Conversations With DJ Toomp
September 1, 2010
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.
Lee Majors Talks Ricky Rozay’s “Free Mason”
August 10, 2010
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”.
AUDIO: Jay-Z ft Lil Wayne – Summer in Brooklyn (Quincy Jones Cookin Soul Remix)
July 6, 2010
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.
Amen-Ra Remakes “Where I’m From”
March 10, 2010
Amen-Ra who first produced the track in ’97 for Jay on his “In My Life Vol.1″ project remakes the joint that Diddy selected for “Angels”. It’s that dirty money!
Ron Amen-Ra Lawrence Shows How He Made The Where I m From Track For Jay-Z
Young Guru Explains The Challenge Of DJing For Jay-Z
March 4, 2010
RapRadar.com caught up with DJ/Engineer/A&R Young Guru for a multi-part interview.
Gives some history of his DJing (which you should already know if you come to this site…)
In this clip he comes to Jay-Z’s defense from Cornell West and the Masonic rumors…
Watch all clips at Nahright.com or RapRadar.com
VIDEO: Mark The 45 King On Making Jay-Z’s “Hard Knock Life”
February 23, 2010
Legendary producer Mark the 45 King describes how he made the beat but didn’t think he’d sell it. As fortune had it, Kid Capri was spinning the beat from 45 King during a Jay-Z concert and Jigga heard it. Mark goes in on what mic he used and everything. Props to the French lady who did the interview.
Bloggin 4 Beats: Hello Brooklyn (Flow Ayers Remix)
January 6, 2010
I really miss Brooklyn. After living there my entire life I relocated to Queens seven years ago so that I could escape the scourge known as Alternate Side Parking. While you have to be from NY to truly appreciate the inter-Borough wars I’ll go on record to say that it ain’t been that easy. Brooklyn just has intangibles unmatched by any place I’ve set my feet or laid my head.
When I first heard Jay-Z’s “Hello Brooklyn” I couldn’t fathom why Lil Wayne was on this hook (even now actually). But if Jay could get an expat from New Orleans to sing my home boroughs praises I could only get but so mad (how Bleek feels is another story).
So after attacking a few other Jay-Z acapellas I took a swing at “Hello Brooklyn.” Staying true to my word association formula I sampled portions of Floetry’s “Hello” and Roy Ayer’s classic, “We Live In Brooklyn, Baby.” I was really tempted to chop Weezy’s hook out of the whole thing and use another vocal but I left it alone for now. Maybe in take 2.5 if I get hold of some Skyzoo Acapellas.
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Cookin Soul & Don Cannon present: The RED Album
December 27, 2009
Tracklisting:
Download Link:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4a2emm
Bloggin 4 Beats: Jay-Z’s “I Know” remix…
December 4, 2009
Posted this last year…bringin it back like a boomerang for Jigga’s Birfday….
Addiction is a bitch…sometimes literally. You spend so much time trying to recreate that first high. Sometimes you come close (again.. literally) and other times you lay there in the throws of futility waiting to come down enough to resume the chase. I am addicted to this beat shit, which makes it that much harder when I lose something. Yes, I fugged up big time.
“Run This Town” (Pri The Honey Dark Remix)
November 29, 2009
Remix by Female Music Producer, Pri the Honeydark. Yo, lemme find out there’s an acapalla for this out there. I’m on it! Check out Nodfactor.com’s interview with Pri RIGHT HERE.
