Black Milk F/ Royce Da 5′ 9 and Elzhi “Deadly Medley” [VIDEO]
August 23, 2010
Black Milk just isn’t playing fair. Royce and Elzhi on the same track is indeed uglier than Lady Gaga’s wardrobe and if this is the first video from Album Of The Year it damn sure is going to live up to the title. (spotted at Prefixmag)
“My shit is Martin Luther, your shit is Martin Lawrence…”
DJ Clark Kent Interview With Boundless NY [VIDEO]
August 12, 2010
DJ Clark Kent has Bow Wow going nuts in the new Lottery Ticket movie. Well, his sneakers do. But here the legendary DJ and producer spoke with Boundless NY about his early exposure to music and how it influenced his producing.
“The one thing that was cool in my house is that you were allowed to use the stereo. I used to sit around playing the 45s, sticking the 8-track in. That was the back bone of what I grew up loving. It’s funny cuz when I say I played the New Birth 8-track, one of the biggest records I produced, the song was on that 8-track. When I was learning to produce that was a song I always played because it was from my childhood. At some point I learned how to sample it properly and it became “Players Anthem.” But when I was seven and eight [years old] it was just a great record.”
DOWNLOAD THE DJ CLARK KENT Boundless NY MIX HERE
Boundless Radio Presents: DJ Clark Kent (Part 1) from Kellen Dengler on Vimeo.
In this part he talks about “acquiring” his first set of turntables during a blackout in 1977…
Boundless Radio Presents: DJ Clark Kent (Part 2) from Kellen Dengler on Vimeo.
Props to PleaseDontstare.com
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Dr. Dre and Eminem Cover Vibe Magazine
August 2, 2010
In the next issue of Vibe magazine I sit down with Dr. Dre. We chopped it up on the West Coast for about an hour and a half and honestly the last thing I wanted to talk about was Detox. While we did clear up some misconceptions about the mysterious album I had way more fun asking him about The Vibe producer tournament, Cuban Linx 2, meeting Dilla, working with DJ Khalil and what the heck he was thinking when he jacked Nottz on Snoop’s “Boss’s Life” (Yeah. I went there.)
We also talked about the album AFTER Detox. Yup, he’s already started working on it.
I also interviewed 40 and Boi-1da so you can pretty much say this issue was co-sponsored by Nodfactor.com.
Make sure to cop that issue when it drops and maybe, just maybe definitely I’ll have some outtakes here for more loyal readers.
Exclusive: Slum Village On J-Dilla’s Secret Beat-Making Formula
July 27, 2010
Slum Village’s “Villa Manifesto” is in stores today so I caught up with T-3 and Young RJ to ask them about some of those beats from the webisodes that didn’t make the album, the future of BR Gunna and to shed light on that secret J-Dilla beat-making formula that Ma Dukes told me about years ago.
You can see more of this interview at the day job.
VIDEO: Nodfactor Interview With J Cardim
July 15, 2010
J Cardim speaks to Nodfactor about his new mixtape The In Crowd, The “OG’s Theme” Detox leak and how he got started making beats.
VIDEO: 9th Wonder Explains “Go” Video Inspirations, Why He Started Rapping
June 28, 2010
Producer/DJ /lecturer 9th Wonder recently joined a long list of hip-hop producers who have picked up the microphone.
On his recent collaboration album with MURs, Fornever, he drops a verse on the song “Asian Girl” and on his artist Big Remo’s “Go” the Grammy winning producer spits, “coming through on the humble/ 9th Wonder beats make it thump like Rumble/I’m in the Soundwave, ask the Megatron Don…”
While on a recent visit to New York for an EA Sports “NBA Elite 2011″ event (9th scored the music for the latest installment of the basketball franchise) spoke with “9thmatic” and he explained the inspirations for the “Go” video and what made him decide to start rapping.
As you know I tend to split my interviews between the day job and here and best believe I have some treats coming from this interview.
VIDEO: PackFM and Tonedeff On Making “I F*cking Hate Rappers”
June 24, 2010
Had my peoples from QN5 Music, Tonedeff and PackFM, come through to discuss the making of the title track for “I Fucking Hate Rappers.” Tone really get’s into the details of how he made the beat and had me laughing my ass off the whole time.
EXCLUSIVE: Nodfactor Interview With Apollo Brown
May 29, 2010
Pretty much what the title says. While Apollo Brown was in town for his Fat Beats in-store we caught up with him for a really dope interview. In this first part the mad man from Michigan plugs his latest project The Reset and gets into how he started making beats on Windows Voyetra software and how he makes his remixes using nothing but Cool Edit 2000.
“I use Cool Edit 2000 with no multitrack…I have like 30 windows open..” – Apollo Brown
Chace Infinite: “DJ Khalil Is The Best!”
April 28, 2010
When Chace Infinite came by the day job to talk about GoodWoodNYC I had to ask him about his partner DJ Khalil. He gives just enough insight into Khalil’s process to hold us over until we get to speak with the man ourselves.
Also check out this interview Crooks & Castles does with Khalil about his group The New Royales and their up-coming mixtape, Freedom For The Brave.
New Royales pt. one from Crooks & Castles on Vimeo.
VIDEO: Nottz “Cars”
April 25, 2010
Here is the video for “Cars” the b-side to “Shine So Bright” from super-producer Nottz album, You Need This Music. Tell me if you’ve ever seen anyone lean out of a hooptie and scratch turntables before. Gotta love it.
