Some songs that I have created started out as the worst records, but after some strong discipline, I just had to let go. I said to myself “it’s ok to make a not so great song”. Perfectionism isn’t a bad quality to have. I understand that when you are freestyle rapping you ...
Drake, Nothing Was the Same Year: 2013 After winning his first Grammy in 2013 for best rap album with Take Care, Drake revealed the title of his third studio album, Nothing Was the Same— telling MTV that it wasn’t “some straight rap album.” On his junior set, Drake challenges wha...
“Last Chase”). Many of these songs come with music videos shot at Milwaukee’s sweatiest Airbnbs, with all of the city’s dances in view. At the same time, a lack of safe spaces for young Black kids to gather has made the lowend sound hard to find in local clubs. “Parties is...
But both songs present masters of tone – seasoned artists with God-like control of their instruments, finding a cooked down, pure and distilled performance of what makes them two of the greatest rappers who ever lived. Thug takes his time over choral yearning and the somewhat morbid gong of...
- You can set the tempo/BPM by tap the screen thanks to specially developed algorithms. - Jam along your songs with real rhythm tracks instead of boring metronome sounds. - You can filter the loops at whatever bpm, genre, and measure you want. Then reach the rhythm in the style that su...
Today’s modern country sound really does take a lot of cues from trap production, you’ll hear trap hats and 808 claps in many party-oriented pop-country songs if you listen closely. Country trap artists to check out: RMR, Little Nas X ...
I remember feeling really proud. [Those songs] were like everything from '70s funk acts and metal bands like Death, to more contemporary artists. I put someLil Waynestuff and someThe Strokeson there, so we were trading musical sort of color swatches until we were writing the same thing. ...
with his "adopted son": Everyone from Russell Simmons toWyclef Jeanhas worked with Blow, and he has been sampled byNas("If I Ruled The World" is all but an interpolation of Kurtis Blow’s song of the same name), KRS-One and many others. In fact, more than100 songshave used ...
It sounds very rudimentary, but I will never forget the shocking moment of seeing the BPM of a sample automatically set in Session View mode, haha. It must’ve been a whole new world. I used all the songs that I previously thought would be too difficult to work with, even though I...
I’ve had drumpad 24 ever since I was a freshman in highschool, I’ve been making beats and samples in class since 2015, to see this app grown from only be able to download packs to recording your own songs and samples to making your own beats has been the craziest show of growth ...