To mark my valiant return to the blog, I thought I’d grace you folks with this video about how the artist, Girl Talk has utilized over 300+ samples in  his records and has managed to avoid being sued. I’m assuming that the majority of our viewers are sample based producers, so this should be some good information to know. Enjoy! [...]

Even though the title of this video is “9th Wonder Says Wonder Years May Never Come Out”, the subject of “The Wonder Years” is not the focal point of this video. 9th Wonder, who introduces himself as “Grammy-award winning producer, DJ, and intellectual” in the beginning of the vid, discusses where he wants to be in the future, and his [...]

Interview The Thizzler did with Hieroglyphics’ MC, Casual. This is what they had to say about it. Hit the jump to catch part 2. Hiero ya’ll! Hieroglyphics member Casual sat down with Em Dub in the cuts of Oakland and spoke on how he got into hip-hop, the formation of Hieroglyphics, his favorite beat that he ever produced, and more!

Interesting. Spotted this over at Kevin Nottingham‘s joint. It used to be when there was a remix there was a new beat, new producer, maybe some new rhymes. Have you ever noticed now with a remix theres new rhymes, maybe a new artist but the beat always stays the same?

People may have assumed from the variety of producers that Kanye is bringing in for his new album (i.e. Pete Rock, Q-Tip, Primo) that he may be bringing back the soul element of his hip hop back into his work. However, despite this, I kind of remained skeptical on whether or not Kanye was truly going to ditch the “808s [...]

For anyone who has been following my posts, you will already have heard some of this guys music. I came across A.P.B a little while back now and was feeling the stuff he was posting up to Soundcloud. I was especially impressed by his latest  project Calques which features some great electronic, atmospheric vibes. Anyway, I managed to get an [...]