Raekwon Talks Mobb Deep & Beats With Grind Music

While Rae was working on his “Shaolin vs WuTang” album with Sean C & LV he took a break from recording to discuss some of his favorite beats. He also stated some rarely known facts about Mobb Deep and who the original producer of the duo was.

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Bloggin 4 Beatz: This One Is For The Birds

Happy 2011! My first beat of the year (and in a very long time) comes courtesy of the Menahan Street Band, who many know because of how Sean C & LV flipped them for Jay-Z’s “Roc Boys.” The album Make The Road By Walking is really good and is great for just listening as well as sampling purposes.

My beat is made up of parts from two tracks “The Birds” and “Going The Distance.”

I could kind of hear Method Man over this one. Has a little menace to it.

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Sean C Tells D-Dot He Didn’t Like “The Benjamin’s” Beat

Skillz goes in for episode five of Hip-Hop Confessions getting Sean C and LV and D-Dot to spill their guts. In addition to Sean C sharing that he didn’t like “The Benjamin’s” beat when he first heard it, D-Dot reveals that Puff asked him to loop up DJ Kool’s “Let Me Clear My Throat” (Hollywood Swingin) for Mase’s “Feels So Good” and he wasn’t feeling it. But why am I not surprised?

Props to YHTN

Skillz presents: Hip-Hop Confessions ep. 5 from Visually Inklined on Vimeo.

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Video: Sha Money XL Interview w/ Sean C & LV

Sha Money XL tells Sean C and LV about having to wait a month to get his first MPC and his transition from Reason to Logic.

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VIDEO: Sean C Talks Beats, Moans & Groans With The Syndies

Grind Music’s Sean C talks about XXL’s Freshman 10 and his favorite beats of all time with the lovely ladies of Mayatheb.com

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iStandard Beat Battle NYC March 15th and 16th 2010

Yours truly will be judging on Tuesday with Dame Grease, Sean C & LV. If you’re in NYC (or within an hours drive) come through!

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VIDEO: Scram Jones Built His Studio Off Pharcyde Check

Scram Jones drops jewels on Grind Music Show on A-List Radio. LV cracked me up when he asked if Scram made beats to get girls, but Scram really drops some knowledge.

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VIDEO: Sean C & LV Remember Grandmaster Roc Raida

In part three of Nodfactor.com’s interview with Sean C & LV, the producers recount how they met the late Grandmaster DJ Roc Raida and their history with the X-Men/ X-Ecutioners.

Part 2 Sean C says Ghost’s “Barrell Brothers” beat was original meant for Nas.

“We told Puff we were in the studio for THREE DAYS with no shower…”

Like many producers I’d HEARD Sean C before I knew who he was. Back 1998 when Smiff-N-Wessun’s “Won On Won” video was bouncing in my TV speakers I remember loving the beat, but it wasn’t until years later that I actually peeped the credits to see who was behind it. (Steele may have mentioned it in my interview for Beat Down magazine but I honestly don’t remember.) Truth be told it didn’t even register with me who was behind Jay-Z’s “Cant Knock The Hustle” until years later because I was too busy screaming from my bicycle “money ain’t a thang!” Plus I was more consumed with the names I knew like DJ Premier and Clark Kent, (guess that’s whay dude named himself Knobody, huh?). And if you’d bet me a drink at the bar to name Big Pun’s DJ back in 1998 I’d be ponying up on some Hennessy pretty fast, but here is LV just laughing at all of us now.

Fast forward almost ten years and you can’t open a magazine, read a blog or listen to the radio without hearing about “Sean C & LV” aka Grind Music, the producers of Jay-Z’s “Roc Boys” (and about half of the American Gangster CD), Ghostface’s “Paisley Darts”, Diddy’s “I Am” and the list goes on.

So in Nodfactor.com’s first interview of 2010 we bring a multi-part sit-down with Grind Music. In this first clip they share how they started out together at Loud Records, the nuances of working with Jay-Z and the task master that is Diddy.

In subsequent parts they will be sharing memories of the late Big Pun and Grandmaster Roc Raida, as well as their thoughts on sampling, record leaks and what they are working on next. Buckle up.

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VIDEO: Grind Music EPK (Sean C & LV)

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GrindMusic T.V. in Studio from Talkeye on Vimeo.

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