Producers
King I Divine – ‘Me From You’
September 7, 2011
New instrumental from producer King I Divine that he put up on his Soundcloud page. King I Divine is never shy about sharing his beats and you can check out him making beats on his Youtube Channel.Dope Work!!
Me From You by Kingidivine
Evidence – “You” (Video)
September 6, 2011
Evidence just dropped the single on the web with DJ Premier & it’s not even 24 hours before the video dropped. That’s wasup! Look for Evidence’s new album Cats & Dogs dropping September 27th. One of the many releases I’m looking forward to this year. Ev hasn’t let me down yet on any of his solo projects….
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Tags: CATS & DOGS, DJ Premier, EVIDENCE, YOU | 
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New Native Instruments Maschine Controller (Video)
September 6, 2011
Native Instruments has finally joined the ranks of every other company who has made a successful music production piece with the creation of the Maschine Mikro. When companies come up with a successful production center they follow up that release with a more affordable, inferior scaled back version of the successful piece. Like Akai with the MPCs 500 and 1000 this joint is smaller and has many of the same capabilities. Time will tell how this joint will fair in the market place tough.
– Haze
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Beats Per Minute with DJ Spinna (Video)
September 2, 2011
Flud Watches are back with their series dedicated to the producers and DJs out there. This time the lock down DJ Spinna to talk music.
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Exile – Intro to the Outro (Mixtape)
September 1, 2011
One of the dopest producers out there, Exile teams with LRG to drop this mixtape with features from Fashwan and DOOM. This joint has A LOT of good music on it. Check it out.
9th Wonder – “Band Practice I & II” + “Make It Big Remix”
September 1, 2011
9th Wonder let loose the first single plus a few other remixed gems from his upcoming album The Wonder Year that’s due to drop September 27th. Band Practice Part 1 features his former Little Brother bandmate & Foreign Exchange frontman Phonte alonside their homie DJ Flash while “Band Practice Part 2” features their long lost NC homie Median. Many people may not be aware that Median was supposed to be the original third member of what later became the group Little Brother before Rapper Big Pooh stepped in. 9th Wonder “the producer” transforms into 9thmatic “the emcee” on the bonus remix of his ‘Make It Big’ single that dropped earlier in the year featuring his fellow Winston-Salem patna Big Remo. Check out the joints below…..
9TH WONDER – BAND PRACTICE FEAT. PHONTE & DJ FLASH
9TH WONDER – BAND PRACTICE PT. II FEAT. PHONTE & MEDIAN
9TH WONDER – MAKE IT BIG (9TH-9THMATIC REMIX) FEAT. BIG REMO
Posted in Hip-Hop, Music, Producers | Tags: 9th Wonder, 9thmatic, Band Practice, DJ Flash, Jamla, Median, Phonte | 1 Comment »
Exile – ‘Tema Do Canibal’ Remix ft. MF Doom
August 31, 2011
LRG teams with Producer Exile for a mixtape dropping later today. Here is a remix from the tape featuring DOOM. Dope Stuff!
Young Guru Speaks On ‘Otis’ Video, Watch The Throne, 9th Wonder & Battling Just Blaze (Video)
August 29, 2011
Young Guru is in London talking about his early career working with 90’s R&B act NonChalant and Bad Boy Records in his pre- Roc a Fella career. They touch on a number of subjects in this interview.
Beats Per Minute: Evidence (Video)
August 23, 2011
Another installment of Flud Watches BPM series sitting down with producers and DJs talking about thier craft, next up Evidence.
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Illastrate aka Henny Loggins – “Ballers” Project Pat Remix
August 23, 2011
Dope remix by Atlanta based producer extordinare by way of Fort Wayne Indiana,Illastrate,under the moniker of Henny Loggins. This is part of a remix series that includes unreleased instrumentals along with remixes of various down south jams and top 40 radio hits.This is a remix of one of my favorite Three 6 Mafia member’s Project Pat songs, “Ballers” from his 1999 release Ghetty Green featuring Gangsta Boo.Peep the Flavor!
Ballas – Project Pat by Illastrate(Henny Loggins)
Isreali
Posted in Hip-Hop, Music, Producers, Uncategorized | Tags: Ballas, Ballers, Henny Loggins, Hip Hop, illastrate, Project Pat, Project Pat Remix, Remix | No Comments »
Oddisee – ‘Still Doing It’ feat. y.U.
August 22, 2011
Oddisee’s Rock Creek Park project drops at midnite August 23rd and here is another track from the project featuring his Diamond District group mate y.U. This track is an ode to The Blackbyrds original Rock Creek Park song and it slaps just like the original.
Producer S1 recreates ‘Murder to Excellence’ from Watch the Throne (Video)
August 18, 2011
Producer Symbolic One, who we had on our radio show about a year ago, takes us through his process when he created the Murder to Excellence track for Jay and Kanye. Dope beat!
Grap Luva – Work it Out (Snippet)
August 18, 2011
Shout out to Producers I Know for this one. Grap Luva is back with some new heat. This track is really dope and will be on a 7″ release from the MC/Producer.
Work It Out (Snippet) by Slice-of-Spice
Oddisee – ‘The Carter Barron’
August 16, 2011
New joint from DMV Producer/MC Oddisee from his new instrumental project Rock Creek Park which drops August 23rd on Mello Music. This is a really dope track that utilizes a great sample and live instrumentation.
Statik Selektah in the Studio (Video)
August 16, 2011
Video of Statik Selektah in the Showoff lab with Scram Jones and Termanology. Statik is currently working on Population Control his new album which comes out Oct 25th 2011 on Showoff/Duck Down.
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Beats Per Minute with DJ Nu Mark (Video)
August 16, 2011
Another installment of Flud’s Beats Per Minute series to promote thier new line, BPM, drum machine inspired watches. This time they sit down with Jurassic 5’s DJ Nu Mark.
Shade Cobain – Tears (Instrumental)
August 15, 2011
New joint from Pittsburgh’s own Shade Cobain. Dope beats presented by Them Fighting Words.
Young Guru Compares Dilla to Michael Jordan (Video)
August 12, 2011
Young Guru is one of few people that I check out all the time when he is interviewed. He is always dropping some knowledge, history, and always is humble and positive. Check him talking about Dilla among other topics.
Alchemist Speaks On Working As Eminem’s DJ, Producing For Slaughterhouse, & Supporting Local Music (Video)
August 10, 2011
While up in Montreal Canada with the Montreality crew one of my favorite hip hop producers of alltime, Alchemist, spoke on a variety topics at the moment. Alchemist speaks on producing for Slaughterhouse, how local television & radio needs to support artists more, his relationship with Eminem as his DJ, & more…..
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True Heads Episode No.3: Ski Beatz (Video)
August 10, 2011
Ski Beatz links with Chuck Barrett from LRG at Dame Dash’s DD127 art gallery to take 24 Hour Karate School with Ski.
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