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:Common Remembers J-Dilla
February 5, 2010
Sunday February 7th would have been James “J-Dilla” Yancey’s 36th birthday. The producer, MC and founding member of Slum Village succumbed to complications from Lupus on February 10, 2006. During his last days he and Common were roommates in California and in this clip the rapper/actor shares what made him so special.
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T-3 Of Slum Village Goes Through Beat Submissions
November 21, 2009
T-3 of Slum Village goes through submissions from producers for his next album and Young RJ gives some REAL sound advice. No pun intended. (ROTFL@ The Stewie Griffin slippers.)
And Billy Beats? You know Bink! done flipped that the same way for GZA YEARS ago, C’Mon SON!
DOWNLOAD: Waajeed – The Eternal Mixtape (R.I.P. Baatin)
September 6, 2009
GhostlyCast #26: Waajeed – The Eternal Mixtape (R.I.P. Baatin)
VIDEO: Black Milk Broadcast “R.I.P. BAATIN”
August 5, 2009
Words from Black Milk on the passing of his friend and colleague Titus “Baatin” Glover of Slum Village…
Baatin was the first to discover Black’s production talent nearly a decade ago, and they’d been tight ever since. On July 20–less than two weeks before Baatin’s death–the reunited Slum Village filmed a video for a new track from their forthcoming album “Slum Manifesto.” Black Milk Broadcast reveals some exclusive footage from the video shoot.
DOWNLOAD: Slum Village – Remember The Classics Mixtape
June 16, 2009
