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Hip-Hop Producers to have in your Radar [2021 Edition]
First, let's start with the one you're most likely to be familiar with... 1. Madlib If you like your Hip-Hop and know the name Madlib - good, you should. He's worked with MF DOOM (RIP), worked with Kanye West, He's worked with J Dilla, and he's worked with Freddie Gibbs. If you don't know any of those names - well, they're a great starting point before even beginning on the names on this article.
Julian McHutchisonPublished 3 years ago in BeatLove the Way You Lie Rihanna Part 2
LYRICS On the first page of our story The future seemed so bright Then this thing turned out so evil I don't know why I'm still surprised
Shannon KingPublished 3 years ago in BeatA short history of the flute
It is quite possible that something vaguely resembling a flute was “played” by Neolithic people thousands of years ago when somebody discovered that blowing across the hole at one end of a hollow animal bone produced an interesting noise. Discoveries that have been made of pieces of bone with what appear to be fingerholes bored in them would seem to confirm that early man had primitive flutes or recorders with which to make music.
John WelfordPublished 3 years ago in Beat'Flag'
James Taylor's ninth album, Flag, was once again produced by Peter Asher at the Sound Factory in Hollywood but the results were not as successful as sessions two years earlier for the previous album, the classic JT. Despite any credit points for the clever cover concept--the flag signal flag depicted is the universal symbol for "man overboard"--Flag was released to lukewarm reviews at best on May 1, 1979.
Sean CallaghanPublished 3 years ago in Beat5 Songs That Helped Build Me A Path Forward (Part 1)
“Where words fail, music speaks.”– Hans Christian Anderson Music has always and forever been at the forefront of my life and the unfailing safeguard to it’s immeasurable troubles.
Aaron PuckettPublished 3 years ago in BeatThe Story of The Stools
Rock music has a long history of confusing people. Perhaps its biggest casuistry and chicanery is tricking the record buying public into thinking an artist is black, and therefor “forbidden”, rather than just a sapless white guy.
Lance NorrisPublished 3 years ago in BeatBrit Awards To Go Ahead With Live Audience
The annual British music industry shindig, The Brit Awards, is all set to go ahead on May 11th and with a live audience as part of the UK government’s Covid Events Research Programme.
Paul ConneallyPublished 3 years ago in BeatMusic after the pandemic, according to renowned violinist Laura Giannini
The exercise of guessing what tomorrow's music will be like has often proved to be ineffective over the years. The futurists theorized a world in which music is made with noises. In a 1953 short story, The Preserving Machine, Philip K. Dick imagined a reality in which, intending to safeguard the heritage of classical music close to the apocalypse, a scientist finds a way to convert the scores of the great European composers into animals capable of surviving and defending themselves on their own...
Nancy FrancePublished 3 years ago in BeatWagon Wheel
By now many have heard the song made popular by once, Hootie and the Blowfish front man, Darius Rucker. To some the fact that Rucker jumped from pop-rock to the country genre in music may be more of a shock than the fact that he is not the penning artist of "Wagon Wheel"
Meko KaprelianPublished 3 years ago in BeatThe Story of The Stools
In March of 1953 a former army sergeant of mixed race, Fulgencio Batista, who had risen from poverty in Communist Cuba, finally came to power in that tiny island country by way of a coup d'etat.
Lance NorrisPublished 3 years ago in BeatMetallica Was Right? - A Personal History of Music Media From The 1950s To Today
My friend Royston posted a link to this blog post from KFMX (Lubbock's Rock Station) about the legacy of illegal downloading. It sums it up in a nutshell. Although I'm in two minds about the grammar , sould it be Metallica Was Right or Metallica Were Right. Anyway this post isn't about grammatical correctness it's about the whole music stealing thing , and where we are at today and why we are here today musically/ It's probably best to do it roughly in temporal order so I'll do it by decades:
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 3 years ago in BeatInside The Mind Of Nicki Tha Great
Poughkeepsie Born and New Jersey Raised Vocalist Nicki Tha Great has been living and breathing music since she could remember. For some, music is a hobby, or a pastime, but for Nicki, it’s a lifestyle and her greatest passion in life. Nicki Tha Great’s music carries a timeless feeling to it, and immerses the listener fully into the talented artist’s creative mind. Nicki delivers never ending innovative sounds accompanied with unmatched cinematic visuals, showcasing that this is Nicki’s world, and we’re just living in it.
Alaska GreyPublished 3 years ago in Beat