Lex Luger Talks Working On Kanye West, Jay-Z’s Watch The Throne

Lex Luger spoke to MTV.com about his upcoming work on Kanye West and Jay-Z’s Watch The Throne album. Take note that he first hooked up with Waka Flocka on MYSPACE and is now working with Kanye and Jay-Z. There is no wrong hustle as long as you hustle.

“In 2011, I don’t want to speak too much on it but Jay-Z and Kanye West working on an album and he’s really messing with me, so I got Kanye West,” said Lex, when asked what he’s serving up this year. “I’ve been working more with Fabolous. I’ve been working with everybody, a lot of people been saying that ‘Lex Luger only got that Waka sound’ so I’m trying to take it somewhere else because I do have another sound, and that’s where I want to take it for 2011.”

Lex Luger’s “Hard In The Pain” and “BMF” were two of Nodfactor.com’s favorite beats of 2010.

[props to HipHopNmore for the assist]

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Kanye West Unleashes “Monster” Video

When was the last time you saw a rap video that started with woman hanging from a ceiling by a rope? Bon Iver’s chant at the end of “Monster” “I crossed the line…I’ll let God decide…” takes on a whole new meaning after watching this macabre video from Kanye West’s appropriately titled Dark Twisted Fantasy. The clip for “Monster” features all of his co-conspirators (Rick Ross, Jay-Z and Nicki Minaj) in this b-boy remix of the grisly slasher flick “Hostel.”

(props to SlangRapDemocracy)

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DJ Revolution Interviews Mark The 45 King Producer Of Stan & Hard Knock Life (Parts 1 & 2)

Straight from “The Cut” DJ Revolution interviews Mark The 45 King, producer of Jay-Z’s “Hard Knock Life” and arguably the greatest story telling track of all time Eminem’s “Stan”. The story of “Stan” is an interesting one, he says he started shopping beats after getting released from jail on a weed charge and originally it was bought by Foxy’s brother for an artist named Pretty Boy. We should all thank God for intervening.

Part 1

45 King Part 1 from The Cut on Vimeo.

Part 2

45 King Part 2 from The Cut on Vimeo.

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Large Professor Talks Jay-Z Having The Tech On Tour, First Meeting Nas, & Working With Joell Ortiz

“I showed you your first tech on tour with Large Professor” apparently Jay wasn’t lying bout that. After sharing that brief story Large Pro goes on to talk about his first encounters with Nas, working with him on Illmatic, and them having recently recorded several joints together. He also speaks about the newer artists of today that he digs and wants to work with, Joell Ortiz is no surprise but Soulja Boy definitely is.

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DJ Premier Talks Nas Album & Jay-Z Collaboration & Blueprint 3 Snub

I don’t know about you guys but I’m tired of hearing about Nas and Premier doing an album. Until something materializes with that and Detox I’d rather hear nothing. To be quite honest I don’t think I’d want to even hear a Nas/Premier project anyway, I’m not a traditionalist in that sense and I think it would prob sound quite dated. I’d rather hear Nas put out a project that actually had some good production. Oh well, guess we all have our dreams, right?

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Kanye Boasts To Be Top Three Among Producers

During his sit down with MTV, Mr. West reveals that he has a friend “that didn’t realize I produced the last Jay-Z album”. If that’s not interesting enough he goes on to claim to be a “top three producer” as well as “top three in every field”. While some may argue about his status as a rapper or producer one thing is for sure, he’s never short on confidence.

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“So Appalled” Kanye x Jay-Z x Pusha x Swizz x RZA x Cyhi The Prynce

Well if you haven’t gotten it from another music blog yet allow Nodfactor to be your supplier of G.O.O.D. music this week. By far the track I like the most from all the Kanye releases. Def could’ve done without Cyhi The Prynce on here though.

So Appalled

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Conversations With DJ Toomp

Conversations with DJ Toomp from Who Is Ben Styles? on Vimeo.

Ben Styles recently had the opportunity to sit down with DJ Toomp. During their discussion Toomp revealed his thoughts on arguably this summer’s hottest producer, Lex Luger, working with Kanye on his new album, Jay-Z’s “American Gangster” and more.

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Lee Majors Talks Ricky Rozay’s “Free Mason”

BTS: Rick Ross - Free Mason feat. Jay-Z & John Legend from Duy Nguyen on Vimeo.

In this very brief clip Lee Majors of “The Inkredibles” gives a little background info on
how he got into producing and talks about the beat that turned out to be Ross’s
“Free Mason”.

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AUDIO: Jay-Z ft Lil Wayne - Summer in Brooklyn (Quincy Jones Cookin Soul Remix)

Brilliant reworking of Hello Brooklyn using the Quincy Jones classic, “Summer In The City.” I took a swing at this using “We Live In Brooklyn Baby” a while back. Check it out here.

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