RZA Suggests Kanye & Himself To Produce Nas’ Next Album
August 5, 2010
Redbull Music Academy sits with RZArector during this year’s Splash! Festival. RZA tells us that he has been working on Kanye’s project and that him and Nas visited him in the studio while in Hawaii. He also adds that the Clipse were in the studio when he was there further fueling the Pusha T
GOOD Music rumors. Last but not least he compares hip-hop artists to being mutants, classic RZA.
VIDEO: Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA on Beats x iDrum
April 12, 2010
From SlangRapDemocracy
The Abbot of the Wu-Tang Clan speaks on the iDrum, the iPhone app he’s endorsing, and offers insight into his production techniques in general. Yeah, he started as a DJ. He’s still rocking that Roland MV-8800 though. Will this make jeri-rigging your iPad unnecessary?
Game Recruits RZA, Dr. Dre For R.E.D. Album All-Star Production Cast
March 23, 2010
MTV’s Shaheem Reid got Game on the phone to talk about the producers for his up-coming R.E.D. album.
“The only person I’m upset I didn’t work with on this album is DJ Premier. I feel his sh– would have been perfect for this all-star producer cast that I have. One Premier track would have did me just fine.”
Lost & Found: Raekwon’s “Ice Cream” Sample
January 20, 2010
Further proof that RZA is a Don…Props to HipHopIsRead
Parks And Recreation Is The Wu-Tang of Comedy
January 13, 2010
Roots drummer and television scholar Questlove proves the connection between Parks and Recreation and the Wu-Tang Clan with never-seen-before audition footage. (From FunnyorDie.com)
VIDEO: Rockwilder Talks About Stealing Switches From Dr. Dre
January 11, 2010
Props to VladTV
Superstar Jay & Ashlee Ray interview Rockwilder about the changes in technology, making beats for 50 Cent and the inspiration for the “The Rockwilder Beat.” He also says some interesting things about Jay-Z’s “Do It Again” being a 3-bar beat, (a tip he got from Q-tip) and stealing Dr. Dre’s switches from the beginning of 2001 on Xzibits “Front To Back.”
“I think every beat is like a science project, and I put it together for the artist…” -Rockwilder
“Front To Back”
VIDEO: RZA In Studio With The Black Keys
October 16, 2009
Our friend Ski Beats put us on to his work with the The Black Keys a few months ago and I just found this clip of RZA jamming with them on Hip-Hop Is Read. The hype is real. Watching RZA play guitar warms my heart. Make your own samples, dammit.
Who Is The Best Producer On The Mic?
August 2, 2009
In this clip The Alchemist, a very dope producer who dabbles in the MC lane (pick up Chemical Warfare on July 7th!) gives his favorite rapping producers. Watch his list and leave a comment with your favorites!
Alchemist Top 12 Rapping Producers from Jerry Barrow on Vimeo.
CD REVIEW: GZA/GENIUS “PROTOOLS”
August 22, 2008
“All I need is a beat with a continuous loop and the live vibe that’ll hypnotize like the flute…” –GZA “Alphabets”
Hooray, GZA has a new CD out. We all know he can spit, but how do the beats sound on a CD he had the balls to call Protools? [Read more]
WHAT THE WHATNAUT?? RZA AND NAS CAN’T BE STOPPED
July 9, 2008
Déjà vu is nothing new in the world of hip-hop samples, but it’s still odd to hear them used so close to each other. On RZA’s Digi Snax his first single “You Can’t Stop Me Now” makes liberal use of a sample by The Whatnauts “Message From a Black Man.” The cut was also previously used by MF Doom and Mos Def on “Anti-Matter” and “Undeniable” respectively. But hip-hop wasn’t done with it as Salaam Remi has put his hands on it for “You Can’t Stop Us Now” from Nas’ Unititled CD dropping next week.
The Whatnauts were a trio from Baltimore made up of lead vocalist Billy Herndom, Garret Jones and Gerald Pinkney. They released two albums Introducing the Whatnaughts: (Stang 1970) and Whatnaughts on the Rocks: (Stang 1974). One of their best known songs was “I’ll Erase Your Pain” which reached number 14 on the R&B charts in 1971. According to The-breaks.com it was sampled by Kanye West for the bonus cut “Late” from Late Registration.
