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Producer tags are cool. Hearing the rapper say the producer`s name inside the verse? That`s the real flex. 🎛️
Three receipts:
🎤 Kendrick stretches out "Mustard" on tv off (GNX). Mustard co-produced it and heard it when we did.
🎤 Killer Mike on Banana Clipper: "Producer gave me a beat, said it`s the beat of the year / I said El-P didn`t do it..."
🎤 Jay-Z on Blueprint (Momma Loves Me): "Primo laced me, Ski did too." DJ Premier and Ski Beatz, credited in the bars.
Long before liner notes went digital, hip-hop credited the beatmaker out loud.
Drop the best producer shoutout you know 👇
#hiphop #hiphopheads #producer #beatmaker #boombap #goldenagehiphop #kendricklamar #gnx #mustard #runthejewels #killermike #elp #jayz #djpremier #skibeatz #hiphophistory #hiphopculture
Marvin Gaye has a lead vocal on a 2001 rap single. He passed in 1984. The Green-Eyed Bandit found a way 🎙️
Erick Sermon was digging through a Midnight Love reissue when he found an a cappella demo of "Turn On Some Music." He built a beat under it. No sample flip. A duet with a ghost. 👻
"Music" went No. 2 on Billboard`s R&B/Hip-Hop chart and gave Marvin one last posthumous Top 40 hit. 📈
The album dropped Oct 30, 2001, with Redman, Keith Murray, LL Cool J and Scarface pulling up. 🔥
25 years later, still a masterclass in the dig. Full story via link in bio.
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#hiphop #hiphopheads #hiphopculture #rap #ericksermon #epmd #marvingaye #defsquad #redman #goldenagehiphop #boombap #hiphophistory #realhiphop #2000shiphop #customcreative
Before streaming, hip-hop lived on cassettes cut live from vinyl and sold off folding tables on New York blocks. 📼
Late `80s club DJs like Kid Capri and Brucie B sold their live sets hand to hand. Ron G and Grandmaster Vic helped build the blend tape: R&B acapellas over hip-hop beats. DJ Clue had Biggie`s "Hypnotize" on tape before Life After Death came out.
Funkmaster Flex took the format to retail in 1995. Then in January 2007, police and the RIAA raided DJ Drama`s Atlanta studio and seized about 81,000 mixtapes.
Tape. DJ. Block. Which one did you play to death? Drop it below 👇
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#hiphop #mixtapes #mixtape #90shiphop #goldenagehiphop #hiphophistory #boombap #oldschoolhiphop #cassette #cassettetape #djculture #nychiphop #blendtape #realhiphop #hiphopheads #customcreative
A Motown lullaby, Mary J. Blige on the hook, and Ghostface telling you about a cold Staten Island childhood. Ironman at 30. 🎙️
October 29, 1996. Ghost`s first solo album hits stores and it`s barely a solo record. Raekwon and Cappadonna are on the cover, the Chef is on more than half the tracklist. Cuban Linx flipped around. 🔁
The jewel: "All That I Got Is You" lists Berry Gordy in the credits. RZA built it off the Jackson 5`s "Maybe Tomorrow." Hardcore rap almost never got that open in `96. 💛
No. 2 debut. Platinum. Full breakdown at the link in bio.
Stay creative.
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Ten years of Trap or Die 3, and the first beat on it belongs to the man who drew the original blueprint. ❄️
Jeezy closed out the trilogy on October 28, 2016. The opener "In the Air" is Shawty Redd, whose horror-movie synths built Thug Motivation 101 in 2005. He also made "G-Wagon" and "U Kno It." 🎹
D. Rich handled most of the boards. Mike Will Made It and 30 Roc teamed up on "Recipe." Wayne, Yo Gotti, French Montana and Plies all pulled up. 🔥
No. 1 on the Billboard 200, 89K first-week units, Jeezy`s third chart-topper. 📈
Full story plus Hot Boys, Mase and Psycho Realm deep cuts: link in bio.
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#Jeezy #YoungJeezy #TrapOrDie3 #ShawtyRedd #TrapMusic #AtlantaHipHop #ATLRap #SouthernHipHop #HipHopHistory #HipHopHeads #RapAlbums #2016Rap #HipHopCulture #DRich #CustomCreative #CustomCreativeStore
"They Reminisce Over You" exists because of one Mount Vernon crew. Heavy D & the Boyz built the family tree. 🌳
Living Large dropped Oct. 27, 1987, and the Boyz were the first group Andre Harrell signed to Uptown Records. The label that ran early `90s R&B started with the Overweight Lover. 🕺🏾
The credits are a crossroads: Marley Marl on the opener, Teddy Riley on most of the rest. Juice Crew boom bap and the swing that became new jack, side by side. 🎛️
The dancer Trouble T-Roy passed in 1990. Heavy`s first cousin Pete Rock answered with T.R.O.Y. with CL Smooth, one of the greatest eulogies rap ever made. 🕊️
RIP Heavy D. RIP T-Roy. Full story at the link in bio.
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The West Coast bounce in ScHoolboy Q`s records traces back to a man with a star-shaped bass. 🎸 Same birthday, too.
Bootsy Collins, born October 26, 1951. At 18 he was cutting "Sex Machine" with James Brown. Later he co-produced Zapp`s debut, home of "More Bounce to the Ounce," the talk box EPMD and Ice Cube both flipped. 🔊
ScHoolboy Q, born October 26, 1986, on an Army base in West Germany. His mom picked the surname Hanley at random. He didn`t take rap seriously until 21. Then Black Hippy, then Oxymoron at No. 1. 🌴
Two generations of funk, one date.
Full breakdown at the link in bio. 📲
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The most evil beats in hip-hop were built from jazz and soul records, slowed and darkened until they sound haunted. 🕯️
Shook Ones Pt. II (1995). Havoc took the piano from Herbie Hancock`s "Jessica," repitched it, and laid Quincy Jones strings on top. Queensbridge dread in one loop.
Mind Playing Tricks on Me (1991). Scarface produced it on Isaac Hayes` "Hung Up on My Baby." Paranoia over a soul loop, and a No. 1 on the rap chart.
Da Graveyard (1995). Buckwild on the beat, Big L leading a D.I.T.C. posse cut with a pre-Reasonable Doubt Jay-Z.
Drop the most evil beat you know in the comments 👇
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