Shawty Redd Makes A Beat

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"Shawty Redd (born Demetrius Stewart) is an Atlanta-based, Grammy nominated record producer, rapper, and songwriter. In November 2007, he gained fame when he produced "Sensual Seduction", the first single from multi-platinum rapper Snoop Dogg's Ego Trippin'. In addition to being a hit, it marked the official mainstream acceptance of this young producer’s return to a more complex Hip-Hop sound, one which borrows from other genres and utilizes a full spectrum of instrumentation. “In Atlanta, we were already known to do records like this, going back to the days of Kilo Ali and Raheem The Dream,” he explains “And everyone said that type of music wouldn’t come back in style. By Snoop doing it, he made it okay for everyone else to do it.” Prior to the West Coast co-sign, Shawty Redd, who always considered himself as much artist as producer, kept his more experimental tracks to himself."

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Lil Durk In The Studio With Young Chop

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"Tyree Pittman (born 1994), professionally known as Young Chop, is an American record producer from Chicago, Illinois, who is signed to Warner Bros. Records and Glory Boys Entertainment.Young Chop grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He started making beats when he was 11 years old. He was taught by his cousin. He later met up with rapper Chief Keef at high school, and went on to produce many of his songs. Chop has a production collective known as BandKamp which also includes beat-makers Paris Bueller, CTC Reaper, 12 Hunna, C-Sick, Smylez and Poo Mack.Young Chop is known for producing Chief Keef's songs "I Don't Like", "Love Sosa" and "3 Hunna", which earned him media attention."

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Bangladesh Shares The Many Ways A Producer Gets Paid

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"Bangladesh began producing beats in 1998, but his first big break did not come until 2000 with his production of the hit single, "What's Your Fantasy" for Ludacris, with whom he then worked with many times afterward. In respect to his name, he's said he chose the name Bangladesh because he describes his keyboard-centric production style as "Bangladesh: "

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AraabMuzik And Alchemist In The Studio

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AraabMUZIK and Alchemist are currently cookin’ something for the Slaughterhouse album.

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Hit Boy Shows How He Produced Beyonce's "Bow Down"

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"Beyonce Bow Down is a new buzz track to build anticipating for her forthcoming studio album. "Bow Down" is an R&B type of song, with a rap outro. It was premiered through the singer's Tumblr account."

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Just Blaze Gives A Tour Of "Stadium Red" Studio

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"Founded in 2007 by Claude Zdanow, Stadiumred is a New York City based Music and Entertainment Company built on the love of music, quality service, innovation, fun and a sense of making a difference. The brand includes the award winning production, recording, mixing and mastering studios in Harlem (Stadiumred | Studios), an artist management and development division (Stadiumred | Music), a marketing and events division (Stadiumred | Life) and a live concert streaming division (Stadiumred | Live)."

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How To Make Jahlil Beats / Meek Mill Style Beat (Fl Studio)

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"For 23-year-old Producer/Artist Jahlil Beats, creating music started as just a release from everyday pressures of living in Chester, Pennsylvania; a small, yet dangerous area that is all but 10 minutes shy of Center City, Philadelphia. And though he started at the age of 12, learning audio engineering concepts and building a passion for music under the guidance of his father & first cousin; as for becoming Hip-hop's rising super producer, it was sort of an after thought. That 10-year grind landed him with some of the hottest names in music, like Chris Brown, Lil Wayne, 50 Cent, Fabolous, Soulja Boy, Bow Wow, Diddy, Rick Ross, T.I., Diggy Simmons, Sean Garrett, Meek Mill, & more. Jahlil has now worked his way into becoming one of the hottest young producers in music."

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Timbaland Talks Carry Out With Justin Timberlake

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"Carry Out is a song recorded by American rapper and producer Timbaland for his third studio album Shock Value II (2009). The song features guest vocals from longtime collaborator, American recording artist Justin Timberlake. Timbaland and Timberlake co-wrote the song with Timothy "Attitude" Clayton, Jim Beanz and Jerome "J-Roc" Harmon; the latter co-produced the song with Timbaland. "Carry Out" contains metaphor alluding food to sex. Mosley Music Group, together with Blackground and Interscope Records, serviced the song to contemporary hit radio on December 1, 2009 in the United States, as the third single from Shock Value II."

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How To Make Hit Boy Style Beat (N*ggas in Paris)

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"Niggas in Paris (edited for radio as "In Paris" or simply "Paris", edited for album as "Ni**as in Paris") is a song by American rappers Kanye West and Jay-Z from their collaboration album Watch the Throne. It debuted at number 75 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on the week of the album's release.The song was sent to Rhythmic and Urban radio on September 13, 2011.The song has since peaked at number 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Kanye West's 14th top-10 single and Jay-Z's 18th making Jay-Z the rapper with the most top-10 hits.As of November 2012, it has sold 3 million digital units in the United States. The song won for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song at the 55th Grammy Awards."

