Month: March 2012

Grammy Award winning producer Dawaun Parker on Maschine

Multi-platinum Dawaun Parker, who has worked with artists like Eminem, 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg and who is staff songwriter and producer for Dr. Dre’s Aftermath label, talks about why Maschine keeps him inspired.


Bei Maejor Makes Song out of Shoes

Bei Major stays creative when he constructs a beat using old shoes. This is the kind of creativity each one of you need.


News: Apple’s App Store Has 25 Billionth Download

March 5th it was announced that Apple finally hit its mark of 25 billion downloads from it’s App Store.


The-Dream Talks Working With Jay-Z and Rihanna

The Dream talks about writing and working for Rihanna and Jay-Z. Apply this in your life!


Scott Storch Making A Beat In The Studio

Scott Storch making a beat in the studio. He is one of the legends so listen in!


Quincy Jones, QD3 and More Talk Tupac (2Pac) and How His Music Was Going to Change

Devi Dev talks Tupac (2Pac) with Quincy Jones, Quincy Jones III (QD3), Tyrese Gibson, Andrew Young, Jeff Johnson and John Hope Bryant at 5MK (5 Million Kids) launch event. QD3 and Quincy Jones share their memories of Tupac and discuss how his music was about to shift before he got shot. Ive been told by…


Mastering Engineer Jonathan Wyner Talks EQ

Jonathan Wyner at M-Works.com. This time: Equalization (EQ). Wyner’s credits include David Bowie, Nirvana, Aerosmith. Very useful!


This Business of Urban Music

Mr. James L. Walker, Esq. and author of “This Business of Urban Music” drops priceless knowledge about the music game that any aspiring artist does not want to miss!


J Cole on Self Producing Cole World, Lost Ones, Jay-Z being hands off

Exclusive in-depth interview with J Cole! It starts with Cole talking about the title of the debut album “Cole World — The Sideline Story” and how it came about. The album has evolved from when we first interviewed Cole almost 3 years ago from having NO ID producing most of it to Cole producing most…


Dave Aron: On the Road with Snoop Dogg (2 videos below)

Check out Dave Aron, Snoop Dogg’s FOH engineer, as he demonstrates Waves MultiRack software for live sound, along with CLA Classic Compressors, SSL 4000 Collection, and other Waves audio plugins. Great stuff!