All these people debating all of the time, “HARDWARES BETTER!” .. “NO, SOFTWARES BETTER!” .. who gives a fuck? Check out this nice mix of some VSTs and some hardware to boot.
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Very sick. Not all the time you get to see three producers of this calibre in the same place, especially all being interviewed.
01
Jul
Album Credits
Found this site.. that you may or may not have heard of that contains album credits for lots and lots and lots of albums. What are album credits? Album credits tell you who produced a track, who they sampled, etc. etc. Why is this important? Well it’s not, but curiosity gets the best of us sometimes and that’s when finding out this information is good. Check the site out here.
Here are the production credits for T.I’s next CD “T.I vs. T.I.P” due out in July. I can’t verify how accurate these are; they’re from Wikipedia. First impressions of the list are: No Toomp? Hmm. Wyclef Jean? I didn’t know he still did shit. Just Blaze - good. Mannie Fresh - He’s been out for a while, but he’s always been good at what he does. Eminem? Well.. let’s hope it doesn’t sound like the rest of them. Anyways, continue reading to get the list.
16
Jun
Nitti Interview: …?
“…they should make a law to ban sampling as then all the real producers would come out”
Yep. That’s a real gem Young Joc’s old producer Nitti dropped in an interview with Hip Hop DX the other day.
HHDX: Why do you choose not to sample that much? Is it a personal choice?
Nitti: Because it takes up too much time and to me sampling is not original. I don’t get impressed by no producer that samples a lot. To me you are taking something that was already a master recording and you are using someone else’s ideas from scratch. To me being a producer is coming up with something from scratch. Don’t sample nobody’s melodies, make your own. I get in there and make my beats from scratch all the way. I don’t get impressed by sampling Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, that is A, B, C shit to me.HHDX: When you say time I assume you mean for clearance?
Nitti: Yeah that takes both time and money. You know if you sample a record and Earth, Wind and Fire are sampled, they are probably going to look for 75% of that record and they actually deserve 100% as it is their record, as it is their song behind it. You took something that belonged to them that sounded good before you started recording it. I think they should make a law to ban sampling as then all the real producers would come out and until then all the producers that sample, I will respect them but they do not impress me as they are doing nothing new.
Who’s Nitti to say something like this? This is going to create quite the backlash, or at least it should. Does he not know where hip hop came from? Last I heard, it didn’t come from repetitive synths. But hey, every man’s entitled to his opinion.
16
Jun
Kanye West - New Songs
First off: Stronger.
I don’t know why I didn’t post this earlier, because I’ve been listening to this hard for the past little while, but this is off of Kanye’s new CD Graduation scheduled for release in August. It samples Daft Punk and is one of the most creative beats I’ve heard in a long time. Now when I say creative, I don’t just mean creative; I mean creative AND sick as fuck. It may not be for everyone, but it sure is for me. Haha.
And while we’re on the topic of Kanye’s new album, his collaboration with John Mayer Bittersweet was leaked a while ago. Quality track. Listen.
Make sure if you like an artist to buy the album. The Producer’s Den does not condone album downloading.
19
May
Beat Digging Documentary
If you have a free 30 minutes (or even if you don’t), check out this video. It’s gonna bring back feelings for you. It’s gonna make you want to hit up a record store and make some heat. Video with D.I.T.C, Beatminerz, and some bits from Mos Def and Common. Quality.
28
Apr
Ask 9th Wonder
9th Wonder has been receiving major attention in the past little while, capitalizing on the publicity he received from Jay-Z’s Black Album. We all knew him before that though, of course, being underground gangsters, due to Little Brother. Anyways, there’s a neat little feature on Hip Hop Game called Ask 9th Wonder. Even if you’re not a big 9th Wonder fan it’s still neat to see how other people are doing beats and their opinions on various shit. At least, I hope you find that interesting, otherwise I’m curious as to what the fuck you’re doing here, haha. So I recommend checking the segment out, and even asking your own questions if you have any.
I had to bring attention to this song for two reasons. First of all, it’s dedicated to the VA Tech situation, and is actually good and doesn’t seem like a marketing ploy, which is good. And secondly, as you could have guessed it samples Time After Time. Surprisingly, the beat is sick. I don’t know how the fuck that works, but it does. Anyways, go check it out at AllHipHop.com. (Scroll down the page a bit and you should see it)