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How To Make Young Chop Style Beat (Fl Studio)

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"Tyree Pittman (born 1994), professionally known as Young Chop and Young Chop On The Beat, is an American record producer from Chicago, Illinois, who is signed to Warner Bros. Records and Glory Boys Entertainment.Young Chop grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He started making beats when he was 11 years old. He was taught by his cousin.He later met up with rapper Chief Keef at high school, and went on to produce many of his songs.Chop has a production collective known as BandKamp which also includes beat-makers Paris Bueller, CTC Reaper, 12 Hunna, C-Sick, Smylez and Poo Mack.Young Chop is known for producing Chief Keef's songs "I Don't Like", "Love Sosa" and "3 Hunna", which earned him media attention."

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Est In 1989 - Mike Will Made It (Documentary)

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"Mike WiLL Made It, birth name Michael Williams, was born on March 23, 1989 in Marietta, Georgia, the youngest of three children with two older sisters. Mike WiLL's mother was in a gospel group, singing for Dottie Peoples when Mike was young, and, according to Mike WiLL, his uncle was an accomplished guitar player.Growing up, Mike WiLL was athletic, participating in a number of sports, including basketball, baseball, and football, with dreams of becoming a professional athlete.As a teenager, Mike WiLL first developed his talent for music by re-playing popular instrumentals that he heard on the radio while he and his friends would freestyle to them.In a number of interviews, Mike WiLL has mentioned, in particular, re-playing the instrumental for "Still Fly," a popular song by the southern rap group Big Tymers, on a makeshift Casio brand keyboard, and has also mentioned re-playing the song "Young'n (Holla Back)" by New York rapper Fabolous on production equipment at a local music store."

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How To Make Mike Will Style Beat (Fl Studio)

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"Michael Williams (born March 23, 1989), professionally known as Mike WiLL Made It or, in shorthand, as Mike WiLL, is an American music producer from Atlanta, Georgia.At age 14, Mike WiLL began to make his own beats on a Korg ES1 beat machine, which his father purchased for him as a Christmas present from local music store Mars Music. As Mike WiLL became more accomplished, he also began to use other production equipment."

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How to Make Justice League Style Beat

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"J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, which stands for Just Undeniably Some of The Illest Composers Ever, are a Grammy winning group of producers and instrumentalists from Tampa, Florida. The group consists of members Rook, Colione, and Kenny "Barto" Bartolomei. Most recently, they have been producing for Drake, Young Jeezy, Keyshia Cole, Mary J. Blige, Rick Ross, Nas, Jay-Z, Lloyd Banks, 50 Cent, Tech N9ne, Jay Rock, Yelawolf, and many other artists. The group takes their name from the DC Comics superhero team the Justice League. A trademark of a Justice League production is a female voice echoing the words "Justice League" twice at the beginning of most of their songs."

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Kanye West Flashing Lights Exclusive Tutorial (Fl Studio)

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"Flashing Lights is a song by American rap artist Kanye West. It was released on November 22, 2007, as the fourth single for his third studio album, Graduation. The song was co-produced by Eric Hudson and features R&B singer Dwele as well as additional vocals provided by Connie Mitchell of Sneaky Sound System.[1] The single's cover art was designed by Japanese pop artist, Takashi Murakami. The song is used in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV."

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AraabMuzik Interview (Exclusive)

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"Abraham Orellana, better known as AraabMuzik is an American hip hop record producer of Dominican and Guatemalan descent. From Providence, Rhode Island, he first rose to fame after showcasing his skills of making live beats and instrumentals on an MPC drum machine on the internet. Being known to use an MPC, he has the ability to produce rapid, rhythmic drum patterns as well as making melodies using various samples and other sounds all at once.[1] He has worked with artists including Cam'ron and Vado, The Diplomats, Hell Rell, Jadakiss, Busta Rhymes and Fabolous amongst many others."

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Exclusive Boi 1Da Showcase (Fl Studio)

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"Matthew Jehu Samuels (born on October 12, 1986), professionally known as Boi-1da , is a Canadian hip-hop producer from Toronto, Ontario. He has produced for artists and groups such as Clipse, The Diplomats, Drake, Kanye West, Eminem, Nicki Minaj, G-Unit, Kardinal Offishall, k-os, Das Racist, Lecrae, Nas, Bizzle, Talib Kweli and Saukrates, among others."

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Scott Storch Interview About Detox

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"Scott Storch (born December 16, 1973)is an American record producer. He produces hip hop music. His label, Storch Music Company (formerly Storchaveli Recordings) is responsible for signing Nox. He also has his own music production company called Tuff Jew Productions LLC which is published by Reservoir Media Management."

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Zaytoven Interview In Atlanta

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"Xavier Dotson, better known as Zaytoven,[1] is an American record producer out of San Francisco, California and was born in Germany on an Army base.[2] He was raised in San Francisco but later moved to Atlanta, Georgia. Since then, he has worked with Gucci Mane extensively, contributing at least one song on every one of his albums, and doing many mixtapes with him. He has also worked with other notable Atlanta artists, such as Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, Gorilla Zoe, Young Jeezy and OJ Da Juiceman, and Usher (for the singers top 40 hit "Papers"), and other non-Atlanta artists such as Nicki Minaj, producing hundreds of songs in total. He first started making beats for local San Francisco artists such as Messy Marv and San Quinn. "It was during his time in San Francisco did Zay reach his formative years. He learned to play piano, guitar and organ in the church choir and soon began selling beats to local Bay Area rappers."

