production
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Your Overnight Success Is a Glorified Daydream
“Instead of following the herd of desperate producers trying to get on the radar of a legendary rapper like JAY-Z, why not just look for the next JAY-Z?”
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Serato Sample Challenge for $10k Closes Next Week
Who’s taking the $10k?
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Cheat Sheet: Every Sample Used on JAY-Z’s ‘4:44’
A breakdown of every sample on Hov’s No I.D.-produced 13th studio album.
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Mac Miller Cleared Sufjan Stevens Sample on “Donald Trump” For Free
“He didn’t know how huge it would be at the time.”
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Travis Scott’s “Antidote” Sample Cost Him 50 Percent of the Record
“It was kind of a weird process.”
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The Hip-Hop History of Willie Hutch’s “Brother’s Gonna Work It Out” Sample
The complete history of one of the best samples of all time.
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Meet Ken Lewis: Hip-Hop’s Max Martin
We sit down with a man working behind the scenes with the biggest artists in the world.
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We Need More Female Producers, But a Select Few Are Currently Making Noise
As gender continues to fade behind equality and the burgeoning notion of identity, the culture will eventually change.
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All 22 Producers on Wale’s “Summer on Sunset”
From DJ Mustard to Jake One, we linked with Wale to create a full guide to every beatsmith on his new summer anthem project.
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How a Norwegian Trap Producer Built a Career Outside the Music Industry
The internet’s opening up ways for producers to make music their full-time job that were previously unimaginable.
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The Best Songs That Didn’t Make The Album Because of Samples
From “Control” to the brand new “Grown Ass Kid,” you could make a classic hip-hop album from the dopeness that an uncleared sample killed.
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Oddisee’s Best Beats
With a new instrumental album out now, we break down some of Oddisee’s best beats.