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For many, the word “Brooklyn” now evokes artisanal cheese rather than rap artists. The disconnect between brownstone Brooklyn’s past and present is jarring in the places where rappers grew up and boasted about surviving shootouts, but where cupcakes now reign. If you look hard enough, the rougher past might still be visible under the more recently applied gloss. And if you want to buy a piece of the action, Biggie’s childhood apartment, a three-bedroom walk-up, was recently listed by a division of Sotheby’s International Realty. Asking price: $725,000.
Go Brooklyn? Too soft.
If the industry started pushing underground music straight, then people would be like ‘Wow, hip hop is not dead. This is amazing.
(via WRB)
Many beatmakers use a method known as quantizing, which lets you perfectly subdivide electric drum-machine sounds into positions within a measure. From there, the pattern can repeat indefinitely as a loop. Dilla preferred to play beats on a drum machine by hand in real time. That allowed him to color his creations with a signature rhythmic sway: languorous, leaned back, landing just behind the beat. In some ways, it was a new paradigm for the swing rhythm that had been born in West Africa and grew up with jazz.
In other words, Dilla merged the analog and digital worlds to produce true sonic magic.
MED & Gangrene - Run It (produced by Oh No)
6,516 Plays
Source: SoundCloud / bangyahead
MED / OH NO / ALCHEMIST. BANG YA HEAD IV coming JAN. 2013.
Legitimately leaked so grab it via Stones Throw: http://goo.gl/AAHzG
![<a href=”http://gloof.bandcamp.com/track/6-letmeup-dnt-si-us” data-mce-href=”http://gloof.bandcamp.com/track/6-letmeup-dnt-si-us”>6. LetMeUp[dnt.si_us] by Knxwledge.</a>
The loop king Knxdrops yet another in his self-released Wrap.Taypes. seriesof white label remixes of random (but always awesome)rap verses, freestyles & sometimes just mere rap adlibs.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbi2mlB4wx1qcfisfo1_400.jpg)
If live gives you lemons, cut them, scratch them and put them in a beat.
