Month: December 2013

BustaRhymes Speaks In Depth About Upcoming Project With @QtipTheAbstract

Get More: Busta Rhymes, RapFix Live, Full Episodes   Busta Rhymes chopped it up with Sway on RapFix Live yesterday and spoke his mind about the upcoming project with Q-Tip dropping on December 12th….


The Lie That Fuels The Music Industry’s Paranoia

We’ve heard it for a decade now. “We’re losing more than half  our music sales thanks to digital piracy,” proclaims the music industrial complex. The problem is that the music industry has freaked itself out so continually over hyped-up numbers attributed to music piracy that it can’t tell the facts from the reality anymore. The…


Meet the Man Behind the Music of Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead

Thomas Golubić makes a lot of mixtapes. But instead of making them for roadtrips, friends or significant others, he makes them for Rick Grimes, Walter White, Jesse Pinkman and the funeral home of Six Feet Under. “Creating mixtapes is a small part of the music supervision process for a series,” said Golubić, a music supervisor…


J. Cole Says Kanye West Has The Right To Test Boundaries

North Carolina rapper J. Cole may not have watched fellow artist Kanye West’s hour-long interview with BBC Radio 1, but the Carolina wordsmith did comment on the interview based on a handful of clips he did manage to see. While speaking on Ye’s interview, Cole defended the G.O.O.D. Music rapper’s right to say and do…


Jenni Rivera Plane Crash Probe Cites Negligence, Irregularities Among ‘Series Of Factors’

The plane crash in Mexico that took the life of Latin music star Jenni Rivera and four members of her entourage was the result of a “series of factors” that could have included the age of the 1969 Learjet, the age of the pilot, and owner negligence in reporting problems with the plane’s operation before…


Jay Z Ranks Solo Albums

Let’s End The Speculation. Jay Z’s celebrating his birthday today and while looking back on his illustrious career, he ranked his solo albums from best to worst. Four classics? Sounds about right. 1. Reasonable Doubt (Classic) 2. The Blueprint (Classic) 3. The Black Album (Classic)…


New Beats Commercial Features @KendrickLamar Rapping Over @DrDre Production

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Using Ableton Push With Hardware Synths

This set of videos takes a look at using the new Ableton Push MIDI controller with hardware synths. In the videos, Ableton Product Specialist Jesse Abayomi demonstrates calling up presets, polyphony, after-touch and a some other functions that Push can perform with a variety of synths….


Kanye West’s Yeezus tour draws just 4,500 fans to 19,000-seat arena

Kanye West has been going hell for leather in the past couple of months, taking his interview tour from state to state while his Yeezus stage show tags on behind like the weird neighbourhood kid you just can’t shake off. On Tuesday night the Yeezus tour pulled up in Kansas City, Missouri, for a show…


The Breakfast Club Interviews E-40

Yea Me Too, E-40….