March Madness is over, but the bracketology is not for producer fans. Vibe magazine has put together a bracket for the title of Greatest Producer of All Time. Vibe did this last year with the MC’s, which started alot of subliminal shots between artist, controversies in the press, arguments among fans, and even back and fourths with Joe Buddens and The Wu, which left Joe with a swole eye… All in the spirit of competition!…lol
Here are the bracket breakdowns and seeding:
MASS APPEAL
The Neptunes (1) VS will.i.am (16)
Timbaland (2) VS Polow Da Don (15)
Swizz Beatz (3) VS Dust Brothers (14)
Diddy and The Hitmen (4) VS Herbie Luv Bug (13)
Teddy Riley (5) VS Kay Gee (12)
Trackmasters (6) VS Larry Smith (11)
Jermaine Dupri (7) VS Irv Gotti (10)
Scott Storch (8) VS Lil Jon (9)
SOUL SAMPLE
Kanye West (1) VS The Heatmakerz (16)
Pete Rock (2) VS Cool & Dre (15)
Organized Noize (3) VS 9th Wonder (14)
Erick Sermon (4) VS Daz (13)
Just Blaze (5) VS Hi-Tek (12)
J. Dilla (6) VS 88-Keys (11)
Mark the 45 King (7) VS Salaam Remi (10)
No I.D. (8) VS The Alchemist (9)
BOOM BAP
DJ Premier (1) VS Bangladesh (16)
RZA (2) VS Rocwilder (15)
Marley Marl (3) VS Dame Grease (14)
Rick Rubin (4) VS The Beatnuts (13)
Jam Master Jay (5) VS Easy Mo Bee (12)
Large Professor (6) VS Q-Tip (11)
Diamond D (7) VS DJ Muggs (10)
Havoc (8) VS Da Beatminerz (9)
Just flipping the famous Notorious B.I.G song for fun, coming from the angle for all the music producers, with tips on beatmaking success
This wouldn’t be a production blog without talking about one of the greatest producers James Yancey, aka Jay Dee, aka J Dilla. While listening to alot of his work the past couple days I was thinking, whats my favorite Dilla beats?..that’s a hard choice. Not only because he has alot of work that’s top notch(released [...]
A proposed bill pushed by Representative John Conyers for radio has been causing an uproar for black radio, with protest for some artist for it, and most radio and industry people against it.
The bill proposes that radio must pay an upfront free to the artist who’s song are played.
As of right now, radio only has [...]
Are up & coming producer’s ideas getting stolen by the industry?
It’s a catch 22 when trying to come up in the ranks of the music industry, “How do I protect my work, without protecting it so much that it doesn’t get heard?” That’s the million dollar question that will make SOMEBODY a million dollars; it might or [...]
Clip of two Grammy winning producers chillin, chopin it up, trading producer war stories & being candid about the current state of the game.
9th Wonder: “It makes NO SENCE for anybody to have wack beats, tying to put ya boys on, instead of gettin some real heat”
DJ Toomp: “It ain’t a A&R’s job to pick [...]
This edition of the production master class is on Propellerhead Reason 3, and using ReWire to combine it into Pro Tools.
Since software production has broken out the last couple years, it’s alot of producers that want to collaborate all the software from different formats together, instead of workingin this program, extract out, then go in this program..ect
It’s nothing [...]
Kicking off my series of sharing alot of the free Vst, Vsti, RTAS, and various music making plugins and softwere thats out there to use.
A mechanic can never have too many tools…
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Up for download this go ’round is Sonicism Vintage Vocoder (click image above to download).
A nice effect to apply rototic sounds into whatever you [...]
He stopped using Fruity Loops!! That SELLOUT!
Lol..sike naw..jokes..
9th Wonder was one of the first producers to wave the computer production flag though, making Fruity Loops (now known as FL Studio) famous in the hip-hop & rap circles when he hit the scene as part of the group Little Brother in 2003.
9th went on to produce [...]
Brand new Eminem Leak
After releasing “Crack A bottle” in February, breaking the first week digital sales record with 418,000 downloads, Slim Shady just debut the offical video for the lead off “We Made You” from his upcoming Eminem Album ”Relapse”.
Cameo’s from 50 cent & Dr. Dre, along with spoofs of Kim Kardashian, Britney Spears, Bret Michaels, Sarah Palin and a gang [...]