Roy Orbisonhad plenty of 60s hits to choose from, including “Oh, Pretty Woman” But we opted for “Crying,” which begins with a seminal line, familiar to those even who have never heard the song: “I was alright for a while, I could smile for a while.” The song is Orbison at ...
Ray Parker Jr.not only topped the Hot 100 for four weeks with his ode to New York's finest parapsychologists, he also picked up a GRAMMY. Just don't expect to hear "who you gonna call?" in the winning version: For it was in the Best Pop Instrumental Performance where "Ghostbusters"...
FMLcame with two lead singles,"F*ck My Life"and "Super," but it’s the latter’s grandiosity that stood out the most. Inspired by Sun Wukong, the mythological Monkey King of classic Chinese novelJourney to the West, the boisterous track blends Jersey club and bass drums into a larger-t...
As far as how I’m delivering the music, that has nothing to do with lowend at all. That’s just me. It’s my style on the lowend beat, and anybody from Milwaukee would say the same. There’s a lot of momentum in the Milwaukee rap scene right now. How is th...
Dot:One of the best ways to be profound is not to think you’re profound — just have a conversation like you would with your homies over a drink, a blunt, or a game. When being profound becomes your identity, you lose the potency of the wisdom. It’s really...
From Atlanta to Memphis to Detroit; from lightspeed Jersey club rap to diamond-hard New York drill; rap overflowed with energy again this year.
“Wait a minute, that ain’t how the West Coast rock!” The song shifts beats, and “Foe Life” emerges as a g-funk banger, the antithesis to the glossy beats and easy boom-bap of East Coast hip hop. Mack 10 and Ice Cube drew a line in the sand with this song, one that was...
and walloping East Bay funk. “Party’s jumping off on a Thursday night,” rap Terrible T, Lil’ P, and Sweet L.D. in tag-team style as an unnamed chorus of homeboys cheers them on. “The bass is boomin’ and the crowd is loud/We’re about to tear the roof off, yeah, Oak ...
Explaining the inspiration for this classic, Capehart said, “There had been a lot of songs about summer, but none about the hardships of summer.” With that idea and a guitar lick from Cochran, they knocked out the song in 45 minutes. It’s one of rock’s first great alienated-teen ...
The site offers MIDI drum loops compatible with all MIDI-enabled software, covering a wide variety of music styles from blues to Zydeco. They even have MIDI files specifically designed for the Beat Buddy. The selection also includes MIDI bass loops, each featuring matching drums for “A” and...