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Shawty Redd Interview In The Studio

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"Shawty Redd (born Demetrius Stewart) is an Atlanta-based, Grammy nominated record producer,[1] rapper, and songwriter. In November 2007, he gained fame when he produced "Sensual Seduction", the first single from multi-platinum rapper Snoop Dogg's Ego Trippin'. In addition to being a hit, it marked the official mainstream acceptance of this young producer’s return to a more complex Hip-Hop sound, one which borrows from other genres and utilizes a full spectrum of instrumentation. “In Atlanta, we were already known to do records like this, going back to the days of Kilo Ali and Raheem The Dream,” he explains “And everyone said that type of music wouldn’t come back in style. By Snoop doing it, he made it okay for everyone else to do it.” Prior to the West Coast co-sign, Shawty Redd, who always considered himself as much artist as producer, kept his more experimental tracks to himself."

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Pharell In The Studio With Jay Z (Fade To Black)

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"Fade to Black is a 2004 documentary about the career of US rapper Jay-Z. It also features many other famous names in hip hop music. This live concert at Madison Square Garden was meant to be Jay-Z's final performance, as he announced his intentions to retire from the industry.

Fade to Black runs through some of the major parts of Jay-Z's Madison Square Garden performance while cutting to Jay-Z and his exploits and showing the viewers where his inspiration comes from."

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DJ BattleCat In The Studio - The Making of "Cali Iz Active"

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"Kevin Gilliam, better know by his stage name Battlecat, is an American hip hop producer from Long Beach, California.

He is well known for producing artists such as Snoop Dogg, The Game, Xzibit and Tha Eastsidaz along with a number of other West Coast rappers. His aesthetic is a progression from the early-'90s G-Funk sound pioneered by Above the Law, characterized by fat synth bass lines and soulful keys. He is also the concert DJ for Snoop Dogg.

In 2009, Battlecat produced a special song called "A Soldier Never Dies", dedicated to fallen Marine, Anthony Vargas. Battlecat is a legendary DJ member of the The Worldwide DJ organization, The Core DJ's. The music video was directed by Paolo Ongkeko and produced by Don Le. One of the video's leads was portrayed by Sonny Ayon."

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DJ Premier Interview (Art Of Rap)

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"Christopher Edward Martin (born March 21, 1966),better known by his stage name DJ Premier (also known as Preem, Premo, or Primo for short), is an American record producer and DJ, and was the instrumental half of the hip hop duo Gang Starr, together with emcee Guru. Born in Houston and raised in Prairie View, Texas, and Brooklyn, New York during his teen years, he has lived in Brooklyn for much of his professional career. Rolling Stone identified Premier as arguably Hip-Hop's greatest producer of all time.

The Source placed DJ Premier on its list of the 20 greatest producers in the magazine's twenty-year history,[3] while the editors of About.com ranked him #1 on their Top 50 Hip-Hop Producers list. He also made the "Finals" in the search for The Greatest Hip-Hop Producer of All Time by Vibe. He attended Prairie View A&M University."

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Dr Dre Interview (Art of Rap)

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"Andre Romelle Young (born February 18, 1965), known by his stage name Dr. Dre, is an American record producer, rapper and entrepreneur. He is the founder and current CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and Beats Electronics. Dre was previously the co-owner and artist of Death Row Records. He has produced albums for and overseen the careers of many rappers, including Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Knoc-turn'al, Xzibit, 50 Cent, The Game and more recently Kendrick Lamar. He is credited as a key figure in the popularization of West Coast G-funk, a style of rap music characterized as synthesizer-based with slow, heavy beats. In 2011, Dr. Dre was ranked as the third richest figure in the American hip hop scene by Forbes with a net worth of $250 million"

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Kanye West In The Studio

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"Kanye Omari West born June 8, 1977)is an American recording artist, record producer, film director and fashion designer from Chicago, Illinois. West first rose to fame as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records, where he eventually achieved recognition for his work on Jay-Z's 2001 album The Blueprint, as well as hit singles for musical artists including Alicia Keys, Ludacris, and Janet Jackson. His style of production originally used pitched-up vocal samples from soul songs incorporated with his own drums and instruments. However, subsequent productions saw him broadening his musical palette and expressing influences encompassing '70s R&B, baroque pop, trip hop, arena rock, folk, alternative, electronica, synthpop, and classical music."

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Bangledesh In The Studio Making A Beat

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"Shondrae Crawford, better known by his stage names Bangladesh and Mr. Bangladesh, is a Grammy Award-winning American record producer, disc jockey (DJ) and rapper, who was born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa, and now lives in Atlanta, Georgia."

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