It’s happened to all of us before. You sit down at your laptop ready to cook-up, and nothing comes out. You get frustrated and wonder why you can’t create. That’s beat-block, and these are 5 ways you can beat...
An ongoing conversation in the Producer community as of late centers on whether or not it's okay for beatmakers to use loops or sample packs. For those who are uninformed, loops are pre-made arrangements of music (melodies, drum patterns,...
The foundation of Hip-hop music is sampling. When Grandmaster Flash & Kool Herc began DJing house parties in the 1970s they looped the most popular parts of the record while the DJ rocked to them. They probably didn't know...
With tech innovations making it possible to cook up from anywhere, producers and beatmakers usually spend time in the home studios making beats alone and that doesn't leave too much room for collaboration with... well, anybody. And while it's...
Following up on part one of our list of Best Trap Producers of All Time we are diving into part 2. While in the early 2000s the producers paved the way for what has now become the most prevalent...
While making music is a passion for many artists, few often find ways to realize their dreams in a way that financially makes sense for them. Instead of creating all day, they are forced to take a...
Before the 1980s, drum machines were expensive pieces of equipment that needed entire rooms to operate. By the end of the decade, these machines would provide the soundscape for some of the world's biggest artists including Michael Jackson, and...
Recently, producer Alchemist tweeted out that 87% of his beats are trash and that we only hear about 13% when all is said and done. While I personally can never say that I've heard a wack Alchemist beat it...
If there were ever a Mount Rushmore of Producers Dilla would no doubt have been carved onto it. Dilla is undoubtedly a producers', producer; and his sound has influenced some of the biggest artists in the world including Drake...
The other day producer Thelonious Martin posted a tweet about Lofi that sparked some debate in his comments:
https://twitter.com/KingThelonious/status/1263738077832531969
It got the team over here thinking... Are Lofi Hip-hop instrumentals gentrified boom-bap beats? The short answer is Yes. Before my Lofi hip-hop...
