Sunday, December 18, 2011

J. Cole

I'm sure everyone is aware that J. Cole also produces most of his tracks (He produced/co-produced 13 out of the 16 tracks on Sideline Story). This link below is to a site that shows a production breakdown from the track "Return of Simba" that J. Cole produced (co-production by Elite). The beat is sick and samples "The Lion King" and two other tracks. Check it out.

Friday, December 16, 2011

Beat of the Week 12/16/2011

This will be the first beat of the week, to start it off I had to go with one of my all-time favorite beats by none of than Just Blaze. Just Blaze originally did the beat for Ghostface Killah but obviously he passed on it (don't know why). Jay-Z really goes in on the beat too just to make it a complete song. Just Blaze really did his thing with all his chops and slices from Tom Brock's "There is nothing in this world that can stop me from loving you." I put the link below as well, if you're anything like me I love to listen to original songs. Enjoy.


Wednesday, November 30, 2011

"40"

I came across this page on Noah "40" Shebib, aka the man behind most of Drake's beats and sound. The page talks about some of 40's techniques he uses and I just found it interesting. Check it out.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!! While we're all firm believers in no days off usually, everyone make sure they take time out today to visit and enjoy themselves with family and friends. This day is about being thankful, and if you have family or friends you should be very thankful for that. Everyone enjoy their day.....

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Finished

We've finished the mixtape and Q is mixing all the joints tonight. We're still going to release it sometime Friday and will be dropping the album art tomorrow. Keep checking back.

We said we were going to leak a track from the 90's mixtape so we decided to go with the intro. This was done by J. Dev and Portis, let us know what you think. Also, we finally finished all of the other 6 joints for the tape and we'll be releasing it Friday or Saturday. Enjoy the intro, feedback is always welcome.

Intro

Intro

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

90's EP update

The 90's EP will have about 6 tracks, we've finished 5 of the 6 already so we're thinking about dropping it on Friday. I think I'm going to leak one of the tracks tonight to give ya'll a preview.

Monday, November 21, 2011

90s EP

We will be releasing a Instrumental EP featuring all 90s music samples in the next few days, stay tuned......
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Welcome To The Basement


Our very first instrumental mixtape, Welcome to The Basement. Enjoy.

Welcome To The Basement by aportis06