! I recorded it using a really cheap amp and garage band so that probably explains the extreme Lo-Fi sound... What software would you recommend for synthetic drums? Mostly VST's of Midi drums the Virus has a lot of amazing drums that I love to use. Other than that. Big name producers won't tell you this, but, you can find every kind of drum you want floating around the internet. After that, it's all about how you process them!
DAW of choice? FL Studio for actually creating the the work. Pro Tools for mixing and mastering!
My perceptions of music producers is they are all guys in the 50's with graying ponytails, a coke habit and drive around in sports cars. how accurate is that? Well. Very inaccurate. If you see me walking down the street or on campus, unless I'm wearing my watch, you'd have no idea I make music. I look like your typical athletic college kid.
100 duck sized horses or 1 horse sized duck? 100 duck sized horses.
Hello. This has been hugely useful for me. I'm a sophomore in the Production Studies in Performing Arts, Audio Technology program, at Clemson University in South Carolina. I'd love to be pulled into the studio world or the live sound world. Other than work hard and network like crazy, what tips do you have for me to get into the industry? Interning is always a good way to get a real look at what the industry is like. Other than that. Depending on what you wanna do, you need to build a brand around yourself and develop your own following. Eventually labels will come knocking.
1)Favorite salad dressing. 2)Top 3 artists who make/made great producers? ex-dr dre and the like. 3)Have you listened to any music by Allen Stone? He seems to break up the "bland talentless" bunch nowadays with some serious soul! 1) Thousand Islands 2) a. Eminem b. J.Cole c. the OLD will.i.am 3)Can't say I have!
, congrats on the awesome job! Second, I've been an amateur producer for about a decade now. I'm ready to take it to the next level and become a professional engineer. What do you recommend? Upgrade your home studio.
Get some high quality studio monitors. High-end computer. Solid mixing board (although not needed with a good DAW). Start beginning to try and master every major DAW.
And something I like to do. Especially now a days. To keep your ear sharp. Listen to as much mainstream music as possible and pick out the faults in the mixing and mastering. It'll help tune your own ear when you're working!
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